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Senior Researcher, Big Innovation Centre
Email: breid@theworkfoundation.com
Telephone: 020 7976 3552
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Dr Ben Reid is Head of the Creative Industries programme at The Work Foundation and a Senior Researcher on the Centre for Workforce Effectiveness programme. His programme provides economic and policy analysis for the creative industries, focusing on maintaining the UK’s world-leading position in the creative industries in the light of changes being wrought by convergence, digitalisation and globalisation. He is also launching a major new research programme focused on organisations' innovation ecosystems and their implications for workplace change.
Prior to joining The Work Foundation, he was a research fellow at Henley Business School for nine years, where he led major commercial research projects in evaluation, management development and HR, and was a tutor on Henley Business School’s MBA and executive doctorate, the DBA. Ben holds a PhD in Business and Management from Henley Business School at the University of Reading.
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The Contribution of Advertising to the UK Economy For the first time, this report calculates the key economic impacts of the advertising industry on the UK economy. Expanding from direct impacts, it also explores the industry’s impact on outcomes such as innovation, growth and competitiveness.
Alexandra Albert and Dr Benjamin Reid 07 November 2011
I want a Catapult Centre I can print out at home In a world where you can download and print out a range of operational weapons at home, it is appropriate that today the Coalition government announced that one of the new ‘Catapult Centres’ (the entities formally known as Technology Innovation Centres) will be focused on technology transfer for the ‘Connected Digital Economy’.
Benjamin Reid 26 January 2012
Misfire: targeting potential high growth SME firms in the Autumn Statement The ‘vital 6%’ of high growth firms in the UK, it has been said, are responsible for up to half of new job growth. That 6% are, almost exclusively, Small or Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – at least when they start their growth spurt.
Dr Benjamin Reid 29 November 2011
IP freely? will the Hargreaves Review boost the UK creative industries? We welcome yesterday’s (18 May) publication of Digital Opportunity: a review of intellectual property and growth, perhaps better known as the Hargreaves Review.
Dr Benjamin Reid 19 May 2011
Leadership research at The Work Foundation Dr Benjamin Reid discusses the findings and approach The Work Foundation's research on leadership.
Dr Benjamin Reid 11 January 2012
Collaborating for leadership in the social sector Can positive social leadership come from anyone, anywhere? Can a focus on leadership development be maintained even in very tough times? Can the social sector use its own resources and expertise to develop leaders? Tough questions, no doubt.
Benjamin Reid 19 November 2010
Technology and Innovation Centres: In conversation with Dr Hermann Hauser The UK must develop a better system for transferring world-class science and technology into commercial enterprises or it risks falling behind many competitor nations...
Ben Reid 13 September 2010