Who we work with

We engage with communities and stakeholders at international, national, regional, and local levels. Our research findings are relevant at every level of organisations, including boardrooms and beyond. Our research has a mission: to help leaders and managers create better futures by using research-based insights to strengthen entrepreneurship, undertake effective innovation management and build high-performing, agile organisations.

Work through academic partnerships

We are involved in joint research with internationally recognised research centres and academic institutions like

SPRU at University of Sussex, UK
Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management, UCL, UK
Centre for Accounting and Society, Business School, University of Edinburgh, UK
Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management, UK
CIRCLE, University of Lund, Sweden
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, UK
ESADE Ramon Llull University, Spain
HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
Institute for Employment Studies, UK
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the University of Manchester, UK
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic of Milan), Italy
Risk Institute at the University of Hull, UK
Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK
School of Business and Management in Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
School of Management at the University of Bath, UK
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, UK
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy
University of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
ZEW (Centre for European Economic Research), Germany

Work with large corporations

We have done joint research or provide professional services to large corporations, for example:

Abbott Laboratories, UK
Barclays Bank, UK
Cisco Systems, USA
Citibank, USA
Deloitte Economics and Strategy Group, UK
IBM, USA
Medtronic, UK

Work with Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and SME support agencies

We have worked with more than 6,000 SMEs in UK and abroad directly or through their support organisations:

De Punt, Belgium
Gray Dot Catalysts, UK
The University of Brighton's Green Growth Project, UK
Innovayt, Denmark
KiNNO, Greece
Lithuanian Innovation Centre (LIC), Lithuania
Moore Stevens LLP, UK
Oppidoc, France
PlatInn in Switzerland
The University of Brighton’s Profitnet and Profitnet Plus Programme, UK
Local Enterprise Office, Republic of Ireland
Seinwezen in the Netherlands
Scottish Enterprise in UK
SME Instrument programme, EU
Strategy Dynamic Limited, UK
The Platform, UK
Verhaert, Belgium

Support from policy authorities and research councils

We have been supported and funded by bodies such as

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK
British Infrastructure and Projects Authority, UK
Department for Business Energy Innovation and Science, UK
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK
European Commission, Belgium
European Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME)
Lewes District Council, UK
Ministry of Defence, UK
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK
West Sussex County Council, UK

Work with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

We work together with a number of NGOs such as

Association for Project Management (APM), UK
Center for Global Development, USA
Climate and Land Use Alliance, USA
European Crowdfunding Network, Belgium
International Federation of Red Cross, Switzerland
Project Management Institute (PMI), UK
Red Crescent network, Switzerland
TII, Technology Innovation International, Luxembourg
UNESCO, France