Leading for Innovation: The impact of leadership on innovation

Research points to a productivity gap between the UK and some of its majorcompetitors such as France, Germany and the US. To close this gap, it is widelyaccepted that the UK must move towards competing on value and innovation ratherthan on low costs. So how can the UK boost innovation? How can companiesbecome better and more effective innovators?A number of factors affect the level of innovation in organisations. One of the mostimportant is leadership. This report is an overview of the findings of a team of AIMmanagement scholars who participated in a Management Research Forum held incollaboration with the Chartered Management Institute to investigate the relationshipbetween leadership and innovation.[...]