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A square peg in a round hole? A case study of whole life costing applications within sustainable procurement practices in the UK social housing sector (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ford, J., Phillips, W., & Cicmil, S. (2011, September). A square peg in a round hole? A case study of whole life costing applications within sustainable procurement practices in the UK social housing sector. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference, Aston, UK

The UK social housing sector is facing challenging times. The reduction in housing grant subsidy, the restructuring of affordable rent levels and the planned reforms of housing benefit under the Comprehensive Spending Review (HM Treasury, 2010) have... Read More about A square peg in a round hole? A case study of whole life costing applications within sustainable procurement practices in the UK social housing sector.

Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions (2011)
Journal Article
Rolfstam, M., Phillips, W., & Bakker, E. (2011). Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24(5), 452-468. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513551111147178

Purpose: Public procurement has been increasingly seen as an important innovation policy tool. One neglected aspect of the public procurement of innovation is, however, diffusion. The purpose of this paper is to counter this neglect by exploring how... Read More about Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions.

The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering (2011)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, J. B., Phillips, W., Johnsen, T., & Caldwell, N. (2011). The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 23(3), 213-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2011.550391

This study provides an insight into the difficulties companies encounter in transposing basic science into commercially viable healthcare technologies, focusing on the issue of establishing a dominant supply model within a highly regulated market. Th... Read More about The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering.

Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2011)
Journal Article
Phillips, W., Lamming, R., & Caldwell, N. Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach. Manuscript submitted for publication

Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.