Interview with Professor Ralf Beuker, Dean, University of Applied Sciences, Münster, Germany following his keynote presentation at the Cambridge Academic Design Management Conference held at the Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge in Septemb

Service innovation: Competitive advantage through new business models

Sep 29th, 2011 12m

Leading industrialists from all over the World discuss how to improve competitiveness, create jobs and boost their respective economies through learning lessons from pooling the experiences of public and private sector enterprises. Interviews w

Can there be a design of service?

Sep 29th, 2011 13m 41s

Interview with Dirk Snelders of Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, and Aalto University Helsinki, InternaConal Design Business Management following his keynote presentation at the Cambridge Academic Design Mana

Strategy and Design

Sep 29th, 2011 13m 39s

Interview with Jeanne Liedtka, Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, on the topic of her keynote presentation on Strategy and Design at the Cambridge Academic Design Management Conference held at the Institute for Man

Mark Champkins - inventor extraordinaire

Aug 23rd, 2011 17m 36s

Mark Champkins,Inventor in Residence at the Science Museum in London, and a former British Inventor of the Year talks to the IfM about how his career has developed from a love of making things as a child to setting up his own company.

Case study: Frank Dale Foods

May 6th, 2011 9m 46s

Nigel Cushion, chairman of Norfolk-based premium party food manufacturer Frank Dale Foods discusses how the company worked with the IfM small business team to help it through problems caused by its fast growth.

Professor Jonathan Linton: Research in technology management

Apr 13th, 2011 11m 48s

Jonathan Linton, Professor of the Management of Technological Enterprises at the University of Ottawa and chief editor of Techovation in conversation with the IfM's David Probert on current research trends in technology management and the futur

Getting Help with Open Innovation: Role of intermediaries

Mar 29th, 2011 13m 40s

The IfM's Dr Letizia Mortara discusses her research which looked at how firms seeking to develop Open Innovation skills seek help from numerous organisations offering assistance – from commercial and technical consultancies, to government depar

Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick speech at the IfM

Mar 23rd, 2011 11m 48s

The Massachusetts Innovation Economy Partnership Mission 2011, led by the State’s Governor Deval Patrick, was on a visit to Cambridge as part of a 10-day international tour. This is a recoding of Governor Patrick's address on the desire to form

Oliver Gajek - Building a Technology Startup in Germany

Mar 11th, 2011 19m 22s

Oliver Gajek, founder of Brainloop, discusses the lessons he has learned from creating a technology startup and the differences in entrepreneurial activism and support in Europe and the US.

Industrial innovation for local and sub-regional economic development

May 19th, 2010 14m 38s

David Marlow is a development economist who has worked at senior levels in the public sector for over 25 years. In this podcast he discusses a new IfM project exploring how cities and sub-regions might develop new models for re-starting economi

Creating an Open Innovation culture

May 6th, 2010 9m 52s

Interview with Ruth Thomson of Cambridge Consultants discusses the need for creating a culture for Open Innovation and the need for OI Champions.

Skills in Open Innovation

May 6th, 2010 11m 41s

Harry Barraza of Unilever's Open Innovation Group talks about the practical and technical skills needed for OI from the perspective of the multi-national consumer goods company.

Motivation in Open Innovation

May 6th, 2010 12m 36s

Interview with Roland Harwood of Innovation company 100% Open discusses the need for motivation in an Open Innovation environment.

Briefing: Manufacturing Footprint Strategy

Mar 18th, 2010 15m 30s

As global economies become increasingly interconnected, companies need to develop the most appropriate configuration of international manufacturing plants to maximise access to markets and strategic resources. Senior Industrial Fellows Paul Chr

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