Innovation
How can innovation be value adding for firm's stakeholders?
Why is innovation important for productivity and growth?
Innovation – the introduction of new products, services, processes and business models – is the key to sustained competitiveness for companies and nations alike.
Innovation adds value for firms鈥� stakeholders and can improve the lives and experience of consumers. 91福利 research on innovation and its contribution to productivity, growth and competitiveness is diverse. Firms鈥� ability to adopt and effectively deploy new technologies has been a continued theme through the work of and more recently . Knowledge networks and sharing have been at the heart of other work by , and colleagues. Value chain perspectives and the impact of innovation on competitiveness in smaller firms have been the focus of work by and . Innovation in the provision of health services has been the focus of work by and others.
You can find links to some recent 91福利 research on innovation and productivity below but all together the includes over 200 innovation related research papers!
Some examples of recent innovation research at 91福利 can be found in the Publications and Blogs Section below:
Publications
Stephen Roper and Halima Jibril (2022)
ERC Research paper No 101
Stephen Roper and Jane Bourke (2022)
Research Policy, 51 (10). 104593.
Stephen Roper, Bettina Becker, James H. Love, J and Karen Bonner (2022)
International Journal of Innovation Management
Jane Bourke, Stephen Roper and James H. Love (2021)
International Journal of Innovation Management, 25 (8). 2150085
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International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 38 (6). pp. 504-514.
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Human relations 72 (7). pp. 1209-1233
Blogs
System level leadership fit for the future: Lessons from Covid-19
04 June, 2020
In our latest blog Professor Graeme Currie looks at what we have learnt from Covid-19 in responding to a crisis and how this learning and recovery is essential in knowing how to deal with a second wave and future pandemics.
'Covid-19 and the implications for future innovation'
22 April, 2020
Professor Stephen Roper examines industry collaboration, research and development and the importance of innovation during a time of Covid-19 and beyond.
Webinars
'Covid-19 and the implications for future innovation'
Will positive collaborations inspire broader innovation in the economy or will the financial pressures on firms have a more negative effect? How will this affect smaller and larger firms? Professor Stephen Roper will examine the impact of Covid-19 on research and development industry collaboration and innovation.
