Centre for Open Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK.

Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School.

Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (PREST)

ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC), UK

Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM)

Multi-institution ESRC led research institute with Sustained Innovation Research Stream, UK.

Open Innovation Research Stream, Institute of Technology Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Tanaka Business School - Innovation Studies Centre, Imperial College, London

Innovation management has become a mainstream activity in many manufacturing and science-based industries, where there is a substantial body of knowledge supported by academic research. Far less is known about how to manage and improve upon the processes of technological and organisational innovation in project-based and complex systems industries. The ISC focuses on the why, what and how of the innovation process in this type of environment.

Cass Business School, Centre for New Technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CENTIVE), London, UK

Key research theme is Innovation and Entrepreneurship, including research streams on large firm/small firm relationships in R&D and innovation, including alliances and entrepreneurial new forms of organization and knowledge development and transfer through inter-firm collaborations and alliances, and the industry-university interface.

For a comprehensive list of UK academic institutions working on innovation related subjects see the :

AIM Innovation Directory .