10Th Anniversary Publication
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10 YEARS OF THE CENTRE KiteFOR KNOWLEDGE,INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE ncl.ac.uk/kite 2 KITE | Knowledge, Innovation, Technology And Enterprise KITE | Knowledge, Innovation, Technology And Entrepreneurship 3 KITE: THE CENTRE FOR KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION, HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR IMPACT TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE Academics from KITE have been SITUATING SMALL COMPLEX PROJECTS involved in over 100 research projects BUSINESS REGULATION: PROFESSOR ROB WILSON over the past decade, and have helped As part the Innovative Manufacturing to influence thinking in business, HOW SMALL FIRMS Initiative, Learning across Business Sectors government and third sector bodies on UNDERSTAND AND programme, the ‘Complex’ project aimed to a regional, national and global scale. RESPOND TO understand the new requirements long- REGULATION (REBEL) term service-led projects posed for large KITE members contributed three Impact businesses and how best they could obtain Case Studies for the 2014 Research Research from members of the KITE (Manchester Metropolitan University), KITE’s objectives are to: the necessary capabilities to deliver and David Charles (University of Lincoln), Feng Excellence Framework (REF). team, in collaboration with a team from De • Drive Knowledge Exchange and manage complex, long-term projects. Li (CASS Business School) and James Montfort University, explored how small collaboration between practitioners The University offers a range of funding The research project ran for 18 months Cornford (University of East Anglia). firms understand and respond to different and academia in the areas of vehicles for collaboration with industry forms of regulation in a range of industries and was jointly funded by the Engineering Today, the Centre comprises of members innovation and entrepreneurship and civic society including ESRC Impact and contrasting regional contexts. and Physical Sciences Research Council from within the Business School, together • Understand and shape innovation funding and Innovate UK funded Knowledge (EPSRC) and Economic and Social The research, which was funded by with associates from across Newcastle and entrepreneurship through high Transfer Partnerships (KTPs). KITE has Research Council (ESRC). It involved an the Economic & Social Research University and visiting staff from a range of quality, impactful research and action a strong track record in programmes of interdisciplinary team of management, Council (ESRC), analysed the national and international organisations. engaged research and development. engineering and regional development • Support the development of more temporal and spatial dynamics of scholars and was established through a The Innovation Research group led by Neil effective socio-technical systems small firm regulatory behaviour. The following gives an overview of just a in response to complex business collaboration with three major organisations: handful of projects that have been led by “ The success of any and societal challenges The team worked intensively with twelve Clarke Chapman, then part of the Materials members of the KITE Research Centre: Handling Division of Rolls Royce, Alstom • Facilitate critical debate and theory Research Centre is down " Regulation shouldn't be seen as Transport, and Northumbrian Water. In 2006, under the leadership of David development within Newcastle University Charles, Newcastle University established to its people - KITE is in the areas of innovation and enterprise only a burden; it can be a core The research delivered a number of the Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Looking to the future – KITE will continue key themes for management: Technology and Enterprise (KITE) - bringing currently home to over competency of a professionally to lead the way in research of innovation, • The importance of design together Newcastle University Business 40 academic researchers entrepreneurship, information systems managed business that adds for maintainability School’s emerging academic research management and collaboration/ groups in innovation and entrepreneurship. from Newcastle University • The issue of integration partnership. Working with regional, real value" Professor Simon • Project risk Since then KITE has gone on to: with over 30 being based national and international businesses Down, KITE Visiting Professor and policy makers we will facilitate and • The importance of a shared ‘vision’ • Generate over £6million in the Business School.” support organisations in the modern world or understanding about a project. of research income high-growth firms from the North East and through creative academic thinking. The research culminated in a recent Alderman - including the e-business area East Midlands in the environmental services, • Engage in over 100 research projects monograph: Managing Complex led by Savvas Papagiannidis brings together Newcastle University, along with others bio-pharma, media and security sectors • Establish long-term relationships in Projects: networks knowledge and academics from within the Business in the North East and around the UK, for three years, investigating how firms the worlds of policy and practice integration, published by Routledge. School with an interest in innovation, is making significant investment in the actually deal with regulation on a daily basis. • Led to the development of 3 seeking to enhance collaboration and innovation agenda. Such initiatives can The project findings continue to attract The project also led to an invitation for the Master’s programmes – seeing promote innovation findings to a wide only succeed if we work in partnership. interest, particularly from policy makers team to participate in the EPSRC Rethinking over 1000 students graduate from audience, both regionally and beyond. such as the BRDO, HSE and the Project Management Network and the the collective programmes hosting of one the network meetings The Public and Social Innovation group Environment Agency who are seeking to Over the past decade KITE’s membership in Newcastle. The impact of the project led by Rob Wilson brings together people respond to the government’s Red Tape has included many alumni including over continues to be seen today and was the in the Business School, across Newcastle Challenge by creating better regulation 20 PhD students – a number of whom topic of a series of workshops - ‘Making University and beyond with an interest in Project led by Dr Paul Richter, Professor have gone on to have successful careers EMAIL ROB WILSON: Projects Critical’ - held at Newcastle the development of thinking and practice Simon Down, Professor Jane Pollard in academia across the world. Many of [email protected] University Business School in early 2016 in community and public service contexts. the Centre’s previous members remain VISIT: Project led by Dr Neil Alderman visiting Academics of the School and KITE, NCL.AC.UK/KITE and Professor Chris Ivory notably: Ian McLoughlin (Monash University, Australia); Simon Down and Chris Ivory FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: VISIT: (Anglia Ruskin University); Sue Baines @KITERESEARCH NCL.AC.UK/KITE/RESEARCH 4 Newcastle University Business School ncl.ac.uk/kite | @kiteresearch 5 SUB-SEA AND FRAMEWORK FOR JOINING-UP OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY MULTI-AGENCY INFORMATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS ENVIRONMENTS (FAME) HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Dr Fiona Whitehurst, a member of KITE AND PARTNERSHIPS since its inception, has been involved FAME is a Department of Communities The challenge of creating better in research over the last decade that and Local Government (DCLG) information sharing between health and has increased the understanding of the National e-Government project which social care has been a long standing subsea cluster in North East England. was specifically aimed at supporting interest of the members of the KITE. Subsea technology is used in operations the transformation of multi-agency A number of projects have sought from seabed to surface, often at extreme or partnership working in local to improve the process of joining-up depths and hostile environments, with government in order to provide better organisations and those working with applications across oil and gas; defence; public services, with a particular people with a range of health and SUPER-FUSING wave, tidal and offshore wind energy; emphasis on information sharing. underwater mining; and ocean science. social care issues. Research in this The project, which ran over four years, area was kick-started by Mike Martin Traditional approaches to mapping involved a set of English local authorities and Nick Booth’s involvement in the THE NORTH EAST regional clusters tend to prove ineffective and system suppliers developing and Durham and Darlington Electronic in identifying those based on emerging deploying multi-agency information Health Record project in collaboration DR JONATHAN SAPSED sets of technologies and markets. systems across the areas of health, care and with then local Strategic Health In the case of subsea and offshore social welfare. Led by Professor Rob Wilson, authority, which was part of the ERDIP technology, many regional firms were not Director of KITE, developed a Generic Programme at the turn of the Century conscious of the cluster they were part Framework for Multi-agency working and One of the outcomes of this piece of, but subsequently formed a cluster the learning and Evaluation work streams. Professor Sapsed identifies Newcastle as East that is capable of raising the issues organisation, Subsea North East. of research saw the development