Manchester Institute Of Innovation Research

Calling all policymakers, researchers, and evaluators! We’re excited to announce that our annual Evaluation of Science and Innovation Policies professional development course will take place on 19–23 May 2025 at the Alliance Manchester Business School. 📚 What you can expect: -Insights from experts with over 40 years of evaluation experience. -A mix of interactive lectures, hands-on group projects, and real-life case studies. -Key topics including evaluation design, bibliometrics, societal and economic impact assessments, and many more. Who should attend? -Policymakers, analysts, and program managers. -Research funding practitioners. -Professional evaluators and innovation researchers. Why attend? By the end of the course, you'll gain practical tools to design, conduct, and interpret evaluations, making an immediate impact in your role. 📍 Details: Fee: £2,650 (early bird discount: £2,450 before 28 February 2025). Location: Manchester, UK. Includes accommodation and a social dinner. For further details and to download the application form, visit: https://lnkd.in/dun9jhmj #Evaluation #STIPolicy #Innovation #Policy #shortcourse

Thank you so much for the invitation! I really enjoyed discussing the important work that Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC) is doing and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for innovation procurement. Thank you so much Rikesh Shah and Malcolm Harbour CBE for your leadership in these efforts!

Upcoming seminar at MIOIR!   We are delighted to host Markus Simeth, Associate Professor at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, for a seminar on ‘From Invention to Innovation: The Role of Corporate Inventors in Bringing Their Technology to the Market’.   🗓 Monday, 31 March 2025 ⏰ 15:30 - 16:30 📍 Online & In-person   Markus will explore how corporate inventors influence the commercialization of new technologies. His research reveals how inventors, through their tacit knowledge, play a crucial role in moving inventions from the lab to the market, especially for technologies at the knowledge frontier.   Register here: https://lnkd.in/e4m2nFrs   #Innovation #TechnologyCommercialization #Entrepreneurship #InnovationManagement #BusinessStrategy

Delighted to share the paper ‘Disrupt through Digital?’ by MIOIR’s Andrew James, Ali El Samra and Khaleel Malik is among the top 10 most-cited in R&D Management Journal last year 👏 Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/eQ5zBmQR #DigitalTransformation #Innovation

At Industry and Innovation, we received the news of Stan Metcalfe’s very recent and unexpected passing with sadness. Stan Metcalfe was for decades a prominent voice elucidating the processes of economic development. His work helped establish and refine the understanding of innovation as a phenomenon of key scholarly interest.   His command of language in both the written and spoken form was widely cherished. I&I Associate Editor Anders Broström shares a memory from Stan’s 2022 Swedish Schumpeter Lecture:   🗨️ "Hearing Stan lecture on innovation and evolution was a very uplifting experience. Following the discussion between Stan and his discussant Andrea Mina, who wrote his PhD thesis under Stan’s supervision, I felt as if I were attending Socrates’ discussion with his Athenian disciples."   We are happy to have had the chance to publish an edited version of that discussion in a recent issue of Industry and Innovation: https://lnkd.in/daeWhxFi. Stan’s intellectual legacy will remain enduringly important for the community of scholars that shares his fascination with innovation, evolution, and industrial dynamics. Alessandra Perri, Vera Rocha, Anders Broström, Leo Schmallenbach, Laurie Ciaramella, Elisa Sabbadin, Marcos Antón Tejón, Gianluca Biggi

In Memory of Professor Stan Metcalfe (1946-2025) It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Professor Stan Metcalfe. Stan was a wonderful colleague, great mentor and an inspiration to many colleagues in the Institute and internationally. A leading figure in innovation studies, his groundbreaking contributions to evolutionary economics have left a lasting impact. As a founding member of MIoIR and a key figure in its predecessors PREST and CRIC, Stan played a pivotal role in shaping our institute’s intellectual direction and fostering a culture of academic excellence. Beyond his academic achievements, Stan was incredibly kind, always enthusiastic, supportive of junior colleagues and deeply intellectually curious. His loss is profoundly felt at MIoIR and across the field of innovation studies.   To honour Stan’s legacy, we share his recently published Working Paper 2024-02: Joseph Schumpeter, Alfred Marshall and the Nature of Restless Capitalism: https://lnkd.in/dT3rwadx We understand that many of you may wish to pay your respects and we invite you to share your messages of condolence and memories on our memorial page, accessible via Prof Stan Metcalfe’s Kudoboard: https://lnkd.in/d8P7_UY8

Very excited to secure new funding from Innovation & Research Caucus with Professor Elvira Uyarra and Professor Kostas Selviaridis to explore how innovation policies impact UK supply chains. Specifically, this project aims to address a key gap in policy evaluations, which often focus on supported firms while overlooking broader supply chain effects. We will construct and leverage an interesting, dynamic dataset with firm-level supply chain relationships to examine how innovation policies influence innovation diffusion and supply chain resilience.

🎟️ Final tickets remaining for the below "Opening Up Research" event! Join the discussion on how #OpenResearch practices, such as transparent methods can enhance trust in research, both within academia and with the wider public. 📢 MIOIR’s Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo will be sharing insights from her working paper, co-authored with Cornelia Lawson and Anders Broström on trust in scientists, available here: https://lnkd.in/eDZmh4dv

I am looking forward to speaking at @UUKIntl’s Trusted Global Research Conference (#TGR2025) on 1 April 2025! Join us at #TGR2025 and see the full agenda 👉  https://lnkd.in/eY9kcTps [universitiesuk.ac.uk] Universities UK International; Manchester Institute Of Innovation Research; Alliance Manchester Business School

Thank you Daniel Burton from KPMG for a great session on innovation management and the opportunities and challenges of the ISO 56000 innovation management system standard. Lots of food for thought for my Case Studies in Technology Strategy class on the MSc Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship at Alliance Manchester Business School. Manchester Institute Of Innovation Research