Joe Tidd - Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change

Joe Tidd is a physicist with subsequent degrees in technology policy and business administration. He is Professor of technology and innovation management at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, UK and visiting Professor at University College London, Cass Business School, Copenhagen Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management. He was previously Head of the Management of Innovation Specialisation and Director of the Executive MBA Programme at Imperial College, and Deputy Director and Director of Studies at SPRU ( www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/jtidd ).

He has worked as policy adviser to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), and as a researcher for the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which identified lean production. He has worked on research and consultancy projects for consultants Arthur D. Little, CAP Gemini and McKinsey, and technology-based firms, including American Express Technology, Applied Materials, ASML, BOC Edwards, BT, Marconi, National Power, NKT, Nortel Networks, Petrobras and Pfizer, and international agencies such as UNESCO. He is the winner of the Price Waterhouse Urwick Medal for contribution to management teaching and research, and the Epton Prize from the R&D Society. He is a director of MBA Authors Ltd, an academic services and licensing company. He is also Managing Editor of the International Journal of Innovation Management ( www.worldscinet.com/ijim/ijim.shtml ), the official journal of the International Society of Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) www.ispim.org/index.php . He has written eight books and more than 60 papers on the management of technology and innovation: scholar.google.com/citations?user=he2j1ugAAAAJ&hl=en .

John Bessant , who was originally a chemical engineer, has been active in the field of research and consultancy in technology and innovation management for over 25 years. He currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter and has visiting appointments at the universities of Luxembourg, Erlangen-Nuremburg, Queensland University of Technology and the National University of Ireland. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and served as a Panel Member in the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises in the UK. He holds Fellowships from the Advanced Institute for Management Research in the UK and the Schoeller Foundation in Germany and has acted as advisor to various national governments and international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the OECD.

He is the author of 15 books and many articles on the topic and has lectured and consulted widely around the world. Clients have included Toyota, Novo-Nordisk, Lego, Morgan Stanley, Coloplast, Corus, Danfoss, GSK, Grundfos, Hewlett-Packard and Kumba Resources.