Prof. John Z Langrish, MSc PhD FRSA.

John Langrish has spent more than 30 years involved with technical change and its management through working at ICI, the R&D Research Unit of Manchester Business School, UMIST and until recently MMU where he was the Dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies and Chair of the Research Degrees Committee in Art and Design.

He was Distinguished Foreign Scholar and Visiting Professor at Iowa State University and is currently Visiting Professor in Design Research at Salford University and Treasurer of the Design Research Society.
Co-author of Wealth from Knowledge (the classic study of technological innovation) and papers on topics from physical chemistry to design management and from long-range cycles to science policy.  As one of the few people in the world with considerable experience of PhDs in Art & Design, he has advised on research degrees in various countries and has supervised and examined more than 60 PhDs. He is currently working on a memetic approach to design evolution.