Lawrence Green

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University

This research proposes a prototyping perspective in design for business model innovation to facilitate disruption. The value of design-led approach for managing innovation has been recognised under the concept of ‘design thinking’. In the research on innovation, the concept of business model innovation has been discussed as business models started...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of alliance experience in firm innovation; it argues that, while cumulative alliance experience has a marginally diminishing contribution to likelihood of firm innovation over time, frequent engagement in alliances and an expanding alliance portfolio inhabit an enhancing role. This reveals ne...

The article addresses the role of ergonomic design in product innovation. Designers meet users’ needs by developing solutions to complex trade-offs—reverse salients—between a product’s characteristics. The fundamental ergonomic design challenge in portable computers concerns the reverse salient between two ergonomic factors: screen size and weight....

Addresses the issue of what skills and competences are required to maintain and improve innovation performance in Europe.The shift over previous decades, from primarily resource-based to knowledge based economies has changed and continues to change the kinds of skills and competences required to play their role in fostering innovation. Recent repor...

ServPPIN is a research project which focuses on the role of public and private services on growth and welfare and the particular role of public-private innovation networks (PPIN). Public-private innovation networks are considered to be an organisational platform in which public and private services can perform complementarities and synergies in man...

The importance of knowledge and research for innovation and economic performance in globalised and competitive economies is widely recognised. Knowledge and competences are partly embodied in people and, as a consequence, a flexible and transparent European labour market for researchers is widely viewed as highly desirable not only for improving em...

It is widely accepted that the acquisition, application and use of information and knowledge are crucial for creating and adding value in the global economy. As a consequence, the importance of certain forms of human capital and skills - especially problem solving, technical, communication and interpersonal skills, collaborative working - have incr...

The paper highlights the importance of design in product innovation, using portable computers as an empirical case study. This is an attempt to redress the balance in the innovation and product technology literature, which has overwhelmingly focused on hardware technologies (technical characteristics) of products. Principal components analysis is u...

The paper discusses the strategic importance of design in product innovation. Technological downscaling in microprocessors and storage media has decoupled the design and ergonomic features (size, weight, and user interfaces) of consumer electronic products from these technologies. Competitive advantage and product innovation focuses on the developm...