Portsmouth Business School
Professor Paul Trott
Professor of Innovation Management, Head of the Strategy Enterprise and Innovation Subject Group
Portsmouth Business School
Richmond Building
Portland Street
Portsmouth
PO1 3DE
Profile
Prof Paul Trott BSc (Hons), PhD (Cranfield), Dip M, Pg Cert HE
Paul is Professor of Innovation Management at the Business School. He is also Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. Paul’s research explores innovation policy and how firms manage innovation. He has raised over £500,000 in research funding. Recently, Paul was Principal Investigator of a study exploring product development opportunities for a firm manufacturing Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) in the UK. One of his research projects helped a steel tube manufacturing firm in the UK develop a new product range to help it diversify its very narrow customer base.
Paul has published over fifty articles on innovation management. His work has been published in many different journals including: R&D Management, Technovation, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Journal of Marketing Theory, International Journal of Innovation Management. His book Innovation Management & New Product Development is now in its 5th edition and is used all over the world.
Paul has taught at many different universities around the world including T.U. Munich, Germany, T.U. Delft, The Netherlands, North Carolina, USA. He has successfully supervised over ten PhD research projects. He teaches innovation management and new product development at both undergraduate and post graduate level and has taught on a variety of courses including Product Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management. He holds a PhD from Cranfield University.
Publications since 2009
Books
Trott P (2011) Innovation Management and New Product Development, 5th edition, Prentice Hall, London. ISBN: 0 273 65560-4.
Bannock G, Davis E, Trott P and Uncles M (2002) Penguin Dictionary of Business, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. ISBN: 0-14-051376-0.
Journal articles
Lowman M, Trott P, Hoecht A and Sellam Z (Forthcoming) Innovation risks of outsourcing new product development in the pharmaceutical industry, Technovation.
Hoecht A and Trott P (Forthcoming) Strategies to deal with counterfeit products, International Journal of Emerging Markets.
Berkhout G, Hartman D and Trott P (2011) The role of entrepreneurship in innovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM), vol 14, 1, 60-79. ISSN 1368-275X.
Trott P (2010) ‘Innovation in Arts and Cultural Organisations, Hasan Bakhshi and David Throsby, NESTA INTERIM RESEARCH REPORT 1, December 2009, Creative Industries Journal, 2: 3, 297-303. ISSN: 17510694.
Berkhout G, Hartmann L & Trott P (2010) Connecting technological capabilities with market needs with a cyclic model of innovation, R&D Management, vol 40, No 5, 474-490. ISSN: 0033-6807.
Simms C and Trott P (2010) Using packaging to create new product ideas, Marketing Theory. Vol. 10, No. 3, 397-415. ISSN: 1470-5931.
Halliday S & Trott P (2010) Relational, interactive service innovation: Building branding competence, Marketing Theory. Vol. 10, No. 2, 144-160. ISSN: 1470-5931.
Trott P and Hartman D (2009) Why Open Innovation is old wine in new bottles, International Journal of Innovation Management, vol 13, No 4, 1-22. ISSN: 1363-9196.
Trott P, Maddocks T & Wheeler C (2009) Identifying core competences for diversification: a case study of moving from the construction industry to the leisure marine sector, Journal of Strategic Change, vol 18, No 1-2, 27-43. ISSN: 1086-1718.