• Creating Sustainable Innovation through Design for Behaviour Change: Full Project Report

      Niedderer, Kristina; Mackrill, James; Clune, Stephen; Lockton, Dan; Ludden, Geke; Morris, Andrew; Cain, Rebecca; Gardiner, Edward; Gutteridge, Robin; Evans, Martyn; et al. (University of Wolverhampton, CADRE, 2014-10-31)
    • Creating Sustainable Innovation through Design for Behaviour Change: Summary Report

      Niedderer, Kristina; Mackrill, James; Clune, Stephen; Lockton, Dan; Ludden, Geke; Morris, Andrew; Cain, Rebecca; Gardiner, Edward; Gutteridge, Robin; Evans, Martyn; et al. (University of Wolverhampton, CADRE, 2014-09-18)
    • From collapsed coal mines to floating solar farms, why China's new power stations matter

      Pouran, Hamid (Elsevier, 2018-09-19)
      Inauguration of the world’s largest floating solar power plant on a collapsed coal mine exemplifies China's commitment to transition to a low carbon economy. This 70 MW project covers more than 63 ha of the flooded area and can provide electricity for 21,000 homes. It also demonstrates China's ambition to amend its fragile environmental status namely air pollution, which claims 1.6 million lives every year. Soon after the completion, many countries expressed interest in building similar power stations, and within few months some companies released innovative products tailored specifically for improving the efficiency of floating solar power plants. China has a unique capacity to implement new ideas, scale them up and commercialise efficiently and now its self-declared war on pollution in 2014 seems to be reshaping the world energy landscape. China's plan to build 1 GW floating solar farms on abandoned coal mines present a stark contrast to the current environmental policies of the government of the United States. The innovative thinking behind these projects suggests that not only this country is taking the lead in renewable energies, but it is moving beyond speed, efficiency and mass production, and becoming a hub for innovation in green energy technologies.
    • Relationships between innovation stimulus, innovation capacity, and innovation performance

      Prajogo, Daniel I.; Ahmed, Pervaiz K. (Wiley InterScience, 2006)
      This paper examines the integration of the human and technological aspects of innovation management by modelling the innovation stimulus – innovation capacity relationship in determining innovation performance. The research framework developed in this study was tested amongst 194 managers of Australian firms. The survey responses indicate that both the relationships between innovation stimulus and innovation capacity and between innovation capacity and innovation performance are significant and strong. However, innovation stimulus does not show any direct effect on innovation performance, suggesting that its effect is mediated through innovation capacity. The overall practical implication that can be drawn from the findings is that to achieve high innovation performance, organizations first need to develop the behavioural and cultural context and practices for innovation (i.e. stimulus), and only within such conducive environments is it possible for organizations to develop innovative capacity in research and development and technology so as to more effectively deliver innovation outcomes and performance.
    • Removing the barriers? A study of the conditions affecting teaching innovation.

      Hockings, Christine (Routledge, 2005)
      In this paper I present my view of effective academic work as creating the conditions for effective teaching and learning and I explore the barriers to this faced by one university lecturer when he adopted a student-focused approach to his teaching. I compare the lecturer's perception of the teaching situation to the Teaching Environment Inventory factors, and discuss how institutional policies and practices designed to improve standards and efficiency within the case study institution inhibited those designed to improve student learning. In this respect academic leaders were often perceived to create rather than remove barriers to effective academic work. Finally I consider what can be done to improve standards and efficiency as well as student learning.
    • The determinants for sustainability of an employee suggestion system

      Lasrado, Flevy; Arif, Mohammed; Rizvi, Aftab (Emerald, 2015-02-02)