Podcasts from the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group holds a range of talks, lectures and events during the year. If you weren't able to come to one of our lectures you may find a record of it here.

The eco cities of China, can they teach us a lesson?

19 November 2008
Joint Event organised by Friends of Imperial College, Ecocit, Imperial College Business School and Department of Civil Engineering

Peter Head OBE, FREng Director of Arup and Imperial Alumnus gives a seminar on global sustainability issues and urban development projects in China.  His seminar is followed by presentations from Ecocit Network members Dr Lars Frederiksen and Prof Nilay Shah and a panel discussion.

• See the pre-seminar interviews (137 MB)
• See the full seminar (584 MB

Platforms, Markets and Innovation Conference

2 June 2008 
The first-ever conference dedicated to the pioneering field of platform research was held at Imperial College Business School (formerly Tanaka Business School) on 2 June 2008. 
See highlights of the conference. (mp4, 19 MB)

Conversations on Innovation

Click on the links below to download the following audio files:
Innovation failures
What do we mean by innovation

The above 'Conversations on Innovation' are presented by Prof. Mark Dodgson, Director of the Technology & Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland Business School.

Managing Knowledge Spaghetti: Meeting the open innovation challenge

A workshop/networking event as part of ESRC Social Science Week.
Speakers:

• Professor Alan Hughes, Cambridge University and Director UK IRC 
  Professor Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College
  Professor Andy Neely, Cambridge University and Deputy Director, AIM
  Dr Markus Perkmann, Imperial College
  Chair: Professor John Bessant, Imperial College

More details
See the full seminar

IED Best Practicies

Growing the Leadership Team: negotiating the founder/manager handover

24 March 2009
The second event in the 5-part series: Beyond the start-up: Is there a 'best way' to scale up a venture?
Panelists:
Professor Nelson Phillips - Imperial College Business School 
Michael Anderson - Chairman, MedCell Bioscience 
Tom Allason - Founder and past CEO, eCourier

Listen to audio and view slides from this event