• 2: About AIM
  • 2.1: AIM Fellows
    • 2.1.1: AIM Associates
    • 2.1.2: AIM Senior Fellows
    • 2.1.3: AIM Executive Advisors
    • 2.1.4: AIM Ghoshal Fellows
    • 2.1.5: AIM Innovation Fellows
    • 2.1.6: AIM Visiting International Fellows
    • 2.1.7: AIM Overseas Fellows
    • 2.1.8: Public Service Fellows
    • 2.1.9: AIM Research Fellows Network
    • 2.1.10: AIM Scholars
    • 2.1.11: Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge
    • 2.1.12: Productivity Ideas Factory Participants
    • 2.1.13: Targeted Initiative on Innovation
    • 2.1.14: AIM Services Fellows
  • 2.2: Governance
    • 2.2.1: Alan Alexander
    • 2.2.2: Mark Beatson
    • 2.2.3: Sue Cox
    • 2.2.4: Sandra Dawson
    • 2.2.5: David Gann
    • 2.2.6: Lois Jacobs
    • 2.2.7: Nicola Nicholls
    • 2.2.8: Vicky Pryce
    • 2.2.9: Roger Siddle
    • 2.2.10: Howard Thomas
    • 2.2.11: Peter Williams
    • 2.2.12: Jennifer Edwards
  • 2.3: Research Councils
  • 2.4: Fellowship Calls and Opportunities
  • 2.5: Staff
    • 2.5.1: Robin Wensley
    • 2.5.2: Andy Neely
    • 2.5.3: Anne Huff
    • 2.5.4: Mike Wallace
    • 2.5.6: Jacqueline Brown
    • 2.5.7: Claire Fitzpatrick
    • 2.5.8: Esme Foster
    • 2.5.9: Agnieszka Witaszczyk
    • 2.5.10: Hannah Sutcliffe
• 3: Our Research
  • 3.1: AIM Research Projects
    • 3.1.1: Projects relating to Productivity and Performance
    • 3.1.2: Projects relating to Sustained Innovation
    • 3.1.3: Projects relating to Promising Practice
    • 3.1.4: Business Engagement Project
    • 3.1.5: Projects relating to Excellence in the Public Service Sector
  • 3.2: AIM Management Research Fora
    • 3.2.1: Productivity Ideas Factory
    • 3.2.2: Grand Challenge
      • 3.2.2.1: Innovation and Productivity Grand
    • 3.2.3: AIM Innovation Directory
  • 3.3: Productivity and Performance
  • 3.4: Sustained Innovation
  • 3.5: Promising Practice
  • 3.6: Excellence in the Public Service Sector
• 4: AIM Publications
  • 4.1: Executive Briefing
  • 4.2: Working Papers
  • 4.3: Publication Order Form
  • 4.4: Academic Publications
  • 4.5: Andy Neely Publications
• 5: AIM Events
  • 5.1: Previous AIM Events
    • 5.1.1: Previous AIM Events 2008
    • 5.1.2: Previous AIM Events 2007
    • 5.1.3: Previous AIM Events 2006
    • 5.1.4: Previous AIM Events 2005
    • 5.1.5: Previous AIM Events 2004
  • 5.2: Forthcoming AIM Events
  • 5.3: Events in the Wider Community
  • 5.4: Calendar
• 6: AIM News
  • 6.1: AIM Media Centre
  • 6.2: Newsletter
• 7: Contact Us

Competing on Knowledge: The UKs Global Innovation Challenge

AIM's unique approach can make a significant contribution to the business, policy and academic arenas. We are committed to providing opportunities for academics, managers and policy makers to reflect on what they already know about creating successful and effective organisations and tacking key areas which require new collaborative research.

In recent years, "innovate or die" has become a cliché. Yet, as is usually the case with over-used phrases, it contains a substantial nugget of truth. Innovation is essential to business health and wealth - both for individual firms and national economies. In particular, innovation is linked to superior competitiveness and productivity.

Traditionally, the UK has been regarded as good at innovation - with many inventions and scientific breakthroughs emanating from within these shores. But the fact is that for many years the UK economy has underperformed in terms of innovation.

This Briefing draws on AIM's research to date. Taken together this research offers a glimpse of innovation in an increasingly globalised world.

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 Competing on Knowledge