The School and its affiliated centres and institutes sponsor and support managerially relevant research that contributes to the improvement of business practice, as well as the development of integrated and innovative curriculum and case-based course materials that are attuned to the lifelong learning needs of business leaders. Our Centres' and Institutes' research creates new knowledge and ideas that address contemporary business issues. Intellectual capital generated by the School's faculty results in academic and practitioner-oriented journal articles, books and monographs, presentations for professional and business conferences, and innovative educational materials used in programmes at Nottingham and at our educational institutions in China, Singapore and Malaysia.