IKON's key research themes are:

• Knowledge exploitation, integration and interactive innovation processes
• Networking and innovation
• Knowledge and learning in organizations
• Knowledge Management and communities of practice
• Evidence generation and use
• Managing knowledge work
• Expertise development and transfer

Current Research Projects

Within these areas IKON's current research portfolio is focused on the following key projects:

• Management insights for tackling grand challenges: the case of climate-related financial risks in the financial investment industry (UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship)

• Improving Evidence-Based Innovation in Social Care: A Methodology for Values Alignment
• New Modes of Expertise Development in Technologically Intensive Environments

• Early stage equity investment practices in Angels network and start-up management . A preliminary study

Recently Completed Research Projects

• Improving the capabilities of NHS organisations to use evidence: A Process Model
• NHS Top Managers, Knowledge Exchange and Leadership: The Early Development of Academic Health Science Networks
• Evidence in Management Decisions: Advancing Knowledge Utilization in Healthcare Management
• Networked Innovation in the Health Sector (NIHS): Comparative Evaluation of the Role of Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
• The Organisational Practices of Knowledge Mobilisation at Top Manager Level in the NHS
• The Management and Organization of Clinical Trials  

Previously Completed Research Projects

• Improving the Capacity of Healthcare Organisations to Act on Evidence in Patient Safety
• Understanding the Historical Evolution of Pharmacy Practice. A Cross National Study
• The role of Communities of Practice in improving business performance
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative Computer Game Development: Implications for Theory, Policy and Practice
• Knowledge Management Systems for Lean Healthcare
• The Evolution of Biomedical Knowledge: Interactive Innovation in the UK and US
• The Dynamics of Networked Innovation: Barriers to Knowledge Transfer
• Capturing Knowledge and Project-Based Learning: Managing Culture and Change in the Construction Firm
• Knowledge Management for Project-based Learning
• Power, Knowledge and Knowledge Management: A study of Interactive Innovation
• Networking for Effective Research: Developing and Sustaining Collaborative Alliances 
• Gateways to the Virtual Society: Innovation for Social Inclusion
• Knowledge Articulation and Utilisation: Networks and the Creation of Expertise
• The Role of Professional Associations in the Diffusion of Technological Innovation
• Knowledge Management and the Learning Organization
• Cultural Change in Construction: Developing the Client's Management Role to Improve Project Performance
• Knowledge Creation in Knowledge Intensive Firms