Path-dependent Foundation of Global Design-driven Outdoor Trade in the Northwest of England
Mary B Rose
www.lancaster.ac.uk
Lancaster University
Mary Rose is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Management School at Lancaster University, UK. She specialises in evolutionary approaches to innovation and the relationships between innovation, entrepreneurship and communities of practice. She has written widely on the evolution of business values, networking behaviour by family firms and the problem of leadership succession, publishing numerous articles in refereed journals and authoring or co-authoring three books and editing nine. Her most recent collaborative work is with businessman Mike Parsons. Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers, published in 2003, was runner-up for the Wadsworth Prize in business history in 2004 and won the Design History Scholarship Award in 2005.
Terence Love
www.curtin.edu.au
Curtin University of Technology
Australia
Terence Love is a Curtin Research Fellow based at Curtin University of Technology. He specialises in research in design and innovation involving complex socio-technical systems and has around 80 publications in this area. He is a Fellow of the Design Research Society. At Curtin University, he is a member of the Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, a founder of the DesignOutCrime research group, and an Affiliate Researcher of PATREC (Planning and Transport Research Centre). He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Lancaster University Management School in the UK. He worked for Troll Products and Parba Products (designers and manufacturers of climbing and outdoor equipment) in the late 1960s and operated his own business designing and manufacturing specialist mountaineering and sailing equipment to order.
Mike Parsons
www.lancaster.ac.
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
Mike Parsons has spent over 40 years in the outdoor equipment trade. Formerly Managing Director of Karrimor International—a company with 320 employees—he now runs OMM Ltd., a specialist in lightweight outdoor gear, and is an Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development at Lancaster University Management School. His iconic product designs include the Karrimat, Whillans and Haston Alpiniste, KS-B’s, Jaguar SA, Hot Ice and Hot Earth. He holds 42 patents and a dozen or so brand registrations worldwide.