The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group (I&E Group) is the largest of four research groups at Imperial College Business School and is globally leading in its field. It is an interdisciplinary team of academics, led by Professor David Gann, linking Imperial College Business School with the faculties of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Medicine within Imperial College London, as well with numerous external academic institutions and industrial leaders.
At the heart of the Group is the Innovation Studies Centre (ISC) funded for ten years by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), to conduct research on the innovation process, from knowledge creation to commercialisation. The ISC was established in 2003 and encompasses the core research themes of the Group - Open and Distributed Innovation, Business Model Innovation, Systems, Services and Design, and Diffusion of Innovation. The Centre collaborates with internationally leading academic institutions in the UK and overseas and works with world class firms such as GSK, IBM, Arup, Laing O'Rourke, CSC and BP, disseminating its findings widely.
The I&E Group has two additional research themes, Strategic Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Innovation, not funded by the central EPSRC grant. As well as the core research projects, the Group has also attracted funding to establish a number of related Centres to carry out research into association innovation and entrepreneurship subjects. Finally the Group runs an extensive events and conference programme to disseminate the work of the Group to the widest possible audience.
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