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Dr Stephen Little is Head of the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise within the Open University Business School and a co-director of the University's Centre on Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD).

He is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Technology Network (APTN), a company limited by guarantee. The aim of the company is to raise awareness of the developments occurring in high technology in Asian countries and to encourage collaboration between companies in the UK (and indeed wider Europe) and those in the Asia-Pacific region. Previously as a member of APTN he had attended meetings and conferences in the UK, China and South Korea.

He also holds a Visiting Chair in Business Logistics, Innovation and Systems (BLIS) at the University of Bolton and is a council member of the Design Research Society (DRS) and an associate of the British Institute of Information Technology and Ecommerce (BITE) .

He is currently researching the place of regions in the global economy with colleagues at the Open University and elsewhere nd has co-edited books and journal issues covering the influence of the Asian economies in the twenty-first century, intelligent urban development and meta-governance. His book, Design and Determination: the role of information technology in redressing regional inequities in the development process was published by Ashgate in 2004.

Details of these research interests can be found here.

He has degrees in Architecture and Applied Psychology. He has been researching technology and organisations since leaving architectural practice in 1981 to undertake a PhD on the organisational dynamics of innovation in computer aided architectural design. This was undertaken at the Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London where he made extensive use of on-line information resources and the ARPANet, precursor of the Internet.

He joined the OU in 1999 as course team chair for the presentation of a new MBA elective course Managing Knowledge. As well as involving students across Western and Eastern Europe, this course is also presented by affiliated institutions in South Africa and Hong Kong.

Currently he is presentation chair of a new course Strategic Management in Life Sciences and Heath Care which supports a Life Sciences variant of the MBA programme.

His earlier experience includes a decade as an architect in the U.K. public housing sector, prior to his PhD at the Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London. This was followed by eleven years in Australia based at Griffith University, Brisbane, and the University of Wollongong NSW.

While in Australia Steve held visiting appointments to the Urban Research Program at the Australian National University and the Fujitsu Centre for Managing Information Technology in Organisations at the Australian Graduate School of Management. At the former he investigated non-place aspects of community. At the latter he studied the deployment of knowledge-based computer systems in a number of key sectors, including rail transportation.

In 1996 he joined the Department of Business Information Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University to develop a final year subject preparing computing professionals for work in a globalised economy and has published a number of papers on the cross-cultural dimensions of information systems in this context.

In continuing his interest in the Asia Pacific he undertook Japanese language courses at the North West Japan Centre.

A full curriculum vitae is available here.

"Science entrepreneurs need better business skills"

From New Scientist 23 February 2008 (available HERE).

Stephen Little was among a number of business and management educators and students who contributed to this article which discusses the value of business knowledge to scientists and technologists.

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