Innovation


The Innovation SIG provides a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers interested in advancing knowledge and understanding of the nature, processes, practices, and outcomes of innovation. The SIG intends to meet its obligations to BAM by providing value to the wider academic community with an interest in innovation studies.


About the SIG: The Innovation SIG aims to encourage and support collaborative networks that offer a safe space for early career and senior researchers, academics in general and PhD students make a significant contribution to the field of innovation. It seeks to bring its members together to discuss current scholarly issues in the field and identify new research agendas, while supporting members with capacity building events.

Next Event

Our Innovation SIG, jointly with the Creative and Cultural Industries SIG, will offer the Symposium
Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Opportunity or Threat on 15th - 16th April. This event will bring together experts and members of the BAM community to consider both sides and debate the opportunities and threats of AI for creativity. For more details, please visit the website through the link. Registration is open!

BAM2024 Conference

The Innovation SIG Track had a fantastic programme with high quality full papers and developmental papers presented both online and in-person. New and former members provided insightful feedback and strengthened various collaborative networks. Huge thank you to all colleagues who presented their work, chaired sessions, and attended the events. You can find below some photographs of our sessions.

We would like to encourage you to share your paper success with us, following your presentations at BAM. And if you have presented a developmental paper this year, we invite you to present a full version in 2025. As mentioned by Dr Patricia Prado in her presentation (see photo below), "the feedback I received last year during the discussions about my developmental paper were very insightful and helped me advance that work into a book chapter forthcoming) and into the full paper I'm presenting this year".

SIG Committee Members:

Professor Jonathan Sapsed

Professor Jonathan Sapsed

Innovation SIG Chair

Dr Patricia Prado

Dr Patricia Prado

Innovation SIG Vice Chair

Dr Areti Gkypali

Dr Areti Gkypali

Innovation SIG Representative for capacity building for ECRs, Athens University of Economics and Business

Dr Chiara Marzocchi

Dr Chiara Marzocchi

Innovation SIG Treasurer

Dr Nick Marshall

Dr Nick Marshall

Ex-Officio Member