Inside the innovation room : Hyper Island meets Emerald Group Publishing

"Hyper Island students from our MA Digital Experience Design program in Manchester joined their hearts, minds and wits with a leading figure from the publishing industry, to help re-imagine the future of publishing and then design initiatives that will pave the way toward innovation....What does the next generation users want from an academic publisher like Emerald?...The students got a deep understanding of Emerald’s values, and their solutions responded to our position at the heart of management learning. The summaries below don’t do justice to their awesome presentations but will give you a sneaky peek at future possibilities....[One team] proposed a shift in business model from asset builder to network orchestrator and provided business plans for developing an open access lab...."