Episode 2: Business Strategy for Innovation

How would you encourage innovation if you had a blank canvas?

Establishing industrial clusters can vitalise towns, cities, regions and countries.

In this episode, we explore innovation techniques with Dr Joe Lane using the 19th century pottery industry as a case study.

Dr Joe Lane is a Lecturer in Strategy at Henley Business School, University of Reading. Joe’s current research examines the organisation and evolution of historical industrial districts and clusters with specific focus on the role of knowledge and innovation and how they determine firm strategy. He is also researching the behaviour and strategies of co-located firms and their responses to fluctuations in the economic environment during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Reading List:

Joe Lane, ‘Secrets for Sale? Innovation and the Nature of Knowledge in an Early Industrial District: The Potteries, 1750–1851’ (2019) Vol. 20 Enterprise and Society, 861-906.