Innovation

Our research approaches core questions of innovation in the context of industries and sectors being re-imagined and transformed.

We have a robust interest in social innovation and social entrepreneurship and conduct pioneering work on hybrid forms, processes, and logics. We engage with new questions in finance which explore new tools, products and conceptions of finance for social impact, and actively engage with social policy issues around impact and innovation. We support studies that overlap with colleagues in global strategy and international business on emerging value and commodity chains, on concepts like the ‘Circular Economy’, building institutional capacity in developing economies, and in responding to global ‘grand challenges’ in climate change adaptation, sustainability, Fourth Industrial Revolution governance and policy, and innovation policy.

Our research contributes to the lively, current conversation ‘Oxford on Strategy’, a distributed research and teaching initiative that has staked out an agenda for shared work among the faculty in the School. This strategy aims to open up questions about firms, as well as public agencies and civil society organisations, and seeks to define and animate studies of wider ecosystems. It attends to standard profit metrics, in addition to alternative metrics of performance which illuminate social good and commonwealth, impact, and sustainable performance.