The ability to create a competitive and thriving economy is partly dependent onknowledge production and innovation. So how well is the UK performing in theseimportant areas? To assess the UK’s comparative performance, and gauge how itmight perform in the future, it is a useful exercise to...

It is all very well exhorting UK business to be more innovative, more competitive andto close the productivity gap with economic rivals such as the US. The problem is,approximately 40 per cent of companies in the private sector are owned by non-UKbased companies. In these cases the parent...

Organisational ambidexterity is the difficult act of balancing two diametrically opposedorganisational qualities – adaptability and alignment. Adaptability is about focusing onthe future. It is the ability to respond to change, to be nimble, to progress. Alignmentis about maximising the...

While scholarly research has produced a great deal of useful knowledge about various forms of innovation, there has been very little attention given to the dynamics of management innovation - the implementation of a new management practice, process or structure that significantly alters the way...

This paper aims at contributing to the existing literatures on multinational management, technological search and open innovation by providing a detailed account of the process through which large multinational corporations (MNCs) use technology scouting units to systematically search for new...