• John Bessant

• David Gann

• Andy Neely

• David Probert

• Neil Burns

• Dennis Kehoe

• Hossein Sharifi

• Ammon Salter

• Elizabeth Garnsey

• Kathryn Walsh

• Erik Stam

• Simone Ferriani

• Simon Ford

• Nicos Raftis

• Linus Dahlander

• Markus Perkmann

• Sue Morton

• Fiona Reed

• Pablo D'Este

• Stavroula Michaelides

• Pietro Micheli

• Bassil Yaghi

• Surya Mahdi

  Projects Overview

In order to take this challenging research forward we are going to run a number of projects based at one of the partner universities:

High Tech Firm Growth Database
Location: Cambridge

High Expectations are placed upon new technology based firms as a source of economic and employment growth. This project focuses on their growth performance and how this is affected by interactions with the research institutions and universities. This will be achieved by building a longitudinal dataset which will provide parameters for comparing cases in terms of performance of their peers and to identify interesting cases and clusters for in depth analysis.

University Spin-Outs: Networks, Alliances and Business Models
Location: Cambridge

This project investigates the processes of spin out and growth of technology based firms from universities and research institutes and in particular the nature of networking and linkage building.

Generating Breakthrough Capability Building in Established Firms
Location: Cambridge

In the search for innovative products and services, established firms face the twin challenge of co-ordinating resources over geographical and business unit variation, while competing with agile and creative smaller firms. Many large businesses feel that their organisational approach to innovation has a tendency to rigidity, and the opportunities for innovation are being missed. In consequence, they are actively changing linking to the outside world. An interesting variety of routines and practices are being deployed by businesses in all sectors as they attempt to maintain a lead in product and process innovation. This project will investigate that variety of creative routines and practices, and extract general learning for firms seeking to develop/maintain the capability to generate breakthrough innovation.

Mapping University-Industry Collaboration
Location: Imperial College

This project focuses on the incidence, type and extent of university-industry collaboration and interaction in the UK. It will investigate the experiences of new and established enterprises, and how their use of universities may shape their innovative activities. It draws upon a range of Department of Trade and Industry, and Office National Statistics databases.

Open Innovation: Science-Industry Interaction
Location: Imperial College

This project will explore how science and industry are interacting in the context of more open, distributed and network based models of innovation. In order to innovate, firms source technology from a wide range of external organisations. To do this, they have developed extensive capabilities to connect and capture ideas from outside the firm. The research project explores this capability and examines different models and strategies for organising it inside the firm. The project will involve detailed case studies of GSK, IBM, Rolls-Royce and BOC and a survey.

Project Infrastructure
Location: Liverpool

This project will simultaneously develop the collaborative infrastructure for the IPGC research group and examine the role of such infrastructure in the enabling of University/Industry collaborations. The work will specifically examine the role of emerging e-science technologies in the knowledge creation and knowledge transfer processes and the research will provide demonstration facilities and a knowledge base for the impact of 'connected' communities.

The work will be undertaken in two stages and will involve both a 'technical architecture' and a 'user behaviour' component in the analysis. The work is intended to provide two very specific outcomes; firstly a working prototype which will be used by the IPGC team to demonstrate the technical features and business processes which will form part of the future interaction landscape between science-base and industry and secondly will examine specific knowledge communities (IMRC and e-Science Centres) to investigate the role and behaviour of information technologies in enabling interaction.

Overcoming Organization Resistance to Innovation and Productivity Improvement: A Psychological Perspective
Location: Loughborough

This project will research the issue of organisation resistance to new knowledge, innovations and productivity improvement. This research will involve in-depth case studies of industrial organisations that are coping with major competitive change. The research, building on theoretical concepts from industrial psychology and organization studies, will identify if there are structural, situational and/or competence issues that inhibit knowledge utilisation.

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