Our research focuses on enhancing innovation in all types of organizations across all sectors. This involves developing and delivering tools to improve the management of innovation within organizations and their suppliers and customers. Key areas of our work include technology strategy, start-ups and new ventures, business model innovation and impact evaluation.

Projects

African start-up industry mapping: Status quo and emerging trends in agriculture and digitalization

African start-ups are quickly becoming crucial to achieving socio-economic development to transcend the prevailing sustainable development challenges. Thus, there is an urgent need for innovative solutions to leapfrog development in [...]

Frugal Innovation Histories

This is a broadly scoped empirical study to understand how new ‘frugal’ innovations are developed bottom-up, and how frugality drives the product development process and the market creation process.