There’s been a fair bit of chatter on the release of the global innovation index. It’s an impressive composite of many indicators of innovation and it thows out many interesting lists. According to the report, Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore are the most innovative countries and the Ivory Coast, Nigeria and China are the most efficient […]

I was in a meeting with a CEO the other day who is confronting the possibility that what sustained the business for the last few decades is probably not going to deliver growth for the future. Tim and I have been working with him for over a year and we both rate him very highly […]

Tim and I are on the road for a few weeks at the moment. I think Tim is in Rome and I am at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Judge is a very large business school and is usually placed in the top 10 of any business school ranking. Just for this week, […]

I’m probably going to get in trouble for this post because the answer to the title question is yes and no. I am employed by the University of Queensland which prides itself as being the most successful commercializer of research in Australia. However, I have never been convinced by the simple argument that univerisities matter […]

Ten years ago, Jim Collins published his book “Good to Great” to give exectutives an insight into what seperated leading companies from the mediocre ones. From a researcher’s point of view, the study is deeply flawed and would never get past the desk of a serious business journal. The biggest mistake is that it selects […]

One of the weird trends in spam comments now is that through services like mechanical turk people are getting paid to make marginally relevant comments that link back to some spammy site. This makes getting rid of spam a lot harder. However, while I was running through a recent batch, I ran across a comment […]

Innovation is a complex process and I’m always sceptical about simple solutions to encourage companies to be more innovative. Recently I have written about some evidence against the widely-held assumption that creating industry clusters will make firms in these clusters more innovative. It turns out the the relationship between industry clusters and innovation depends a […]