IKON's key research themes are:

• Knowledge exploitation, integration and interactive innovation processes 
• Networking and innovation
• Knowledge and learning in project work
• Managing knowledge and organisational learning in project-based settings 
• Knowledge Management and innovation
• Managing knowledge work

Current Research Projects

Within these areas IKON's current research portfolio is focused on the following key projects:

• Evidence in Management Decisions: Advancing Knowledge Utilization in Healthcare Management

• Networked Innovation in the Health Sector (NIHS): Comparative Evaluation of the Role of Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)

• The Organisational Practices of Knowledge Mobilisation at Top Manager Level in the NHS

Recently Completed Research Projects

• The Management and Organization of Clinical Trials 
• Improving the Capacity of Healthcare Organisations to Act on Evidence in Patient Safety
• Understanding the Historical Evolution of Pharmacy Practice. A Cross National Study
• The role of Communities of Practice in improving business performance
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative Computer Game Development: Implications for Theory, Policy and Practice
• Knowledge Management Systems for Lean Healthcare
• The Evolution of Biomedical Knowledge: Interactive Innovation in the UK and US
• The Dynamics of Networked Innovation: Barriers to Knowledge Transfer

Previously Completed Research Projects

• Capturing Knowledge and Project-Based Learning: Managing Culture and Change in the Construction Firm
• Knowledge Management for Project-based Learning
• Power, Knowledge and Knowledge Management: A study of Interactive Innovation
• Networking for Effective Research: Developing and Sustaining Collaborative Alliances 
• Gateways to the Virtual Society: Innovation for Social Inclusion
• Knowledge Articulation and Utilisation: Networks and the Creation of Expertise
• The Role of Professional Associations in the Diffusion of Technological Innovation
• Knowledge Management and the Learning Organization
• Cultural Change in Construction: Developing the Client's Management Role to Improve Project Performance
• Knowledge Creation in Knowledge Intensive Firms 

Publications 

A list of all the publications and other outputs produced by IKON across its projects during 2006-07 is available here