• Name

    von Stamm

  • First Name

    Bettina

  • Research Institution

    Bettina is hugely passionate about understanding and enabling innovation, particularly in large organisations. To follow this passion she has set up the Innovation Leadership Forum (ILF, www.innovationleadershipforum.org). The six legs on which she stands are teaching, researching, running a networking group, workshops & seminars, writing, and public speaking.

    In terms of academic background, she has a first degree in architecture and town planning and an MBA as well as a PhD from London Business School. In addition to numerous articles she has published two books, The Innovation Wave (2002) and Managing Innovation Design & Creativity, 2008, 2nd ed.; a third one on ‘The Future of Innovation’, co-edited with Anna Trifilova, is forthcoming November 09  (www.thefutureofiinnovation.org).

  • Area of expertise

    Innovation in large organisations,

    complexity and innovation,

    contextual factors,

    human-centred approach

  • Students going for a doctors degree

  • Contact

  • Relevant projects

    •    ‘The Future of Innovation’ global crowdsourcing project jointly run with Dr Anna Trifilova, Novgorod University, Russia, to elicit the dreams, hopes, visions, and fears in 500 words, of innovation experts on this topic; website: www.thefutureofinnovation.org; book forthcoming in November 09, Gower;
    •    Innovation Lab (formerly DILab); project initiated by John Bessant, launched in 2006, co-production between industry and academia of insights into managing discontinuous innovation; started with Denmark, Germany and UK, now running in 13 countries; see www.innovation-lab.org
    •    Bamboostones is a crowdsourcing initiative around sustainable innovation initiated by Philips, in collaboration with the United Nations University, the Innovation Leadership Forum, and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature); see http://bamboostones.net