Organisations and research systems today face a fundamental challenge: creating value increasingly requires accessing and integrating knowledge and technologies from beyond traditional boundaries. Yet most struggle with this. The gap is not lack of will but lack of actionable knowledge about mechanisms.

Yat Ming Ooi is a collaborative innovation scholar in technology and innovation management. He studies how organisations and researchers access, govern, and leverage external knowledge for commercial and societal value. He focuses on understanding the mechanisms such as organisational structures, governance arrangements, and collaborative processes, that enable external knowledge utilisation.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Research-Technology Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of Innovation Management, and co-leads ISPIM's Frontiers of Impact Special Interest Group. Using case study and qualitative methods and drawing on knowledge governance and resource-based perspectives, he builds middle-range theory about external knowledge mechanisms. 

External Funding:

• £10,000 in WUN Research Development Fund 2023 for "Responsible and Ethical AI for Future Actions: Empowering Sustainable Development through Web Article and Online Initiatives".

• NZ$10.3 million in the prestigious Endeavour Fund 2022 for the Heavy Engineering Research Association-led (HERA), multi-disciplinary Construction 4.0 research programme