Reports
IfM People, Projects and Activities 2013
The Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) provides a unique environment for the creation and sharing of new ideas and approaches to modern industrial practice.
The Future UK Life Sciences Manufacturing Landscape
This report follows on from a study into the future of High Value Manufacturing (HVM) in the UK commissioned by the Technology Strategy Board and published in February 2012. One of the HVM study recommendations was that particular manufacturing sectors should be explored in greater depth. This report presents the findings from studies of the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors.
When Innovation Follows Promise - Why service innovation is different, and why that matters
This executive briefing authored by Ivanka Visnjic, Taija Turunen and Andy Neely from the Cambridge Service Alliance, looks at the process of service innovation in an attempt to improve the way that service and product-service providers develop new services.
Free
KT-Box: Improving the competitiveness of UK service providers through applying academic research
"Improving the competitiveness of UK service providers through applying academic research" is the final report from the Knowledge-Transfer Box (KT-Box) programme. The research reported was developed by six university partners, working on 10 major EPRSC research projects aimed at enhancing the impact of academic research to create and improve complex services.
Succeeding through Service Innovation
A service perspective for education, research, business and government
ISBN 978-1-902546-65-0
A landscape for the future of high value manufacturing in the UK
This study sets out to understand the global manufacturing context in which UK companies must compete and how that context is expected to evolve over the next 15-20 years.
Technology acquisitions
This research investigated the growing trend for companies to acquire technologies from external sources rather than using the firm’s own internal research and development activities.
Download free or £50 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-39-1
A review of international approaches to manufacturing research
This study explores international approaches to the support of manufacturing research, the prioritisation of research domains, and practices for translating new knowledge into industry.
Download free or £75 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-96-4
Organising for breakthrough innovation
This report provides companies with guidelines on how to improve their approach to the generation of radically different technologies. The authors describe the obstacles facing firms and their employees when attempting to make significant innovative breakthroughs.
Download free or £50 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-17-9
Getting help with open innovation
The report aims to help companies select the most effective source of help with open innovation. It describes the capabilities companies need in order to implement open innovation successfully and the range of assistance offered by different types of innovation intermediaries.
Download free or £50 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-91-9
Enabling economic growth: effective support for smaller manufacturing businesses
This report proposes that – with the right kind of support – small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have the potential to make a significant contribution to growth and employment.
Stimulating growth and employment in the UK economy
This report contends that much can be achieved by simply changing the emphasis of business support.
Future scenarios for the UK food and drink industry
This report highlights the challenges facing the industry as it looks to maintain the nation's food security against the combined effects of climate change, higher global demand for agricultural products and increasing pressure on finite resources.
Value of food & drink manufacturing to the UK
An ongoing demonstrable commitment to innovation and high-value production are key reasons why the UK’s food and drink industry has emerged from recession in better shape than many other manufacturing sectors.
Company spending on design: Exploratory survey of UK firms 2008
This report from the IfM's Design Management Group and Centre for Industry and Government provides a first ever evaluation of design spending in UK firms.
ISBN 987-1-902846-73-5
International design scoreboard: initial indicators of international design capabilities
This report from the IfM's Design Management Group and Centre for Industry and Government describes the generation of a framework for assessing international design capabilities. This framework is used to provide a first ranking of national design capabilities, using best available evidence.
ISBN 987-1-902846-74-2
Understanding China's manufacturing value chain
This report from the IfM's Centre for International Manufacturing examines opprtunities for UK enterprises in China and includes elected case studies in white goods, TFT-Liquid crystal display and pharmaceutical sectors.
Download free or £50 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-69-8
How to implement open innovation: lessons from studying large multinational companies
This report sets out to answer the question "I want to implement open innovation, where should I start and what should I do?" It provides an overview of existing approaches to OI and outlines how a company can start to implement a strategy to match the organisation's needs.
Download free or £50 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-75-9
Making the most of production
This report from the IfM's investigates the importance of production to companies and seeks to understand the long-term implications of moving production abroad or outsourcing production to other companies.
£50.00 plus P&PISBN 1-902546-29-6
Well dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the United Kingdom
This report produced by researchers in the IfM's Sustainable Manufacturing Group, sets out a vision of a sustainable clothes industry which at the same time would offer new opportunities to retailers and manufacturers.
Free plus P&PISBN 1-902546-29-6
Making the Right Things in the Right Places
Describes a structured approach to understanding and exploiting a company's international 'manufacturing footprint' - the location of its plants around the globe, what their roles should be and how they interact with each other.
Download free or £50 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-61-2
Towards a sustainable industrial system, with recommendations for education, research, industry and policy
This report calls for a collaborative effort by academics, teachers, industrialists and policy makers to create a sustainable, global industrial system. (25 pages)
Download free or £50 hardcopy plus P&PISBN 978-1-902546-80-3
