Stephen Little

Steve is a member of the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise within the Open University Business School, U.K. He is also a visiting scholar in the Department of Management of Technology and Innovation, Rotterdam School of Management and a Visiting Professor in Business Logistics, Innovation and Systems at the University of Bolton, U.K. He is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Technology Network (www.aptn.org.uk), and a member of the council of the Design Research Society.

Previously he has held full-time appointments in information systems at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK the University of Wollongong NSW and Griffith University Queensland, Australia. He has held visiting appointments at The Australian National University, Canberra and the Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney.

His current research into the role of information systems in knowledge creation and trasfer include investigations of the role of migration of skilled labour in regional development and the contribution of landmark events and the creative economy to the development of European cities and regions.

As a member of the MODE Collaboration he is examining the mechanisms of technology transfer from the ATLAS experiment (a distributed network of 2,500 physicists) at CERN, Geneva, to member organisations and stakeholders.