John Bessant is Director of Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Exeter Business School. He is Director of the EPSRC/AIM Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge programme

His areas of research includes the management of discontinuous innovation, strategies for developing high involvement innovation and enabling effective inter-firm collaboration and learning in product and process innovation.

For further information or to download the outcomes of the research conducted then please visit the ESRC website.

AIM Publications

• WP No. 009- Beyond the Steady State: Managing Discontinuous Product and Process Innovation

• WP No. 010- Developing Parallel Routines for Radical Product Innovation

• External Knowledge

• Deal with Discontinuity

• Intelligent Design

• Twelve search strategies that could save your organisation

AIM Projects

• Developing New Routines for Managing Discontinuous Innovation

• Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge

• Accelerating Diffusion of Innovation

• Discontinuous Innovation

• Innovating Routines in a Creative Industry: The US and UK Electronic Games Industry

• Measuring and Enabling Innovative Capability

Related Links

• University of Exeter Profile Page

• IPGC Website

For additional information relating to Professor John Bessant please contact him at j.bessant@exeter.ac.uk

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