IfM Briefings

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 September 2011.

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 with prominent speakers from “The Cambridge Service Alliance Service Innovation: Competitive advantage through new business models” Conference (www.cambridgeservicealliance.org) can be heard in the podcast documentary.

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 Management Conference held at the Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge in September 2011.

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 Manufacturing, Cambridge in September 2011.

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.

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.

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 future direction of the field.

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 departments, national and local development agencies, academic networks and university technology transfer offices. These organisations have come to be known as ‘innovation intermediaries'.

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 new research and business collaborations.

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.

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 economic growth and development through industrial, manufacturing and innovation policies

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

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.

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

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 Christodoulou and Don Fleet describe the importance of getting this right.