Kent Business School - Research - Kent Business School

Research with Impact

Creating a sustainable tomorrow through our world-class research.

Looking forward.

Our world-class academics influence management strategies and practices world-wide through our outstanding research projects and direct involvements with industry. We address some of the biggest challenges of our time such as sustainability and responsible leadership to drive progress and create better business globally.

At its core, our research strategy is about sustainable innovation - a theme that Kent Business School embodies in all areas. We want to answer the big questions - how can innovation that enables sustainable long-term economic growth be created and supported? How can sustainable business practices improve environmental and social conditions? These are the problems we are here to solve.

We are global leaders advancing knowledge through constant collaboration and promotion of innovative research. We collaborate with local, national and international business, but we don't stop there. We have forged partnerships with other academic institutions and organisations such as the NHS. This wider focus allows us to advance towards our goal of a sustainable tomorrow.

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Driving a sustainable tomorrow through meaningful partnerships.

We bring our expertise to our partners, building long lasting relationships through the insights of our research and the benefits they bring businesses.

Some of our Knowledge Transfer Partnerships:

ZTP KTP - Zero Trace Procurement Limited
Partnership objective: To design and build a risk management product that will enable UK and Multinational businesses to mitigate risk associated with open energy market positions. The product will engage stakeholders from multiple countries to facilitate the aggregation of risk reporting to a single reporting facility.
Eurostar KTP - Eurostar International Limited
Partnership objective: To gain new knowledge in simulation technology systems to develop capacity planning and large scale modelling capability in order to increase station capacity; enabling year on year growth of passenger numbers.
Port of Dover KTP 2 - Dover Harbour Board
Partnership objective: To optimise and redesign the port system traffic management and infrastructure investment, in the face of significant post-Brexit regulatory changes, digitalisation and decarbonisation challenges, through acquiring new knowledge in agent-based modelling.
Priory Direct KTP - Priory Business Group PLC
Partnership objective: To improve efficiency and service levels within a sustainable packaging provision context to the fast-growing ecommerce sector. To lead to an increase in market share and improvements in stock availability and demand forecasting through enhanced data handling and supply chain analytics.