Ed Rhodes is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design and Innovation in the Open University’s Faculty of Technology. He is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Supply Chain Innovation and Dynamics (CASCAID) research group and has edited earlier readers in related fields, including ‘Implementing New Technologies: Innovation and the Management of Technology’ (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 1995).

James Warren is Staff Tutor in Technology at the Open University in the East of England, and is a member of CASCAID and the Energy and Environment Research Unit (EERU).

Ruth Carter is Staff Tutor in Technology at the Open University in Yorkshire, and is a member of CASCAID.