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Targeted Initiative on Innovation Projects
The Targeted Initiative will focus on four related questions exploring key aspects of innovation both in the UK and within an international comparative context. The main objective of the initiative is to promote and support world class theoretical, empirical, policy- and practice-oriented research in innovation.
Targeted Initative on Innovation Projects:
Chris Hendry - The 'Uncertain Middle':The role of demonstration projects and trials in influencing success
Mark Harvey - The Transition to a sustainable economy: Innovation and Expectations
A key aspect of the research is the collaborative partnership between social scientists in Essex and Manchester and the Bioscience for Business Knowledge Transfer Network.
Andrew Davies - Platforms for Innovation: Creating replicable product and service components for high value integrated solutions
To achieve success in international markets, UK-based companies are seeking to create and capture higher value by providing services in combination with physical products as 'integrated solutions' to the needs of large business or government customers.
China in 2007 is the world’s largest technocracy. The Chinese innovation system has its weaknesses but excels at the rapid mobilisation of resources. It is now at an early stage in the most ambitious programme of research investment since John F Kennedy embarked on the moon race.
The research will involve analysis of existing survey data (the UK Innovation Surveys of 2005 and 2007) and original surveying with responses from 300 firms active in instrumentation, electronics and electrical machinery.
This project is focused on combining two under-researched elements: First, despite recognition that innovation in services is distinct from manufacturing, there is still very little research on several sub-sectors, one of which is hospitality. This is especially so in the United Kingdom, which includes the hotel industry - accounting for between four to five per cent of UK employment.
Knowledge transfer is an essential element of innovation and lies at the heart of the United Kingdom’s competitiveness in the global economy. The relationships between higher education and business, which underpin this process, occur at the regional level and form the basis of unique capabilities, which evolve through time. The challenge, from the UK perspective, lies in the tension between growing awareness of the importance of knowledge transfer and the extremely limited tradition of close university-industry relations.
This research project will provide international comparison of trends in the location of inventive activity.
The objectives are to shed light on:
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The extent to which firms are relocating innovative activities offshore
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What the main determinants of firms' decisions are over where to locate innovative activity
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How the benefits from innovative activities vary when these activities are carried out in different geographical locations and the implications this has for policy in the United Kingdom and European Union
Jon Urry - UK-China Networks of Low Carbon Innovation
Tackling climate change is demanding international collaboration in innovation, yet there are significant constraints on such collaborations. This project is examining low carbon partnerships between the UK and China to identify the factors that promote and impede their success and the capacity for "disruptive" innovation on a global scale.
For further information relating to the Targeted Initative on Innovation Projects, please contact aim@wbs.ac.uk
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