Tanaka Business School lecturer wins AIM ESRC Ghoshal Research Fellowship

Dr Ammon Salter has been awarded a Ghoshal Fellowship from the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Dr Salter, a senior lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management at Tanaka Business School,  will investigate the way companies search for new innovation opportunities. One result of the study will be to gain a better understanding of managerial practices supporting the search for ideas, assisting successful commercial implementation.

Professor David Begg, Principal of Tanaka Business School, congratulated Dr Salter:

"Tanaka Business School prides itself on its world class reputation for research, and our Innovation Studies Centre is one of the UK's largest multi-disciplinary research groups focusing on the management of innovation.

"Similarly, AIM and ESRC both have an international reputation for providing high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government.

"But Dr Salter's fellowship is not just helping to deliver quality research. It is about producing research that is directly aimed at helping companies improve their business and become more globally competitive."

Notes to editors:

Dr Ammon Salter has a degree in Political Science from the Concordia University in Canada, and a DPhil from the University of Sussex. He has worked on major projects for business and government departments, including HM Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry and Ove Arup Foundation. He joined Tanaka Business School in January 2004, where he is now a Senior Lecturer.

The ESRC is the UK's largest funding agency for research and postgraduate training relating to social and economic issues. It provides independent, high-quality, relevant research to business, the public sector and Government. The ESRC invests more than £93million every year in social science and at any time is supporting some 2,000 researchers in academic institutions and research policy institutes. It also funds postgraduate training within the social sciences to nurture the researchers of tomorrow. More at http://www.esrc.ac.uk.. AIM is a multi-council initiative of the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) leading the way in collaborative management research and development.

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