At the Edge of Innovation: Why shifts in the boundaries of innovation matter

History shows that the boundaries of innovation are constantly changing. It also suggests that those UK organisations that are able to successfully monitor, acknowledge and react to such changes, are more likely to survive and prosper in the long-term. The innovation cohort at the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research, in a series of wide ranging research projects, examined how these innovation boundaries – geographical, technological, and organisational – are changing and the implications of those changes for both practitioners and policymakers. Whilst not an exhaustive account of the work of the innovation cohort, this report highlights some of the group’s research findings, and the broader issues at stake regarding shifting innovation boundaries.