Manchester Institute of Innovation Research ANNUAL REPORT 

Manchester Institute of Innovation
Research
ANNUAL REPORT
2011
Executive Director:
Directors:
Jakob Edler
Jonathan Aylen, Paul Cunningham,
Silvia Massini, Philip Shapira
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Manchester Business School, Faculty of Humanities
University of Manchester
http://research.mbs.ac.uk/innovation/
Contact: Deborah.Cox@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 275 5925
May 2012

FOREWORD
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) is proud to present its annual
report 2011. This report can only attempt to present the reader with a flavour of the
variety and depth of activities in research, engagement, executive education and teaching
conducted by staff at the Institute. It does, however, clearly show that we have had
another successful year: we have increased our research income and further improved our
research output; we have intensified our highly internationalised doctoral research
programme and further broadened our executive education; and we have engaged with
policy makers, firms and other stakeholders in a mutually beneficial manner, based on our
approach which combines critical distance with responsiveness towards the changing
needs and expectations of stakeholders. This report only lists our activities but also
summarises our major lines of research activity and illustrates our achievement in research
and engagement in 2011.
MIoIR is the largest research institute within the Manchester Business School and the
Faculty of Humanities. It is also recognised as a University Institute of The University of
Manchester. We are once again grateful for the support we have received from all levels in
the University and for the encouragement and involvement of countless external partners
in the North West, the UK, Europe and, indeed, from around the globe.
Above all, our achievements in 2011 are based on the efforts of our research and support
staff who are highly motivated, forward thinking and who consistently strive to maintain
the standards of the Institute at the highest level. Our biggest thanks, therefore, must go to
all the Institute staff.
We hope the report not only informs readers about our activities, but further encourages
them to become engaged with the activities of the Manchester Institute of Innovation
Research.
For the Directors
Prof. Jakob Edler, Executive Director

CONTENT
Staff List 2011 ............................................................................................................................. 1
1. Introduction and Summary................................................................................................ 2
2. Our Research ...................................................................................................................... 3
Theme 1: Advances in Innovation Management and Strategy ....................................... 3
Theme 2: Innovation and services .................................................................................... 5
Theme 3: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Evaluation............................ 6
Theme 4: Sustainability and Innovation ........................................................................... 8
Theme 5: Comparative innovation systems and economic development.................... 11
Theme 6: Innofutures ...................................................................................................... 14
Horizontal Research Groups ........................................................................................... 17
Innovation in Defence, Security and Aerospace ............................................................. 17
Nanotechnologies: Governance, Policy and Society ....................................................... 17
3. PhD Research and Training .............................................................................................. 20
4. Engagement and consultancy work ................................................................................ 23
5. Executive Education ......................................................................................................... 25
6. Organising Academic Discourse: Seminars 2011 ............................................................ 26
7. Publications 2011 ............................................................................................................. 27
Journal Articles published in 2011 .................................................................................. 27
Books ................................................................................................................................ 29
Edited Books/Special Issue of Journals ........................................................................... 29
Chapters in Books ............................................................................................................ 29
Book Reviews ................................................................................................................... 30
Published Reports ............................................................................................................ 30
Unpublished Reports ....................................................................................................... 33
Policy Briefs ...................................................................................................................... 33
Working Papers ............................................................................................................... 33
Conference, Workshop and Seminar Presentations ...................................................... 34
Conferences organised by MIoIR .................................................................................... 42
Workshops organised by MIoIR Staff ............................................................................. 42
Media Interviews and articles– Dissemination ....................................................................... 42
External Committee appointments ......................................................................................... 43
Membership of Editorial Boards .............................................................................................. 44
Visiting Researchers and Fellows to MIoIR 2011 .................................................................... 45

Staff List 2011
Research Staff
Senior Research Fellows
Research fellows
Research associates:
Research Assistants
Research Fellow and Research
Coordinator
Associated academic staff
Professors
Reader
Senior Lecturers
Lecturers
Honorary Professor
Dr Paul Cunningham
Dr Ronnie Ramlogan
Dr Sally Randles
Jeff Butler
Dr Duncan Thomas
Dr Ozcan Saritas
Dr Dimitri Gagliardi
Dr Rafael Popper
Dr Mercedes Bleda
Dr Thomas Teichler
Dr Nicola Spurling*
Dr Philip Boucher
Dr Michael Pryce
Dr Thordis Sveinsdottir
Deborah Cox
Professor Francis Chittenden*
Professor Jakob Edler
Professor Ed Feser
Professor Luke Georghiou
Professor Philippe Laredo
Professor Andrew McMeekin*
Dr Silvia Massini
Jonathan Aylen
Kate Barker
Hugh Cameron
Dr Paul Dewick
Dr Faith Hatani
Professor Denis Loveridge
Dr John Rigby
Dr Davide Consoli (seconded)
Chris Foster
Dr. Barbara Jones (0.4)*
Dr Paul Upham *
Dr Elvira Uyarra
Dr Yanuar Nugroho
Dr Sally Gee
Dr Jillian Yeow
Dr Abdullah Gok
Dr Jo Mylan
Professor Ian Miles*
Professor Marcela Miozzo 1 *
Professor Bruce Tether
Professor Philip Shapira
Professor Dale Whittington
Dr Maria Nedeva
Dr Khaleel Malik
Dr Andrew James
Dr Kieron Flanagan
Dr Panos Desyllas
Emeritus Professors Professor Stan Metcalfe Professor Vivien Walsh
External Relations Manager
Research Support Officer & P.A.
to Professor Georghiou
Research Support Officer
Secretary
Siobhan Drugan
Lisa Gledhill
Wendy Walker
Liz Barker
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* denotes academic staff member who is associated with more than one research centre and may report data
under more than one research centre
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1. Introduction and Summary
In 2011, the Institute has successfully increased its income and further improved and
expanded its output. This increase in research income is partly due to an increase in income
from the Research Councils. We have secured a range of new projects including four
significant ESRC funded projects (IPR in the Knowledge Intensive Business Sector;
Innovation strategies of SMEs in the green goods sector; Consumer Responses to Eco-
Innovations; Effects of foreign acquisition of science based firms), and a NESTA funded
project to compile and comment on existing evidence on innovation policy measures. The
number of live projects grew from 39 to 58 in any one year for the period 2007-11.
On the output side, the number of papers in high level impact journals has grown
substantially. Our publication profile and a shift towards more research council sponsored
grants highlights our strategic focus on quality output. Simultaneously, we have maintained
the high level of engagement in contract research for major stakeholders, completing 37
official reports in 2011 and starting a range of new projects with international stakeholders
(UNESCO and the Czech Government, among others). The year 2011 has also seen the
completion of a set of highly visible projects, not least in the area of Foresight where
Manchester has cemented its leading role in the national and international arena for STIrelated
foresight. We have intensified our contribution to academic and stakeholder
conferences substantially; MIoIR staff participated in 141 conferences in 2011. MIoIR staff
have also initiated a new transnational collaboration structure with colleagues from Beijing
and Georgia Tech which promises to be the seed for longer term and broadening
international collaboration (Innovation Co-Lab).
The research theme summaries in this report and the data compilation in the back of the
report give details on the range of activities.
Our executive education courses have been popular, even more so than those in 2009:
seventy two executives from twenty seven countries participated in four courses in 2011
and there are developments underway to further broaden this activity. We have hosted
twenty two academic visitors from all parts of the world in our increasingly popular MIoIR
visitor programme. In the context of our PhD strategy to create world-class framework
conditions for young researchers, we have also organised an Early Career Stage Researcher
conference, co-funded by the network EU-SPRI.
We are happy to report that in 2011 we added two high calibre academics to our staff,
Prof. Edward Feser who is now Eddie Davies Professor of Enterprise & Innovation at the
Institute and Head of Division of Innovation, Management and Policy (previously University
of Illinois); and Prof. Bruce Tether, who returned from Imperial College London to further
strengthen our team, with a focus on areas of creativity, design and skills.
In January 2011 Professor Jakob Edler took over the role of Executive Director of the
Institute, supported by a team of four Directors (Jonathan Aylen, Dr. Paul Cunningham, Dr.
Silvia Massini and Prof. Philip Shapira). The Directors are supported by the Research
Coordinator Deborah Cox and a team of four administrative staff (Liz Barker, Lisa Gledhill,
Wendy Walker and Siobhan Drugan). The new team established and implemented a
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strategic development plan within the reporting year based on a strategy paper developed
in late 2010, with a focus on HR management (full CDR process, full mentoring process,
support schemes, further integration of Doctoral Researchers) and the establishment of an
external Advisory Board, with a first full session at the beginning of 2012.
Finally, the Institute is proud that, in 2011, Prof. Luke Georghiou was elected to the
Academia Europae (Academy of Europe), one of the world’s most prestigious academic
bodies which has 38 Nobel Laureates amongst its members.
2. Our Research
Theme 1: Advances in Innovation Management and Strategy
(lead Silvia Massini, Philip Shapira, Andrew James)
In the latter part of 2011, Theme 1 ‘Technology Strategy and Innovation Management’ was
reconfigured into the new theme of ‘Advances in Innovation Management and Strategy
(AIMS)’. This change came about as a result of Institute thematic discussions and specific
reflections on next steps for Theme 1. Additionally, there was a change in leadership of
Theme 1, with Andrew James taking over (from Silvia Massini and Philip Shapira) as the
coordinator of the new AIMS Theme 1, effective December 2011.
Theme 1 continues to be positioned as a broad cross-cutting domain at MIoIR addressing
the strategic management of innovation and technology. It concerns all strategic activities
undertaken to generate and utilise innovation in the market place, including organisational
changes and innovation, which may accompany the implementation of such activities and
strategies. During 2011, activities undertaken by Theme 1 staff continued to explore
multiple and varied levels and aspects of innovation management, including the micro
processes of managing knowledge and technological innovation within organisations, at
project, team, firm, and institutional levels; the interface management of knowledge and
research; relationships between knowledge acquisition, internal and external firm
relationships, innovation, and business and economic outcomes; the spatial dimension of
industrial innovation management at local and global levels; and sector, cluster and
enterprise-level studies, such as research on defence and security technologies, and
emerging areas such as nanotechnology.
Theme 1 membership comprises a core of about 10 MIoIR staff. More than 30 publications
by Theme 1 members appeared in 2011, with additional publications accepted or
forthcoming. Highlights of 2011 include papers published in Group & Organization
Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industry and Innovation, Journal of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Journal of Technology Transfer, Organization Science,
R&D Management, Research Evaluation, Research Policy, Research-Technology
Management, Science and Technology, Scientometrics, Technology Analysis & Strategic
Management, Research Policy, Research Evaluation. A series of other outputs appeared as
book chapters, working papers and policy reports. Many of the publications cross our
research theme boundaries especially with themes 2, 3 and 5. Additionally, papers were
presented at a number of conferences, including the Academy of International Business,
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the Academy of Management, the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy,
DRUID, EURAM, the Global Tech Mining Conference, the R&D Management Conference,
and the Society for the Study of Nanotechnology and Emerging Technologies. Several
Theme 1 members are involved in the Innovation Co-Lab (see highlight). Theme 1 members
also engaged with many other organizations in 2011, including the UK Defence Science &
Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the US National Academies.
Highlight: Innovation Co-Lab – a leading-edge international collaboration
The Innovation Co-Lab was launched in early March 2011, a strategic partnership between MIoIR,
the School of Public Policy and Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Tech (USA), and the School
of Management and Economics at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT, China). Initial sponsorship
was provided by the British Council. Colleagues from three private-sector affiliates are also currently
associated with the Co-Lab. The Co-Lab offers a collaborative framework for extending mutual
research capabilities in science, technology and innovation domains, with a focus on trajectories
and implications of emerging technologies. Activities include virtual and on-site research
collaboration, academic exchanges, joint student training, collaborative bids for sponsorship, and
active dissemination of methods and findings. Research has focused on nanotechnology (including
research developments and commercial pathways in three areas: dye-sensitized solar cells,
biosensors, and graphene) and on “green goods” technologies (with a new ESRC-sponsored Co-Lab
project underway to examine growth strategies of innovative green goods sector companies in the
UK, China and USA. Regular e-lab (video conference) and workshop exchange activities are features
of the Co-Lab, with training modules for young researchers held in 2011 on advanced methods of
data mining and web scraping. The Co-Lab is sponsoring an International Conference on Innovative
Methods for Innovation Management and Policy in Beijing, 21-24 May 2012
(http://www.aaaa.org.cn/im2012/), including a short-course program in Beijing led by MIoIR staff.
The Co-Lab Directors are Prof. Philip Shapira (MIoIR), Dr. Jan Youtie (Georgia Tech), and Prof.
Donghua Zhu (BIT). MIoIR members of the Co-Lab in 2011 include Ozcan Saritas, Sally Randles, Elvira
Uyarra, Kieron Flanagan, Denis Loveridge, Abdullah Gök, and Evgeny Klochikhin.
Going forward, the newly-designated AIMS theme will build on a strong base of work in
Theme 1 and across MIoIR. This includes our long tradition of work on resource based and
evolutionary theories of the firm and their application to our understanding of fundamental
questions about the nature of organisations, the management of the innovation processes
and the character of strategy. AIMS will focus on emerging research themes associated
with the innovation process, its management, organisational and strategic dimension
within firms and other organisations. Our interest is on the whole innovation process from
idea generation through to commercialisation as well as the interface between innovation
strategy and business strategy. AIMS seeks to advance understanding and practice not only
in technological innovation but also innovation in business models and organisational
structures and processes as well as the context conditions that influence the innovation
process. A primary objective of AIMS is to provide a forum for MIoIR staff to discuss areas
of common research interest and a platform for engagement with practitioners from firms
and other organisations. In particular, AIMS will seek to enhance engagement with the
practitioner community through links to Daresbury, other University unit (e.g. the
Manchester Enterprise Centre and the University of Manchester Aerospace Research
Institute), external intermediaries, and individual companies.
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Theme 2: Innovation and services
(lead: Ian Miles)
Understanding innovation in service organisations, and service innovation – these are two
distinct things - is a matter of growing practical importance and scholarly significance.
MIoIR researchers have pioneered these areas of research, and continue to play a leading
role in them. In 2011 the group lost Jeremy Howells, who left for a position at the
University of Southampton; but we are happy to welcome the return of Bruce Tether, after
a spell at Imperial College. At Imperial, Bruce as been working on topics of design services
and service design, that are of considerable interest to MIoIR, and also on the process of
“servicisation” or “servitisation” (which we have also drawn attention to, and studied in
some recent analyses). Bruce remains part of the UK~IRC, a research centre involving
Cambridge University and Imperial College London, within which he leads the project on
‘services innovation and innovative performance at the sector level’. This project involves
work at the micro, meso and macro levels, and in particular has involved the development
of panel datasets on the evolution of Knowledge-Intensive, and Professional Business
Service Firms, and the determinants of performance amongst these firms.
In addition to research studies, we are supporting MSc and PhD research on them. A great
deal of MIoIR work, though featuring under different headings and themes, actually
concerns service activities, and the team also plays a substantial role in, and cooperates
with researchers from other parts of, MBS' Manchester Centre for Service Research, with
whom several joint publications (including a journal special issue and a book) have been
produced in 2011.
Whereas in 2010, MIoIR researchers were prominent in preparing overviews of the service
innovation field through chapters contributed to Handbooks and related collections, in
2011 books and journal articles were more prominent. The books include a collection of
case studies derived from a successful conference hosted in Manchester and a set of
studies focusing on Knowledge-Intensive Service Activities (KISA - see the box). Several
journal articles also concern KISA, Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and Service
Systems (KISS). One particular set of issues, which Massini and Miozzo especially examine,
concerns outsourcing, offshoring, and related issues of management and human resources.
A relative newcomer to the group, Dr Panos Desyllas, has a background that includes
research on new business models adopted by services that are making use of the huge
information resources generated through new technologies (in particular, insurance
companies employing GPS records). He has commenced an ESRC project (with Professors
Miozzo and Miles) which will further explore the topic of innovation and intellectual
property protection in KIBS.
Major journals in which this theme published in 2011 include Group & Organization
Management (on off-shoring), New Technology, Work and Employment (on IT services),
International Journal of Services Technology and Management (knowledge intensive
service systems), Technovation (Services in manufacturing firms), Industrial and Corporate ,
Change (outsourcing in service firms), and book chapters with major publishers. In addition,
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articles are already accepted for 2012 in key journals such as Research Policy (new
infrastructure development), Regional Studies (outsourcing, offshoring), and Long Range
Planning (organisation of service MNEs).
Theme 3: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Evaluation
(lead Kieron Flanagan)
Manchester has been a leading centre for teaching and research on science, technology
and innovation policy for more than forty years. In a world increasingly characterised by
complex patterns of ‘multi-level governance’ our work in this area today is focused not only
on the national but also on the international and sub-national dimensions of science,
technology and innovation policy.
We remain a member of each of the key networks for both fundamental and strategic
research and innovation policy studies in Europe. For fundamental research we are founder
members of the European Forum for Studies into Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-
SPRI, the successor to the PRIME Network of Excellence funded under FP6). We also remain
leading members of the Inno-Policy Trendchart network of DG Enterprise and the
ERAWatch network of DG RTD, which provide monitoring and analysis on research and
innovation policy trends across and beyond Europe. Finally, we remain a leading member
of the European Techno-economic Policy Support Network, a long-standing partnership
which collectively provides studies to a number of European institutions.
Our work in the area of science and technology policy concentrates not only on policy for
the production of knowledge but more broadly on exploring the governance and dynamics
of the various elements of the system of institutions and actors producing, disseminating
and using knowledge and innovations. Much of our work revolves around monitoring and
exploring trends in knowledge dynamics and broader trends in governance which may
shape science, technology and innovation policies, instruments and institutions. A stream
of work explores the uses and limitations of indicators and performance measurement
systems in the broad area of science, technology and innovation, and other work is focused
on developing new indicators and approaches towards measuring or characterising policyrelevant
phenomena and dynamics.
A defining feature of the Institute is that we work on innovation policy in the broadest
possible sense, mapping out a new agenda for innovation policy studies into the 21 st
century. In this regard, we are working closely with the ESRC/TSB/NESTA funded national
Innovation Research Centre (IRC) through a major £600,000 project to explore the impact
on innovation in firms and their supply chains of procurement by government departments
and public bodies. A parallel and closely-connected project exploring the sustainability
impacts of procurement is funded under the Sustainable Consumption Institute’s ‘flagship
projects’ initiative.
Manchester is also a leader in the development of ‘strategic intelligence’ useful to policymakers.
For over twenty years we have been well-known for work on the evaluation of
science, technology and innovation policies, programmes and institutions. Today most of
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our evaluation work is at the higher level – advising on novel methods and approaches,
looking across evaluation findings to explore “what works” (so-called meta-evaluation) and
extending evaluation upwards to the ‘whole system’ level. However we also continue to
extend evaluation to new levels of governance for STI policy, with a continuing research
interest in the evaluation of sub-national innovation policies and mirrored by continued
engagement with regional and city-regional activities within the UK, the North West and
Manchester. Much of our evaluation work has explored the dynamics of collaborative R&D,
giving us an unparalleled empirical understanding of the nature of collaborative research
both between public R&D actors and across the public-private divide. This work has been
complemented by more than a decade of high-profile research into the dynamics of
academic-industry links.
This theme should be a horizontal, cross-cutting one, with links into each of the other
research themes of the Institute and indeed this is reflected in the research interests and
activities of those active in this theme (for instance critical work on the relevance of
analytical notions of ‘systems of innovation’ to public policy thinking). All of the work in all
of our themes is potentially policy-relevant, exploring aspects of innovation dynamics
which policy-makers need to understand in order to make better decisions in the future.
Highlights in 2011 included:
Conceptual and empirical work examining the wider roles and rationales for the
involvement of public actors in the innovation process, for instance by stimulating
demand for innovation through innovative approaches to public procurement or to the
provision of public services, including our continuing IRC project UNDERPINN (see
above) and its associated Sustainable Consumption Institute project.
Work exploring trends and developments in innovation policies, including a project
exploring small country innovation policy issues (ERA-PRISM)
The successful completion of a major FP7 funded project exploring future
developments in the relations between defence and security policies and research
policies in the European Union (SANDERA);
Work looking at international and European governance and at the multi-level
governance of knowledge production and utilisation, including our continued work on
the development and impacts of the European Research Council (undoubtedly the key
science policy innovation in Europe within the last 20 years) and our ongoing
programme of work on innovation policy issues for the Italian region of Trento.
Embarking upon a new meta-analysis of impact assessments and evaluations of
innovation policy initiatives in association with NESTA (see “Highlight” below).
Scholarly outputs in this area include articles in Research Policy, Research Evaluation,
Futures, Science and Public Policy, Regional Studies, Scientometrics and the Journal of
Technology Transfer. All outputs not previously reported are reported elsewhere in this
document. We have contributed to major international conferences (including a parallel
session stemming from our work on the European Research Council held at the recent
Atlanta Science Policy Conference) and – together with a theme 4 project – organised two
high level events with senior policy makers, including the Minister of State for University
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and Science David Willets and the then head of the Efficiency and Reform Group, Ian
Watmore (now permanent secretary of the Cabinet Office) (see theme 4).
As usual a number of major reports and policy advice studies have been completed for
regional, national and international policy organisations, members have submitted
evidence to UK parliamentary committees, and work has been cited in the background
Economics Paper which accompanied the new UK Innovation & Growth Strategy, the OECD
Technology Strategy, the OECD STI Outlook and a in initiatives by UNESCO and the
European Science Foundation.
Highlight: Compendium of Evidence on the Effectiveness of Innovation Policy
This project seeks to compile existing evidence on “what works” in innovation policy and thus
create a widely visible hub of excellence for innovation policy intelligence. Governments implement
an increasingly wide range of policies to encourage innovation with a view to stimulating economic
growth. These range from local interventions (such as the establishment of science parks designed
to build local innovative clusters) to “system-wide” policies (such as R&D tax credits, public venture
capital investment or innovation procurement programmes). Evidence for their impact, however, is
often limited and what exists is widely dispersed and exists in many different forms – from
academic research to internally-commissioned programme evaluations.
The amount of evidence varies according to the types of intervention. Some have received
considerable attention from academics, with the lessons already summarised in comprehensive
reviews. Other interventions have been studied in various settings, but the findings have yet to be
summarised in a systematic way. For still other interventions the evidence base remains very scarce.
In this project we are reviewing, analysing and summarising existing published work, drawing
evaluation reports and published academic literature. In order to frame this work we have
developed a new, tailored synthesis of the major existing international typologies of innovation
policy measures and an analysis of the portfolio of measures as compiled at EU level and in various
countries.
Between now and September 2012 we will produce around 20 reports reflecting the selected
intervention topics and one synthesis report which will reflect on the major findings. The project will
also create an online intelligence tool (http://www.innovation-policy.org.uk). This will include an
extensive list of references to the evidence base for the effectiveness of each particular innovation
policy. All reports will be presented and discussed in four successive policy seminars in London and
Manchester in 2012. The project has a high level scientific committee comprised of academics and
policy makers.
The project is funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
Theme 4: Sustainability and Innovation
(lead Andrew McMeekin)
The transition to more environmentally sustainable societies presents itself as one of the
greatest global challenges to have faced humankind, greater still when coupled with the
drive for global economic and social development. As such, sustainability has become a
high priority issue for management, sociology and economics research. Within the wideranging
debates, our own specific focus is on the emergence of innovative responses to the
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sustainability challenge, and the social and economic transformations that accompany
them. In short, the research scope of this theme can be characterised as the relationship
between innovation and sustainable development where: innovation is understood, in the
neo-Schumpeterian tradition, to include the development and implementation of new
product and process technologies, new services, new forms of organisation (including new
business models and processes), new markets and industries; and, sustainable
development is understood in its broadest sense to involve the three pillars of
environment, society and economy.
During 2011, we continued to develop a programme of work in this area which is organised
into three broad themes:
1. System dynamics and transformation: How do innovation systems form to solve
sustainability problems and how do they evolve How are markets and sectors
restructuring Is there any evidence of new forms of economic governance
2. Eco-innovation management and policy: To what extent and how are firms changing
their business models and innovation strategies in response to the sustainability
challenge To what extent are product / service interdependencies shifting within these
new business models What is the role of government policy (regulations, intellectual
property regimes, subsidies, support mechanisms etc.) in stimulating innovation
systems towards the goals of sustainable development
3. Demand, consumption and social mobilisation: How might the co-evolution of
innovation and consumption contribute to sustainability objectives How can new
socio-technical infrastructures help to shift consumption behaviour What are the
processes of social mobilisation around the sustainability agenda and how do these
relate to innovation (Links to the Sustainable Consumption Institute:
www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/ and the ESRC co-funded Sustainable Practices Research
Group: www.sprg.ac.uk)
Our research activities involve sector analyses, cross-cutting (i.e. non-sector specific)
analyses and conceptual, theoretical and methodological work. We have developed strong
interests in the construction, bio-energy, nanotechnology, aviation, water and food sectors.
2011 has seen a number of notable developments in the activities associated with the
Sustainability and Innovation theme, including:
The appointment of Dr Nicola Spurling as research associate to work with the ESRC/
Defra/Scottish Government funded Sustainable Practices Research Group.
A series of publications looking at the emergence of bioenergy and in particular
biofuels from recent research by theme members (Boucher, Gee, Gough, Upham,
McMeekin) in Energy Policy, Industry and Innovation, Greenhouse Gases: Science
and Technology, Open Geography Journal, Environmental Science and Policy. Dr
Paul Upham has spent 2011 as Visiting Professor at the Finnish Environment
Institute in Helsinki to work on biofuel innovation policy.
We held focused meetings with the outgoing and incoming CEOs of Tesco to discuss
our research on how large firms can use their buying power to stimulate supply
chain eco-innovation.
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In association with the Sustainable Practices Research Group, we hosted a Summer
School on “Sustainable Ways of Living”, which was attended by over 35 PhD
students and early career researchers. As well as a range of interactive, hands on
sessions, the summer school included keynote lectures by leading advocates of
practice-based approach to sustainability transitions (Schatzki and Warde) and a
panel discussion with representatives from Tesco, the Scottish Government and
Defra. Reports of the school are available at: http://www.sprg.ac.uk/newsevents/sprg-events/sprg-summer-school
Two new awards from the ESRC for research: ‘Sustaining Growth for Innovative
New Enterprises’ (PI: Philip Shapira) and ‘Consumer Responses to Eco-innovations’
(PI: Andrew McMeekin)
The R&D Management Conference 2011 was organised in Sweden by Jeff Butler in
collaboration with the University of Linkoping on the theme of “R&D, Sustainability
& Innovation”. Jeff also presented on the topic of ‘Innovation Frontiers – systems,
services, sharing and sustainability’
The EPSRC Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) project held its final
General Assembly, 25 November 2011, at the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors. The keynote speakers were Lord Selbourne, chair of the partner's board
of LWEC, and Roger Street, Technical Director of UKCIP. Around 100 stakeholders
attended, including DfID, DCLG, Defra, EA,GLA, LCCP, TfL, the Scottish and Welsh
Governments, and London boroughs from the main case study area. UKCIP will now
fund an additional dissemination of the CREW outputs. [CREW had 45 researchers
from 14 UK universities, and was conceived in 2007 via the EPSRC's innovative and
multi-disciplinary 'ideas factory' sandpit approach. Duncan Thomas led the CREW
work on the role of decision-makers in improving resilience. Further info and video
podcasts from the final event are available: http://www.extreme-weatherimpacts.net.]
Clair Gough, Phillip Boucher and Paul Upham have been engaged in a scoping
study to map the ethical landscape of carbon capture and storage, developing a
methodology which builds on an ethical matrix approach. The study has been
funded by the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D programme.
Members of the Innovation and Sustainability theme have developed excellent links with
academic groups across the University of Manchester, especially with the Tyndall Centre,
SOSS, and SED. These links have been reinforced by the establishment of the Sustainable
Consumption Institute, which benefits from significant contributions from MIoIR
researchers
In terms of knowledge transfer, we continue to enjoy a good record of engagement with
UK government departments (especially BIS and Defra – also, see highlight box). Our
connections with firms continue too, particularly in the food, construction, biofuel and
chemicals industries on innovation and sustainability issues. Notable recent examples
include work with Unilever, Costain and Akzo Nobel. Our engagement with the SCI has also
produced several lines of interaction with Tesco.
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Highlights – Two examples of policy oriented research and engagement
1. "Closing the Procurement Gap”
In association with the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), a MIoIR team hosted a discussion
forum "Closing the Procurement Gap: The costly failure to mobilise sustainable procurement for
innovation" at Business, Innovations and Skills (BIS) on 7 April 2011, attended by the Right
Honourable David Willetts MP, the UH Government's Chief Operating Officer, Ian Watmore,
senior civil servants from across Whitehall and senior executives from leading UK firms.
The aim of the event was to signal the importance of ensuring that public procurement drives
innovation to achieve sustainability goals. In our background report, we had argued that current
policy fails to connect public procurement in a consistent way across the innovation (and
efficiency) and sustainability agendas (the report is available at
http://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/uploads/closing-the-procurement-gap.pdf). The lively debate
demonstrated a shared understanding about the timeliness and importance of this issue. The
discussion demonstrated a wealth of good practice, as well as, demands for change in culture,
structure and processes around procurement. Both public and private sectors see the huge
potential of taking the extra step towards innovation, despite - or because of - the efficiency
pressures we face. 2
The event was organised by the SCI “flagship” project Demand and Innovation for Sustainable
Consumption led by Andrew McMeekin and the ESRC/NESTA/BIS/TSB funded project
Understanding Public Procurement of Innovation, UNDERPINN, led by Jakob Edler and Luke
Georghiou.
2. ‘International Review of Behaviour Change Initiatives’
Our report ‘International Review of Behaviour Change Initiatives’ 3 was commissioned and
published by the Scottish Government. The work was undertaken as part of the ESRC, Scottish
Government and Defra funded Sustainable Practices Research Group as a contribution to current
debates about the prospects for policy interventions to stimulate a shift to pro-environmental
behaviours. The report was launched in Edinburgh with presentations and a panel discussion to an
audience in excess of 100. Subsequently, the report has been referenced by the Scottish
Environment Minister in the Scottish Parliament (January 2011) as written evidence for
consideration by the ‘Transport Infrastructure And Climate Change Committee’, and its
recommendations were incorporated (and cited as evidence) in the ‘Regulation of Energy Efficiency
in Housing’ Report on the Scottish Government’s approach to energy efficiency regulation.
Theme 5: Comparative innovation systems and economic development
(lead Marcela Miozzo and Ronald Ramlogan)
This theme broadly examines how different institutions governing business activities
encourage firms and other strategic actors in national, regional, technological and sectoral
innovation systems to develop varied organisational and technological capabilities to
enable them to compete effectively in different kinds of industries and markets. Informed
by an evolutionary perspective on economic dynamics, our research focuses on the
heterogeneity in technological and organisational capabilities of firms and other
organisations and regards growth as the outcome of the co-evolution of technologies, firms
2
3
A report of the discussion is available here: http://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/uploads/closing-the-procurement-gap---
sci-event-summary.pdf
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/02/01104638/0
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and industry structures. Methodologically we employ multiple methods to support our
analyses, namely case studies, network analysis and econometric and other statistical
methods. We make use of existing large integrated datasets as well as collecting primary
data through specially tailored questionnaires and surveys.
Specific issues researched under this theme include:
how historical differences in institutions and policy measures in different countries
result in contrasting patterns of technological and organizational learning;
application of these concepts to both developed and less developed countries;
integration of business and innovation systems framework;
comparative analyses of sectors, especially biomedical and pharmaceutical, and the
growth of service dominated economies, new forms of organisation and innovation
in service sectors, and the differential performance of service economies; and
the importance of multinational corporations, changes in the international division
of labour of production and innovation, global outsourcing and off-shoring
strategies, changes in international trade and property rights regimes and their
impact on the innovative capacity of different home and host countries.
Within the reporting period, work in this area has focused on systems of innovation at
sectoral, technological (knowledge areas), regional and national level, including developed
and less developed countries. Among the sectors explored are the bio-medical, the
university sector, the services sector, the infrastructure sector and the third sector (charity,
NGOs etc). Particular attention has been paid to the effects on technological resources and
assets of science-based firms when they are acquired by foreign firms. We have continued
to study the organisation and strategy of services firms, including work on the capabilities
of IT service firms and the organisation of design firms. We are also focused on the effect of
outsourcing and off-shoring of knowledge intensive services on firms in developed and less
developed countries. Finally, we are exploring the determinants of innovation in the
infrastructure sectors.
Key Highlights for 2011
The following represent some key outcomes achieved during the year under this theme:
Workshops: A half-day workshop on Social Media and International Development was held
in collaboration with Centre for Development Informatics on 31 March 2011. The workshop
was convened by Dr. Yanuar Nugroho and attracted over 30 participants from the UK,
Netherlands, Indonesia, and Finland. Five papers were presented and one of the outcomes
of the resulting deliberations was a funding proposal to the ESRC on ‘Social media
innovation for civic activism in development and poverty alleviation’ led by Dr Nugroho. A
journal special issue is being considered as a vehicle for publishing the workshop papers.
Funding for New Studies: Professors Philip Shapira and Alan Harding (Institute of Political
and Economic Governance) secured new funding for a study on Sustaining Growth for
Innovative New Enterprises from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This
project will address issues and questions of sustainable growth, innovation and economic
rebalancing by investigating the strategies behind innovative and high growth start-up
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enterprise in technology-oriented green manufacturing sectors. It will also investigate the
role of regional clusters to understand about diverse pathways to innovation and growth
across different regions.
Professor Marcela Miozzo and Dr Lori DiVito also obtained Follow on Funding from the
Economic and Social Research Council for their project ‘Funding gap or trap Effect of
foreign acquisitions of science-based firms on local knowledge transfer and spillovers’ and
Dr Elvira Uyarra also secured funding for a study on ‘The Co-operation of Science and
Business as a Factor Enhancing Innovativeness of the Lodz Region’ from the European
Commission.
New funding applications: Continued interest in the links between processes of innovation
and development and poverty reduction in developing countries resulted in four
applications for funding new streams of research. The outcomes of these applications will
be decided early in 2012.
Key Networking activities in 2011:
Close links with the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Science and Technology and the
National Research Council have been established by Dr Nugroho. In 2011 he
delivered two workshops on the concepts of ‘innovation systems’ and ‘triple helix’ for
government officials. He received additional invitations from various Indonesian state
and private universities to give public lectures on theme of ‘innovation and
development’.
Professor Loveridge and Deborah Cox worked closely with UNESCO on the report
‘Innovation for Development: Knowledge and Research Application to Address
International Development Goals A Toolkit’. This toolkit is aimed at countries in the
initial stages of development and is intended for use by planners, policy and decision
makers, and other relevant bodies in government. UNESCO officials visited the
Institute to discuss the report and future collaborations.
Building on an invitation to present an overview of the Institute’s health related
innovation research at the Mount Sinai Medical School in the USA in November 2010,
Dr Consoli has continued to collaborate with academics from the Mount Sinai’s
Department of Health Evidence and Policy. This resulted in new research in the area
of clinical trials and a conference presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Institute
of Medicine in June, 2011 (Gelijns, A., Moskowitz, A., Consoli, D., Buterbaugh, K., Perl,
M., Egorova, N. and Ascheim, D., Reinvigorating our failing clinical trials enterprise:
What are the challenges)
Dr Elvira Uyarra was invited by the Norwegian Research Council's Programme for
Regional R&D and Innovation (VRI) to speak at their annual event in Trondheim on
21-22 September. Dr Uyarra discussed the way the concept of ‘regional system of
innovation’ is used to inform policy and called for a more critical framework that
incorporates policy dynamics and policy agency.
Professor Miozzo and Dr Lori DiVito were invited by the Department for Business,
Innovation and Skills and the UK Trade and Investment to present the findings of
their research on ‘Cross-border acquisitions of science-based firms: their effect on
innovation in the acquired firm and the local science and technology system’. Further
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presentations of this research were made at several universities in Spain by Professor
Miozzo.
Links have been established with UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya. Professor Banji
Oyeyinka, the Director of Monitoring and Research was invited as an external PhD
examiner. Professor Oyeyinka expressed an interest in furthering the relationship
between the Institute and UN-HABITAT through student internships in Nairobi and
also offered to facilitate greater linkages between innovation scholars across Africa
and the Institute.
Publications: During the last year members affiliated with this theme have continued to
publish widely. Articles appeared in a range of journals including Research Policy, Industrial
and Corporate Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics and European Planning Studies.
Theme 6: Innofutures
(lead Ian Miles)
While the term “Foresight” remains contested (as discussed in Miles, 2010 4 ), and new
terminology such as “Forward Looking Activities” is introduced in response to the internal
logic of sponsoring organisations, scholarly understanding of foresight methods and
principles and the use of such understanding in practice, continues to grow 5 .
2011 saw the conclusion of four major studies designed to inform the European
Commission’s strategies for creating a European Research Area (ERA). One of these, iKnow
(see Box), was able to take the opportunity to develop new methods involving those
elements of Foresight (Wild Cards and Weak Signals) that are generally considered to be
the domain of unbridled creativity and inspired gurus. A second study, also coordinated by
MIoIR, FarHorizon http://farhorizon.portals.mbs.ac.uk/ used success scenario
methodologies as an action-based approach to building a shared vision among high-level
decision-makers. Reports on Adaptation of agriculture to climate change, Dynamising
Innovation Policy, Teaching & Learning in an ICT Society and Critical minerals and metals in
the EU were presented and discussed. Participants included senior government figures up
to minister level, industry experts and researchers from the domains explored or from the
innovation and foresight communities. Workshop findings are significantly reflected in
major new European initiatives.
A further study dealing primarily with the ERA was SESTI (Scanning for Emerging Science
and Technology Issues, where Prof. Luke Georghiou is PI in Manchester, major involvement
from Ozcan Saritas), exploring developments that may impact on the ERA generally (SESTI
2011). This examined emerging issues in such fields as health, energy, and cognitive
enhancement.
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5
Miles, I. (2010), “The Development of Technology Foresight: A Review”
Change Vol 77 pp1448-1456
Technological Forecasting and Social
Eerola, A. and I Miles, (2011), “Methods and tools contributing to FTA: A knowledge-based perspective”Futures
Volume 43, n° 3, (April 2011) pp 265-278
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The fourth concluded project was SANDERA, which examined the evolving relations
between Security and Defence Research and the ERA (Andrew James was PI, leader of this
multi-country study – see SANDERA 2011). The project grappled with the blurring of issues
and actors across defence and security research, the evolution of relations between these
fields and the main lines of work supported within the ERA, elaborating scenarios of very
different plausible outcomes – with no change from the current status quo being highly
unlikely.
Research Highlight: iKnow
iKnow was a research and horizon scanning project sponsored by the European Commission with
the goal of advancing knowledge and tools that can help establish more proactive European
research policy, that can anticipate and take into account emerging issues liable to impact on STI.
The project took the opportunity of this research theme to develop more systematic methods for
identification and appraisal of wild cards and weak signals (WI-WE). Foresight analysis has long
recognised the importance of these phenomena, but systematic ways of dealing with them have
been largely absent.
iKnow has achieved, in addition to a great deal of output on STI issues, advance in foresight
methods. Its website - http://wiwe.iknowfutures.eu/ - not only contains documentation on a large
number of WI-WE but also provides tools, access to resources, instruments for Delphi surveys, that
can be applied in other studies. Already two projects have adopted these tools in their own work, so
that the website is becoming a portal applied in other projects. One is a further European study, and
the other is horizon-scanning for the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI), a large initiative
designed to inform health and social care workforce planning in the UK (see
http://www.cfwi.org.uk/).
iKnow officially concluded with the submission of a series of glossy reports, in the wake of a
successful conference in Brussels at the end of 2011. A proposal for a successor project is currently
under preparation; if successful, this will advance the used of social networking in development of
foresight appraisals. iKnow had a tremendous media and internet appeal, being one of the most
“clicked” foresight projects and having had special features in prestigious Newspapers such as FT
Germany and “Die Zeit”.
In each of these two cases – and indeed in the case of iKnow, too – further publications and
journal articles are being prepared for 2012. A fifth project exploring the future of Public
Research Institutes, how they might develop within and contribute to the ERA (with Kate
Barker as PI for Manchester) resulted already in a journal publication in 2011 (Cox et al,
2011). In the European context, Rafael Popper is building on previous work mapping and
surveying European (and world) Foresight activities with the European Foresight Platform
(see EFP 2011 and www.mappingforesight.eu). Luke Georghiou has been appointed to the
European Forum on Forward Looking Activities, a high level advisory body to the European
Commission which will draw upon foresight and other findings to identify key issues of
significance for research and innovation policy or wider domains.
The year also saw the publication by the UK government of earlier work by the Horizon
Scanning Centre, to which Luke Georghiou had contributed, on Technology and Innovation
Futures http://www.bis.gov.uk/foresight/our-work/horizon-scanning-centre/technologyand-innovation-futures
. This work, originally conducted for Her Majesty’s Treasury, was
extensively cited in a recent major policy speech by the UK Science Minister David Willetts.
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Beyond EU projects, applied Foresight research is underway for a range of sponsors. This
includes studies led by Ozcan Saritas for the Rockefeller Foundation (horizon-scanning – see
Saritas and Miles, 2011 – a journal issue will be devoted to this activity in 2012). Ozcan has
also led industrially-related work for INFO (the International Natural Fibres Association),
involving scenario analyses and roadmapping and he has played a key role in Romanian
foresight in connection with Higher Education.
Rafael Popper’s extensive evaluation of the Colombian Foresight programme was published
at the end of 2010, too late for the last annual report (Popper et al 2010); while Miles has a
new study of evaluation practice in press, Miles, 2012). Dr Popper’s experience as foresight
systems developer in the iKnow and EFP projects has led to the formation of Futures
Diamond (a ‘spin-off’ IT company in Czech Republic).
Ian Miles is on the editorial board of three journals in the foresight field, and Dr. Ozcan
Saritas is editor in chief for the journal Foresight, a key outlet linking high level academic
understanding standing with impact on the practitioner foresight community. This gives
MIoIR more scope to influence the quality and directions of research agenda in the field, to
be involved in the extensive networks of Foresight researchers and practitioners, and to
participate in academic and practitioner. Besides regular issues, special issues of the journal
have been edited on “Foresight for Smart Globalisation”, “Emerging Areas in Technology
Foresight”, “Anticipatory Systems and Future Studies” and “Is Africa the land of the
Future” Four more special issues on other important topics are currently being edited
including the “Impacts of Foresight”, “Horizon Scanning: Approaches and Methodology”, “Is
Middle East the land of the Future”, “Future of Security and Defence in Europe”, and
“Knowledge Intensive Business Services”. The journal issues have been well-received by
Governmental Advisors, Public Agencies, R&D Managers, Corporate Planners, Academic
Researchers and third sector decision makers, who are among the key journal audiences.
As well as attracting high quality papers, the journal has encouraged existing and emerging
researchers to improve their publications through good quality feedback in peer-reviewing
processes.
Further, Dr. Saritas has been involved in the Romanian National Foresight project on the
“Quality and Leadership in Higher Education” as a scientific advisor on Foresight. The main
goal of the project is to develop a vision and a strategy for the Romanian higher education
system (within year 2025 time horizon), in order to ground medium and long term policies,
and to contribute to improving the financial and strategic management of Universities. The
project is sponsored by the Romanian Government Ministry of Labour, Family and Social
Protection and implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research
Funding. The Systemic Foresight Methodology developed by Dr. Saritas has been used as a
key methodological approach for the Foresight exercises and has been described fully in
the “Blueprint for Organising Foresight in Universities”, which provides practical solutions
to challenges that universities might be confronted with while conducting their own
foresight exercises. Blueprint for Organizing Foresight in Universities was published by the
Romanian Academy and has been distributed in Romanian universities as a support
instrument for conducting their institutional Foresight exercises. The Blueprint has been
presented as a success story in the newsletter of the Strategic Projects for Romanian Higher
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Education newsletter (2010/no.2) 6 . A national newspaper published an article on the
blueprint).
This year the theme has published major, highly visible reports (e.g. around iKnow and
SANDERA, as well as the European Foresight Platform, for the Colombian Government, as
well as for the Rockefeller Foundation) and articles in Foresight (article on Metrology,
article on combined methods and on support for future management of IP in Universities),
Futures (methods for FTA; future governance approaches) and a Russian language
Foresight Journal. Further, in 2011 a Spanish edition of the Handbook of Technology
Foresight was published.
Horizontal Research Groups
Innovation in Defence, Security and Aerospace
(lead Andrew James)
The MIoIR research theme on innovation and public policy in the aerospace, security and
defence sectors continued to broaden and deepen its activities and increase its visibility
during 2011. MIoIR staff led a number of major projects. SANDERA – The Impact of
Security and Defence Policies on the European Research Area – a two year foresight
project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme Socio-Economic Sciences and
Humanities programme – came to a successful conclusion. A project on methods for
costing defence systems was completed in 2011, and a follow-up project on business
models for defence equipment support was started. Both were funded by the US
Department of Defense.
MIoIR continued its contribution to European Commission policy development in this
field through studies on Regulatory Framework, Certification and Conformity Assessment
in the Security Sector; Pre-Commercial Procurement in the Field of Security; and Civil-
Military Synergies in the field of Security.
MIoIR staff have presented papers at a number of leading international academic
conferences including the International Studies Association annual conference in
Montreal, the Science and Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta and the 8th Annual
Acquisition Research Symposium and at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey,
California. MIoIR staff have also been invited speakers at the Swedish National Defence
College and the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
Nanotechnologies: Governance, Policy and Society
(lead Sally Randles)
Recent years have witnessed a number of trends in the governance, policy and social
studies of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (N&N), setting the scene for developing
new directions in policy, innovation and social, economic and management research.
6
http://forhe.ro/en/Newsletter/newsletter2.pdf
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Already anticipated by the establishment of S.NET in 2009 (The Society for the Study of
Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies), N&N is increasingly understood as an arena
worthy of social science research in its own right, but perhaps more significantly as a
case-example and precedent for the study of a broader class of emergent technologies
where particular conditions apply. These are conditions which combine fundamental
uncertainty with the ubiquity that comes with pervasive penetration into everyday lives;
production/consumption at industrial scale; impacting across a range of sectors and
applications as an enabling or platform technology; and the potential to produce a step
change in broader sweeps of technological innovation, productivity and economic
growth. A further condition pertains to the possibilities for public controversy arising
from perceived safety or ethical harm resulting from the development of a particular
class of technologies potentially creating societal counter-movements of various kinds.
These conditions lay the seed-bed for new and alternative interventions in the
governance of emerging technologies, such as organised public deliberation and
participation initiatives, the design and introduction of new governance instruments such
as Codes of Conduct for the responsible development and commercialisation of new
technologies; and corporate responsibility and ‘stage-gate’ assessment exercises etc.
Alongside the emergence of new technologies we witness new multi-actor experiments
in participatory governance complementing traditional State-regulation and ‘hard’ law
varying significantly from country to country. So, latest and forthcoming rounds of
technological innovation are increasingly co-developed with innovations in their
governance. Within this contested and negotiated arena of governance innovations, we
witness recent shifts in debates and practices. Grand, speculative, future narratives are
less evident. Indeed, the term de-futurisation (Zülsdorf et al 2011)7 captures a research
trend mirroring the reality that, for example, N&N is no longer an object for speculation
as to long-term future impacts, but is entering everyday lives ‘for real’ and ‘for now’.
MIoIR researchers have been pro-active not only in participating, but crucially, in shaping
these debates and research trajectories. Highlights from the engagement and research
activities of MIoIR staff in 2011 include:
A strategic collaboration ‘ the Innovation Co-Lab’ has been established between the
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, Atlanta USA (GT); the Beijing
Institute of Technology Lab of Knowledge Discovery and Data Analysis, Beijing China
(BIT) and the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (PI for MIoIR Professor
Philip Shapira). The Innovation Co-Lab engages researchers in mutually developed
research collaborations, researcher exchanges, training, methodology development
and other related activities in the domain of science, technology, and innovation
management and policy. During 2011 a Co-Lab workshop involving senior and junior
researchers from all three institutes took place at MIoIR Manchester (20/21 June); and
was followed by a further workshop hosted by GT in Atlanta (12/13 September). Both
workshops were financially supported by the British Council. Co-lab activity covers
collaborative bidding, young researcher forums, short-course provision (policy
evaluation, foresight, advanced quantitative methods), methodological development
7 Zulsdorf, T., Coenen, C., Ferrairi, A., Fiedler, U., Milburn, C., Weinroth, M., (2011) Quantum Engagements: Social
Reflections of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA GmbH, Hedelberg.
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such as the innovative large-scale web-scraping methods; and sharing of research
outputs. Monthly virtual e-lab conferences support the face to face meetings. The
Innovation Co-Lab is hosting a conference, short courses, and programme of fieldwork
and PhD visits from MIoIR and GT young researchers to BIT in Beijing in May 2012. The
Innovation Co-Lab serves as a model for China-USA-UK strategic collaboration. The Co-
Lab researchers from MIoIR include Philip Shapira, Evgeny Klochikhin, Ozcan Saritas,
Abdullah Gok, Sally Randles, Elvira Uyarra, Kieron Flanagan, and Denis Loveridge.
A Research Team Leader with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona
State University (CNS-ASU). Philip participated (with Sally Randles) with CNS colleagues
in a workshop considering future directions in International and US societal research
and policy in emergent technologies and the future role of CNS (Arizona State
University, November 2011). Professor Shapira serves as a Board Member for the
Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies. He has been commissioned by the
OECD to prepare a paper on the economic valuation of green nanotechnologies, to be
presented at an OECD nanotechnology workshop in Washington DC, March 2012.
Dr Sally Randles is a registered advisor to the European Commission on the societal
dimensions of N&N. In 2011 Randles
o Hosted at MIoIR the UK stakeholder workshop consultation on UK responses to,
and future prospects for, the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences
and Nanotechnologies Research, on behalf of the Glasgow based UK Institute for
Nanotechnology as part of the trans-Europe stakeholder consultation on the Code
of Conduct commissioned by the EU FP7.
o Was an invited speaker at the final UK National Conference of the Consultation on
the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible N&N Research, 24 November 2011,
London. Her presentation was entitled (Transatlantic) conversations, (Actor)
strategies, and (International) perspectives on Responsible Innovation and
Responsible Governance (RI-RG).
o Co-organised and chaired (with Dr Jan Youtie, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, USA) a Roundtable on Responsible Innovation and Responsible
Governance at the 3rd S.NET conference (7-10 November, 2011, Tempe, Arizona)
with input from key academic and policy entrepreneurs from Europe and the USA:
Professor Arie Rip, Dr Fern Wickson, Dr Rene VonSchomberg, Professor Philip
Shapira, Professor Dave Guston, Dr Barbara Hawthorn.
Further, there are a range of PhD and post-doc projects in the area of nanotechnology
and emerging technologies PhD, including Post-Doc Alain Bovet, who has secured
funding from the Swiss National Research Council to undertake a two-year research
scholarship on controversy and the (de)politicisation of nanotechnology, comparing
UK and France. The first year (Sept 2011-2012) involves a visiting fellowship to MIoIR
(supervised by Sally Randles and Philippe Laredo). Professor Philippe Laredo with Sally
Randles and Yanuar Nugroho have been and still are working closely with a cluster of
MIoIR PhDs on the emerging topic of Responsible Innovation, Governance, Society and
Markets.
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3. PhD Research and Training
The Institute runs a PhD programme with a total of 40 doctoral students supervised by
Institute staff. In 2011, nine new starters arrived. This means we have an additional PhD
researcher working on corporate social responsibility and innovation and new starters to
join themes on evaluation, sustainability, services and regional dimensions of innovation
policy. They are following the MIoIR/MBS training pathway, which consists of core courses
in epistemology and literature/topic development, and a suite of workshops on
quantitative and qualitative methods, including statistics and techniques such as network
analysis. MIoIR staff contribute to the whole MBS doctoral training programme, taking
responsibility for the ‘Philosophy and Epistemology of Management Research’ core course
and one cohort of the ‘Literature Review’ core and delivering workshop style courses on
‘Elite Interviewing’ ‘Social Network Analysis’ and ‘Managing Large Datasets’ . Professor
Philippe Laredo, with support from Kate Barker, leads the core course for MIoIR PhDs (and
any others who wish to join) where the PhD researchers undertake a “mini-PhD” project in
a small group and present their work for debate and discussion, complemented by lectures
presenting key concepts and disciplinary perspectives. They participated in the MBS annual
doctoral conference.
Core elements of the MIOIR PhD Doctoral experience
The following elements to the MIoIR Doctoral experience which help us build a strong peer
community of early career researchers:
- All PhDs have two supervisors selected from eligible MIoIR academic and research staff. In some
cases co-supervisors are drawn from other schools and parts of MBS depending on the research
topic
- All undertake a structured programme of training in their first year, leading to an ‘Upgrade’
Review to approve continuation to year two, with annual progress reviews thereafter adjudicated
by a formal panel.
- All research projects contain fieldwork activities within the research methodology.
- We maximise the involvement of our Doctoral community in the work of the Institute, through
opportunities to work on MIoIR Research projects and contracts (17 in 2010/11) and as Teaching
Assistants.
- The Doctoral community organise their own internal seminars to support each other in terms of
Doctoral development, which the MIoIR Researchers and academics attend to provide feedback;
and participate actively in the MIoIR seminar series.
- All have multiple opportunities and are encouraged to attend international conferences to present
their work and access peer networks. All present at the MBS Doctoral Conference at the end of
their first year, and produce posters for display first at internal MIoIR poster days, and at
international conferences.
- All have opportunities to produce articles for submission to high-ranking journals, on their own or
co-authoring with supervisors.
Our second and third year students designed and presented posters on their PhDs at the
MIoIR Poster day. Staff and fellow doctoral researchers spend the day touring the posters
and many are now on display in the Institute building. Several participated in the EU-SPRI
doctoral conference held at MIoIR in September 2011.
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Several MIoIR PhDs had great success in 2011 and we will seek to maintain links with them.
Christopher Guta defended his outstanding thesis on the effects of learning and innovation
on development, focusing on Malawi. He will return to his post as the Director General of
the Malawi Industrial Research and Technology Development Centre while continuing to
explore research on innovation in under developed countries. Aini Susana Ariffin submitted
a thesis on public research institutes in Malaysia and returned there in November to take
up a senior policy post in the Prime Minister’s Office, concerned with implementing
innovation policy. Hsing-Fen Lee has taken up a Research Assistant post at MIoIR, to
contribute to quantitative analysis in the ESRC project on intellectual property strategies in
service firms with Dr Panos Desyllas, and Professors Miozzo and Miles. This post was highly
competitive and Hsing Fen’s excellent quantitative research skills were a key factor in her
selection for an Institute position.
The following table give an overview of the theme distribution and the national origins of
our past (since 2007) and current PhD. This shows a particular strength in innovation
management topics and it confirms the global outreach of the Institute, especially as
regards Asia and the EU.
Table 1: The distribution of current and past (since 2007) PhD research topics across MIoIR themes 8
MIOIR Theme Completed Current Total %
Theme 1: Management 18 17 35 38
Theme 2: Service Innovation 12 7 19 21
Theme 3: Policy 7 5 12 13
Theme 4: Sustainability 6 6 12 13
Theme 5: Innovation Systems 6 3 9 10
Theme 6: Futures 3 2 5 5
Total 52 40 92 100
Table 2 :The nationalities of current and completed (since 2007) Doctoral Researchers
Nationality (Countries) Completed Current Total %
UK 10 5 15 16
EU (11) 8 13 21 23
Europe other (2) 3 1 4 4
Asia (13) 20 11 31 34
Middle East (4) 3 5 8 9
Americas (5) 6 4 10 11
Africa (3) 2 1 3 3
Total 52 40 92 100
8 Presentation to the MIOIR Advisory Board, 19 January 2012, Professor Philippe Laredo
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Table 3 :PHD completion in MIOIR 2011
Student Name Supervisor Co-
Thesis Title
Supervisor
Aini (Suzana) Ariffin Paul Cunningham Kate Barker The role of public sector research
institutes in innovation policy
Philip Boucher Paul Upham Sally Randles Technology and Controversy: The
case of Biofuels
Christopher Guta Ronnie Ramlogan Kate Barker Innovation and learning in
developing economies - The case of
Malawi
Liting Liang Andrew James Ian Miles Strategic innovation and business
models
John Broderick Paul Upham Sally Randles Instituting carbon markets
Chao-chen Chung Jakob Edler Andrew
McMeekin
Hsing-fen Lee Marcela Miozzo Philippe
Laredo
Dace Rambaka Maria Nedeva Luke
Georghiou
Nicola Wall
Andrew
McMeekin
Jeremy
Howells
Innovation Policy in Small
Countries
Career paths of engineering PhDs
Research Systems in Transitional
countries
Business strategies of bio-tech
companies
Aisha Butti Bin Bishr Kate Barker Ian Miles The role of Performance Indicators
in the development of Dubai’s e-
government initiative
Kyung Ho Lee Elvira Uyarra Jeremy
Howells
Regional Innovation policy and
robotics clusters in Korea
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4. Engagement and consultancy work
(lead Paul Cunningham)
Throughout 2011 the Institute has continued to extend its already long history of
engagement with the users and beneficiaries of its research. Continued emphasis, on the
part of policy makers and funding bodies, on the demonstration of the relevance and
impact of research has meant that such engagement remains both a focus and recognised
strength of the Institute’s activities. Hence, the Institute has continued to undertake
research and consultancy that has a strong influence on business strategy and
management (for example under Theme 1) and on Government policy at a range of levels
(largely within, but not restricted to, the context of Theme 3).
One of our guiding principles is to endeavour to be highly selective and undertake
consultancy activities that combine a high level of influence and visibility (at the highest
levels of business, public administration and government or international organisations),
provide a contribution to our academic research programme and enable the codevelopment
of leading edge concepts with a range of major stakeholders.
In 2011, the Institute once again was able to maintain its high profile engagement with
businesses and policymaking bodies at all levels (regional, national, European and
international). The activities described below offer a brief indication of the extent of our
involvement with firms and policy-making bodies, whilst our publications provide more
extensive evidence of these types of engagement.
Highlights
As in previous years, there has been continuing development towards mixed funding
models that combine academic work with our engagement activities. For example,
continued work on a large scale project in the area of public procurement and innovation,
financed by a consortium of UK actors including ESRC, BIS, NESTA and the Technology
Strategy Board. All funding partners are closely engaged, seeking to utilise the results for
their stakeholders, while the project itself was peer-reviewed by ESRC. The project’s
stakeholder partner board comprises Rolls Royce, Amadeus Ltd, NWDA, the Whitehall
Innovation Hub, Manchester Enterprise and the Office of Government Commerce. A
further example is the continuation of a large scale project funded by SCI on the role of
private and public purchasing for innovation. The project attracts keen business policy
interest from the UK retailer, Tesco, which forms the major sponsor and also informs the
SCI stakeholders on a regular basis, whilst strongly preserving the academic freedom to
disseminate findings more widely. An in-depth collaborative study on the management of
relationships inside TESCO and with suppliers as regards a turn towards sustainable supply
chains has been started in 2011.
Building on previous work in the area, January 2011 saw the commencement of another
ambitious project for and with NESTA, the compilation of the most comprehensive
compendium of evidence on the impact of innovation support measures (see highlight
theme 3). This project seeks to create high visibility and engagement with policy makers
and societal groups across the whole spectrum of policy intervention.
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During 2011, in terms of engagement with policy makers, RTD performers and major
stakeholders in our areas of interest, staff in the Institute have participated in more than 20
European Commission Framework programme research and consultancy projects. These
research projects typically require the formulation of cross border research teams and
often incorporate RTD performers. The outputs from the research activities are fed directly
to the EC appointed project officers and inform the European Commission’s policy process.
Other major consultancy projects during the year included UNESCO, the OECD, the
Norwegian Research Council, the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVO),
the Czech Government, and the Regions of Puglia and Trento in Italy.
Finally, through their membership of a number of international networks and management
bodies, staff of the Institute are able to influence the direction and shape of European STI
policy initiatives. Examples of such bodies include the management committees for
ERAWATCH and ETEPS (the European Techno-Economic Support network), the project
conducted within those networks are listed in the project table at the back of the
document.
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5. Executive Education
In 2011, we have further broadened the activities in Executive Education. We have
delivered our three standing courses on Foresight, Evaluation and Science and Innovation
Policy and added a tailored course for the Korean Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning
(KISTEP). Altogether we trained 72 mid and senior officials of Ministries, Innovation and
Science agencies, think tanks and firms from 27 countries. We saw again a geographical
broadening, participants increasingly coming from African and Asian countries as well as
Latin America (mainly Foresight). Discussions with some of the participants have led to first
plans to expand the executive education geographically.
Table 4: Overview of Executive Education Courses
Title: MIoIR PI Staff working on the course Particip.
Countries
Evaluation of
Philip Shapira, Kate Barker, Paul Cunningham,
Science and J. Edler, Maria Nedeva, Rupert Pichler (ext.), John 22 part.
Innovation K.Barker Rigby, Debbie Cox, Erik Arnold (ext.), 15 countr.
Policies
Abdullah Gok
Foresight:
Exploring the
Future, Shaping
the Present
Science
Technology, and
innovation Policy
KISTEP STI Policy
Course
I. Miles
P. Laredo,
K. Barker,
J. Edler
J Edler K.
Barker
Ozcan Saritas, Rafael Popper, Denis
Loveridge, Luke Georghiou, Joe Ravetz, Jim
Skea (ext.), Jill Ringland (ext.), John Broderick
(ext), Andrew Stevens (ext.)
Kieron Flanagan, Elvira Uyarra, Maria Nedeva
Stan Metcalfe, Ian Miles, Rafael Popper, Paul
Cunningham, Elvira Uyarra, Abdullah Gok
18 part.
13 countr.
14 part.
8 countr.
18 part
(Korea)
72 part.,
27 countr.
Date
16-20 May
2011
27 Jun – 01
Jul 2011
10-14 Oct
2011
7-11 Nov
2011
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6. Organising Academic Discourse: Seminars 2011
External seminars
The weekly seminar series for 2011 has seen the participation of high profile researchers
and some emergent and fast rising researchers in UK, Europe and Australia. Our invited
speakers cover a broad range of areas in innovation, from economics, management, to
policy and environmental aspects, so to involve all members of staff, and contributing to
the integration of staff who tend to work more closely to colleagues in their project or
theme. The programme for the coming months is similarly varied. For a full list of speakers
see the table in the latter section of the report, “External Seminar Series”.
Internal seminars
Internal seminars are scheduled once a month and allow staff to present work in progress,
normally papers, or drafts for proposals. These seminars are more informal and allow for
more and deeper discussion among the participants.
Writers’ club
In addition to the internal seminars there is a “writers’ club” which is dedicated to
providing more concrete feedback on written work to the authors. This is the outcome of a
bottom up initiative led by a member of staff currently on study leave. The club has been
continued enthusiastically by colleagues, again in a bottom up fashion.
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7. Publications 2011 9
Journal Articles published in 2011
Amalia, M., Nugroho, Y. (2011) An innovation perspective of knowledge management in a
multinational subsidiary. Journal of Knowledge Management, 15(1), 71–87.
Aylen, J. Open innovation: passing fashion or the future for research. Transactions of the
Manchester Statistical Society, 2009-2010, pp. 33-52.
Brooks, M., Foster, C., Holmes M., Wiltshire, J. (2011) Does consuming seasonal foods benefit the
environment Insights from recent research. Nutrition Bulletin, 36, 449–453
Boucher, P. (2011) The Role of Controversy, Regulation and Engineering in UK Biofuel
Development. Energy Policy doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.058
Boucher, P. (2011) What Next After Determinism in the Ontology of Technology Distributing
Responsibility in the Biofuel Debate. Science and Engineering Ethics, 17 (3) p525-538
Bunyaratavej K., Doh J. P., Hahn E. D., Lewin A. Y., Massini S. (2011) Conceptual Issues in Services
Offshoring Research: Implications for Organizational Management and International
Business. Group, Organization and Management, 36(1), 70-102.
http://gom.sagepub.com/content/36/1/70.full.pdf+html
Cagnin, C., Loveridge, D., Saritas, O. (2011) FTA and Equity: New Approaches to Governance.
Futures, vol.43, issue 3, pp.279-291.
Consoli, D., Ramlogan, R. (2011) Patterns of organization in the development of medical know-how:
the case of glaucoma research. Industrial and Corporate Change (advance access)
doi:10.1093/icc/dtr043
Consoli, D., Vona, F., Saarivirta, T. (2011) Analysis of the Graduate Labour Market in Finland:
Spatial Agglomeration and Skill–Job Match. Regional Studies. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2011.603721
Diedrich, A., Upham, P., Levidow, L., van den Hove, S. (2011) Framing environmental sustainability
challenges for research and innovation in European policy agendas. Environmental Science
and Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2011.07.012
Donnelly, R., Grimshaw, D., Miozzo, M. (2011) Does the UK have a ‘comparative institutional
advantage’ that is supportive of the IT services sector New Technology, Work and
Employment, 26(20)
Edler, J., Flanagan F. (2011) Indicator needs for the internationalisation of science policies. Research
Evaluation, 20(1), 7-17.
Edler, J., Fier, H., Grimpe, C. (2011) International scientist mobility and the locus of knowledge and
technology transfer. Research Policy doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.03.003
Drucker, J., Feser, E. (2011) Regional industrial structure and agglomeration economies: An Analysis
of productivity in three manufacturing industries. Forthcoming, Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 42: 1-14.
Flanagan, K., Uyarra, E., Laranja, M. (2011) Reconceptualising the ‘policy mix’ for innovation.
Research Policy 40(5), 702–713
Gee, S., McMeekin, A. (2011) Eco-Innovation Systems and Problem Sequences: The Contrasting
Cases of US and Brazilian Biofuels. Industry and Innovation, 18 (3), 301-315.
Georghiou, L., Cassingena Harper, J. (2011) From priority-setting to articulation of demand:
foresight for research and innovation policy and strategy. Futures, 43, (3), 243-251.
Hernandez Serrano, M. J., Jones, B., Gonzalez Sanchez, M. (2011) The Google Generation: Evolution
in informational predispositions and behaviours. Pedagogia Social. Revista
Interuniversitaria, no. 18(2011) : 41-57.
9 In collaborative works with staff outside of MIoIR the MIoIR staff are identified by the use of underline
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Howells, J., Edler J. (2011) Structural Innovation: Towards a unified perspective Science and Public
Policy 38 (2), 157-167.
Huggins, R., Kitagawa, F. (2011) Regional Policy and University Knowledge Transfer: Perspectives
from Devolved Regions in the UK. Regional Studies, DOI:10.1080/00343404.2011.583913
Jones, B., Goff, M. (2011) Learning to live with data deluge and what that means for educators
(Aprendiendo a vivir con el aluvion informative y sus informative y sus implicaciones para la
educacion). Revista Teoría de la Educación: Educación y Cultura en la Sociedad de la
Información 12, no. 1(2011)
Kitagawa, F., Robertson, S. (2011) City-regions, innovation challenges and universities: (new) shifts
in the UK urban governance institutions. International Journal of Knowledge-Based
Development 2(2).
Lewin, A.Y., Massini, S., Peeters, C. (2011) The Micro-foundations of Internal and External
Practiced Routines of Absorptive Capacity. Organization Science, Vol. 22 (1), 81-98.
Malik, K., Georghiou, L., Grieve, B. (2011) Developing new technology platforms for new business
models: Syngenta’s partnership with the University of Manchester. Research-Technology
Management, Vol. 54 (1), 24-31.
Malik, K., Wei, J. (2011) How external partnering enhances innovation: evidence from Chinese
technology-based SMEs. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Vol. 23 (4), 401-
413.
Metcalfe, J.S. (2011) Comment on Open innovation: passing fashion or the future for research.
Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, 2009-2010, pp.53-55.
Miozzo, M., Grimshaw, D. (2011) Capabilities of large services outsourcing firms: the ‘outsourcing
plus staff transfer model’ in EDS and IBM, Industrial and Corporate Change. 20(3) Advance
access, http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent
Nugroho, Y. (2011) Opening the black box: The adoption of innovations in the Third Sector
Organisations: The case of Indonesian civil society organisations. Research Policy, 40(5),
761-777.
Nugroho, Y., Saritas, O. (2011) Seeing the invisible and making sense of it. Scanning, networks and
scenario analysis. Foresight Russian Journal, 5(2):58-69.
Lim, M., Nugroho, Y. (2011) Introduction to the Special Issue on Social Implications of the ICTs in the
Indonesian Context. Internetworking Indonesia Journal, 3(2):1-3
Rigby, J. (2011) Systematic grant and funding body acknowledgement data for publications: new
dimensions and new controversies for research policy and evaluation, Research Evaluation,
20 (5): 365-375
Roco, M.C., Harthorn, B., Guston, D., Shapira, P. (2011) Innovative and responsible governance of
nanotechnology for societal development. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 13(9).
Santamarıa, L., Nieto, M.J., Miles, I. (2011) Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from
Spain. Technovation. as.doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2011.08.006
Saritas, O., Smith, J. (2011) The Big Picture – Trends, Drivers, Wild Cards, Discontinuities and Weak
Signals, Futures, vol.43, issue 3, pp.292-312.
Shapira, P., Youtie, J, Kay, L. (2011) National innovation systems and the globalization of
nanotechnology innovation. Journal of Technology Transfer, pp. 587-604
Shapira, P., Youtie, J. (2011) Nanotechnology Innovation and Policy: Current Strategies and Future
Trajectories. Journal of Technology Transfer, pp. 581-586
Shapira, P., Youtie, J., Kay, L. (2011) Building Capabilities for Innovation in SMEs: A Cross-Country
Comparison of Technology Extension Policies and Programs. International Journal of
Innovation and Regional Development, 3/4, 254-272.
Tang, L., Shapira, P. (2011) Regional development and interregional collaboration in the growth of
nanotechnology research in China. Scientometrics, 86(2), 299-315.
Tang, L., Shapira, P., (2011) China-US Scientific Collaboration in Nanotechnology: Patterns and
Dynamics. Scientometrics, 88, 1, 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0376-z
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Upham, P., Roberts, T. (2011) Public perceptions of CCS: emergent themes in pan-European focus
groups and implications for communications. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas
Control, 5: 1359–1367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2011.06.005
Youtie, J., Porter, A. L., Shapira, P., Tang, L., Benn, T., (2011) The Use of Environmental Health and
Safety Research in Nanotechnology Research. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,
11, 158-166.
Youtie, J., Carley, S., Shapira, P., Corley, E., Scheufele, D. (2011) Perceptions and Actions: Examining
the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Citation Actions of Nanotechnology Scientists.
Research Evaluation, 20(5) 377-388.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3152/095820211X13176484436014
Wang, J., Shapira, P. (2011) Funding acknowledgement analysis: an enhanced tool to investigate
research sponsorship impacts: the case of nanotechnology. Scientometrics.
Wigren-Kristoferson, C., Gabrielsson, J., Kitagawa, F. (2011) Mind the gap and bridge the gap:
research excellence and diffusion of academic knowledge in Sweden. Science and Public
Policy, 38(6) Special issue: Academic knowledge production, diffusion and
commercialisation: policies, practices and perspectives.
Books
Georghiou, L., Cassingena H., J., Keenan, M., Miles, I., Popper, R. (2011) Manual de Prospectiva
Tecnológica: Conceptos y Práctica, Mexico: Latin American Faculty of Social Science
(FLACSO).
Martinez-Fernandez, C., Miles, I., Weyman, T., editors, (2011) The Knowledge Economy at Work:
Skills and Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Service Activities Cheltenham, UK and
Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar (ISBN 1847200494)
Edited Books/Special Issue of Journals
Martinez-Fernandez, C., Miles, I., Weyman, T. (2011) The Knowledge Economy at Work: Skills and
Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Service Activities Cheltenham, UK and Northampton,
MA, USA: Edward Elgar (ISBN 1847200494)
Irawati, D., Nugroho, Y., Loebis, D. (2011) Mapping the Potentials: Proceedings of TIMII 2010
Conference on Science, Development and Sustainability in Indonesia, Cambridge:
Scientifica. Available in amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Potentials-
Proceedings-Development-Sustainability/dp/1467984396
Chapters in Books
Aghion, P., Reinstaller, A. Unterlass, F., Edler, J., Kaderabkova, A., Narula, R., Radosevic, S., Reid,
A. (2011) Innovation policy options for ‘catching up’ by the EU CEE member states. In: S.
Radosevic, A. Kaderabkova (eds.) Challenges for European Innovation Policy. Cohesion and
Excellence from a Schumpeterian Perspective. Cheltenham (UK)/Northampton (US):
Edward Elgar.
Consoli, D. (2011) Bounded Rationality' AND 'Keynesian Demand Management. In: D. Southerton
(ed.) The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, SAGE.
Consoli, D., Patrucco, P.P. (2011) Complexity and the Coordination of technological Knowledge:
the Case of innovation Platforms. In: C. Antonelli (ed.), Handbook of the Economic
Complexity of Technological Change, Edward Elgar.
Dewick, P., Hernandez, I. (2011), Social entrepreneurship for the generation of networking
capabilities, in Fonseca, M. and Pyka, A., (eds), Catching Up, Spillovers and Innovation
Networks in a Schumpeterian Perspective, Springer: Berlin
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Edler, J. (2011) Innovation in EU CEE: the role of demand-based policy. In: S. Radosevic, A.
Kaderabkova (eds.) Challenges for European Innovation Policy. Cohesion and Excellence
from a Schumpeterian Perspective. Cheltenham (UK)/Northampton (US): Edward Elgar.
Kay, L., Shapira, P., (2011) The Potential of Nanotechnology for Equitable Economic Development:
The Case of Brazil. In: S.E. Cozzens, J. Wetmore (eds.)Yearbook of Nanotechnology in
Society, Vol. 2. Springer.
Niglia F., Gagliardi D., Battistella C. (2011) Exploring the impact of innovation policies in economic
environments with self-regulating agents in multi-level complex systems .
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Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering, Springer Verlag ISBN: 978-3-
7908-2788-0
Martinez-Fernandez, C., Miles, I. (2011) Knowledge Intensive Service Activities: Integrating
knowledge for innovation. In: C. Martinez-Fernandez, I. Miles, T. Weyman (eds.)The
Knowledge Economy at Work: Skills and Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Service
Activities. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar .
Meng, Y., Shapira, P. (2011) Women and Patenting in Nanotechnology: Scale, Scope and Equity.
In: S.E. Cozzens, J. Wetmore (eds.) Nanotechnology, Equity, and Equality, Yearbook of
Nanotechnology in Society, Vol. 2. Springer.
Miles, I. (2011) The use of KISA in the Public Sector. In: C. Martinez-Fernandez, I. Miles, T.
Weyman (eds.) The Knowledge Economy at Work: Skills and Innovation in Knowledge
Intensive Service Activities. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar
Miles, I. , Martinez-Fernandez, C. (2011) Implications for Skills, Employment and Management. In:
C. Martinez-Fernandez , I. Miles, T. Weyman (eds.) The Knowledge Economy at Work:
Skills and Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Service Activities. Cheltenham, UK and
Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.
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Complexity. In: T. Herrschel and P. Tallberg (eds.) The Role of the Regions, Networks,
Scale, Territory. Gothenburg: Region Skane.
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Dispersion In: S.E. Cozzens, J. Wetmore (eds.) Nanotechnology, Equity, and Equality,
Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, Vol. 2. Springer.
Book Reviews
Malik, K. (2011) Managing knowledge work and innovation. R&D Management, 41 (4), 424
Hatani, F. (2011) Responses to regionalism in East Asia: Japanese production networks in the
automotive sector. Industrial Relations Journal, 42(2): 213-215.
Loveridge, D. (2011) Robustness - anticipatory and adaptive human systems. Edited by Mika
Aaltonen, In: Press Foresight: The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy.
Loveridge, D. (2011) In search of the missing elephant - selected essays by Donald N. Michael With
an introduction by Graham Leicester. In: Press Foresight: The journal of future studies,
strategic thinking and policy.
Published Reports
Allman, K., Edler, J., Georghiou, L., Jones, B., Miles, I., Omidvar, O., Ramlogan, R, Rigby, J. (2011)
Measuring Wider Framework Conditions for successful innovation. A system’s review of UK
and international innovation data. ISBN 978-1-84875-114-9.
Basset, J., Miles, I., Thenint (2011) Innovation Unbound Changing innovation locus, changing policy
focus. Based on key findings from the 2006-2011 INNO-GRIPS project (PRO-INNO Europe
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Initiative). This document can be found on the project’s website (Click here). You may also
download it directly in PDF version by following this link: Innovation Unbound.
Barker, K., Cox, D. Sveinsdottir, T., Spaapen, J., Van der Meulen, B., Molas Gallert, J. et al.(2011)
Social Impact Assessment Methods for research and funding instruments through the study
of Productive Interactions between science and society – Final Report. European
Commission.
Bascavusoglu-Moreau, E., Tether, B.S. (2011) Registered Designs & Business Performance –
Exploring the Link. Chapter 2 in Design Economics, an Intellectual Property Office Report,
London, September (IPO 2011/6)
Cunningham, P.N., Sveinsdottir, T., Gok, A. (2011) ERAWATCH COUNTRY REPORTS 2011: United
Kingdom. December 2011. European Commission, DG Research and Innovation. Available
at: http://erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu/erawatch/opencms/information/reports/country_rep
Cunningham, P.N., Sveinsdottir, T., Gok, A. (2011) Mini-Country Report/United Kingdom. Thematic
Report, ERAWATCH Network, December 2011.
Cunningham, P.N., Pearson, D. (2011) METRIS Country Report: Social Science and the Humanities in
the United Kingdom 2011. European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, September
2011.
Cunningham, P.N., Gok, A. (2011) ERAWATCH COUNTRY Fiche 2011: United Kingdom. February
2011. European Commission, DG Research and Innovation. Accessible at:
http://erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu/erawatch/html2fo/reports/gb_pb_country.pdf
Cunningham, P.N., Gok, A. (2010) ERAWATCH COUNTRY REPORTS 2010: United Kingdom. Report to
European Commission, IPTS and DG Research as part of the ERAWATCH Network Activity,
January 2011.
Daimer, S. Edler, J., Howells, J. (2011) Germany and the European Research Area. Studien zum
Deutschen Innovationssystem 13-2011 (Studies on the German Innovation System 13-
2011), commissioned by the German Expert Commission Research and Innovation (EFI)
reporting to the German Chancellor
(http://www.efi.de/fileadmin/Studien/StuDIS_2011/StuDIS_13_2011.pdf).
Izsak, K., Edler, J. (2011) Trends and Challenges in Demand-Side Innovation Policies in Europe.
Thematic Report 2011
Flanagan, K., Rigby, A. J., Edler, J., Shapira, P., Ramlogan, R. (2011) Supporting Physics in Business: An
exploratory study into the innovation-related business support needs of physics-based firms
in England. http://www.iop.org/publications/iop/2011/file_50370.pdf
Georghiou, L., Cassingena H., J., Keenan, M., Miles, I., Popper, R. (2011) Manual de Prospectiva
Tecnológica: Conceptos y Práctica. Mexico: Latin American Faculty of Social Science
(FLACSO). [Spanish translation of The Handbook of Technology Foresight]
Nugroho, Y. (2011) Citizens in @ction. Collaboration, participatory democracy and freedom of
information Mapping contemporary civic activism and the use of new social media in
Indonesia. A joint research project by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and
HIVOS Regional Office Southeast Asia.
Popper, R. (2011) Introducing Wild Cards and Weak Signals Analysis into Science, Technology and
Innovation (STI) Policy Formulation, Report produced for the Higher School of Economics,
Moscow: HSE.
Pryce, M. (2011) Costing Complex Products, Operations & Support. Acquisition Research Program,
United States Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California,
http://www.acquisitionresearch.net/publications/ MBS-CE-11-196
Edler, J., Georghiou, L., Uyarra, E., Yeow. (2011) Procurement and Innovation: Underpinning the
debate. Background Paper Forum organised within the UNDERPINN project; Manchester
Edler, J., Georghiou, L., McMeekin, A., Uyarra, E. (2011) Closing the Procurement Gap. The costly
failure to mobilise sustainable procurement for innovation. A Provocation written as a
background paper for the discussion forum at Business Innovation and Skills (London), 7
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April 2011, organised by the Sustainable Consumption Institute, The University of
Manchester.
Edler, J., Flanagan, K., Gok, A., Shapira, P., Boekholt, P. (2011) International Co-operation in R&D.
Final Report – 6, International Audit of Research, Development and Innovation in the
Czech Republic, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Technopolis Group,
Manchester and Brighton, UK. September 2011.
Feser, E. (2011) El Paso Economic Development System Review and Assessment. Prepared for the
City of El Paso City Manager and Planning and Economic Development Department. 35
pages.
Feser, E., Poole, K. (2011) Public and Private Roles in State Economic Development: Trends and
Implications. Arlington, VA: Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness. Prepared for
the Pew Center for the States, Washington, DC. 34 pages.
Feser, E., Wilson, K., Esterline, A.,Thill. J-C . (2011) North Carolina Broadband Rigor in Mapping
Initiative: An Assessment of Methods. Raleigh, NC: e-NC Authority. 82 pages.
Klochikhin, E.A., Saritas, O. (2011) Development of an approach for the integration of the results of
the global technology trend monitoring into the S&T policy formulation process. A report
produced for the Higher School of Economics (HSE), the Institute for Statistical Studies and
Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Klochikhin, E.A., Saritas, O. (2011) An overview of the technology trend monitoring experience of
leading research centres on the identification of global technology trends. A report
produced for the Higher School of Economics (HSE), the Institute for Statistical Studies and
Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Ravetz, J., Popper, R., Miles, I. (2011) iKNOW ERA Toolkit - Applications of Wild Cards and Weak
Signals to the Grand Challenges & Thematic Priorities of the European Research Area 92pp
iKnow Project, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, The University of
Manchester: Manchester UK available at:
http://community.iknowfutures.eu/pg/file/popper/view/11926/iknow-era-toolkit-2011
Saritas, O., Miles, I. (2011) Scan-4-Light: A Horizon Scanning. Trend Monitoring Project for the
Rockefeller Foundation Manchester: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research,
Report to the Rockefeller Foundation December 2011.
Saritas, O., Klochikhin, E.A. (2011) A methodological approach for the identification of global
technology trends. A report produced for the Higher School of Economics (HSE), the
Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Saritas, O., Klochikhin, E.A. (2011) Identification and description of global technology trends for
semantic technologies. A report produced for the Higher School of Economics (HSE), the
Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Saritas, O., Smith, J. (2011) Considerations in the use of quantitative and qualitative methods for
extracting and compiling knowledge for Foresight. A report produced for the Higher School
of Economics (HSE), the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Saritas, O., Smith, J. (2011) Integration of quantitative and qualitative methods within the concept of
the Systemic Foresight Methodology. A report produced for the Higher School of Economics
(HSE), the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Shapira, P., Doyle, E., Ward, D. (2011) Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness in Small Open
Economies. Final Report. Study on Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness in Small
Open Economies (PIC SOE). Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI),
Belfast, Northern Ireland, February 2011.
Smith, J., Saritas, O. (2011) Approaches for ordering quantitative and qualitative methods for
extracting and compiling knowledge. A report produced for the Higher School of Economics
(HSE), the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
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Smith, J., Saritas, O. (2011) Best practices for combining quantitative and qualitative Foresight
methods. A report produced for the Higher School of Economics (HSE), the Institute for
Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Southerton, D., McMeekin, A., Evans, D. (2011) International Review of Behaviour Change
Initiatives. Scottish Government, February, ISBN 978 0 7559 9967 5
Unpublished Reports
Barker, K., Cox, D., Sveinsdottir, T. (2011) EIRIISS Financial Mechanisms Mid-Term Report.
Deliverable 4.2. Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Barker, K., Cox, D. Sveinsdottir, T., Spaapen, J., Van der Meulen, B., Molas Gallert, J. et al.(2011)
Social Impact Assessment Methods for research and funding instruments through the study
of Productive Interactions between science and society – Synthesis Report. European
Commission
Barker, K., Cox, D., Van de Besselaar, P. Sveinsdottir, T. et al. (2011) Outline SIAMPI final reports WP
5 ICT Case studies. European Commission.
Policy Briefs
Barker, K., Cox D. (2011) OECD Issue Brief: Research Organisation Evaluation.
Working Papers
Sujarwoto, Nugroho, Y. (2011) Decentralization and Government Online Networking in Indonesia.
CDI Doctoral Working Papers, No. 1/ 2011
Yeow, J., Uyarra, E., Gee, S. (2011) Sustainable innovation through public procurement: The case of
‘closed loop’ recycled paper. MIoIR No. 63
Ranmuthumalie de Silva, L. (2011) The dynamism of entrepreneurial motivation: A case of academic
entrepreneurs in a resource constrained environment. MIoIR No. 67
De Silva, R., Uyarra, E., Oakey R. (2011) Academic entrepreneurship in a resource constrained
environment: diversification and synergistic effects’. Manchester Institute of Innovation
Research Working Paper No. 616. Manchester Business School.
Rigby, J., Dewick, P., Courtney, R., Gee, S. (2011) Limits of information A game theoretic
contribution to understanding the development of an indicators policy for the UK
construction industry, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Working Paper Series
Rigby, J. (2011) Fit to Print A View of Academic Publication' MIoIR Internal Seminar Paper
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Working Paper Series
Rigby, J. (2011) Systematic Grant and Funding Body Acknowledgment Data for Publications: An
examination of new dimensions and new controversies for bibliometrics Manchester
Institute of Innovation Research Working Paper Series
Edler, J., Berger, M., Dinges, M., Gok, A. (2011) The Practice of Evaluation in Innovation Policy in
Europe; Manchester, December 2011
Gok, A., Edler, J. (2011) The Use of Behaviour Additionality in Innovation Policy-Making; Manchester
December 2011
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Amanatidou, A., Garefi. I. (2011) Innovation programme evaluation in the context of structural
funds. European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) International Workshop on
Evaluating Innovation Policy: Methods and Applications. Florence, 5-6 May.
Amanatidou, E., Butter, M., Carabias, V., Konnola, T., Leis, M., Saritas, O. ,Schaper-Rinkel, P., van Rij,
V. (2011) On concepts and methods in Horizon Scanning: Lessons from initiating policy
dialogues on emerging issues. FTA ’11 – The 4th International Seville Conference on Future-
Oriented Technology Analysis, Seville, 12-13 May.
Arora, S., Youtie, J. Shapira, P., Gao, L., Ma, T. (2011) Commercialization of New and Emerging
Technologies: A Cross Country Comparison of Graphene Firms. Science and Innovation
Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Aylen, J. (2011) Stretch. Managing R&D, Technology and Innovation in the Process Industries.
Grenoble, 5-6 May.
Aylen, J. (2011) Natural experiments in innovation: radical adoption of computers and changes to
"physical" and "social" technologies at Llanwern steelworks, South Wales. Experiments
Research Network. University of Manchester, 22 June.
Aylen. J. (2011) Stretch. R&D Department and Works Managers. Outokumpu Oyj in Avesta,
Sweden, 29 June.
Aylen, J., Cavan, G., McMorrow, J. (2011) Costing the Spring 2011 Wildfires. Wildfire2011. Buxton,
14-15 September.
Aylen, J. (2011) Stretch – increasing capacity in process plant. PROMOTE – the Centre for
Management of Innovation and Technology in Process Industry at Luleå University of
Technology, Luleå, Sweden, 14 October.
Aylen, J. (2011) The impact of weather and climate on tourism. Jonathan spoke to managers at
Chester Zoo. 19 October.
Aylen, J., McMorrow, J. (2011) Innovation in the emergency services: Spreading like wildfire
Police Leadership and Innovation Conference, Manchester Business School, 14-15
November.
Barberá, D., Consoli, D. (2011) Uncertainty and hybridization in medical innovation: the artificial
disc case. EMAEE - Evolutionary Perspectives on Technical Change and Industrial
Dynamics, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, 14-16 February.
Barberá, D., Consoli, D. (2011) Whatever works: uncertainty and technological hybrids in medical
innovation. DIME Final conference, UNU-MERIT & School of Economics and Business,
Maastricht University. 06-08 April.
Bleda, M. (2011) The evolutionary firm as a complex adaptive system. European Association of
Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Vienna, Austria, 27-30 October.
Boucher, P. (2011) Biofuels: The Uniform Treatment of a Heterogeneous Technology. Energy and
People: Futures, Complexity and Challenges. Oxford University, 20-21 September.
Boucher, P. (2011) Of Things, Names and Judgements; Disagreement in the Biofuel Controversy.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Ohio, USA, 05 November.
Boucher, P. (2011) Governing a Non-transition amid a Narrowing Debate. Climate Change,
Consumption and Daily Life: The Role of the State, University of Manchester, 23 November.
Butler, J. (2011) The motivation to innovate the need to design. XXXIV Covegno Annuale AIDEA,
Perugia, Italy, 13-14 October.
Chittenden ,F., Ambler, T. (2011) From an SME viewpoint, how reliably do UK government impact
assessments identify the costs and benefits of new regulations 25th Annual British
Academy of Management Conference, Birmingham, 13-15 September.
10 In collaborative presentations with staff outside of MIoIR the MIoIR staff are identified by the use of underline
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De Jong, S.P.L., Barker, K., Cox, D., Pearson , D., van den Besselaar, P. (2011) Societal impact of
enabling research fields. ICT research: A Dutch and a UK case. ENID STI Indicators
Conference 2011, Rome, 07-09 September.
De Moor, K., Saritas, O., Claeys, L., De Marez, L. (2011) Exploring, imagining and creating future TV
experiences for/by users: A case study on Innovation Foresight. FTA ’11 – The 4th
International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis, Seville, 12-13 May.
De Silva, R. Uyarra, E., Oakey, R. (2011) Diversification and Academic Entrepreneurship in a
Resource Constrained Environment. Technology Transfer Conference. Augsburg, 21
September.
Dewick, P., Mylan, J. (2011) Focal Organisations: Stimulating Eco-innovation within Production and
Distribution Systems. 17th Annual Conference of the International Sustainable Development
Research Society, Columbia University, New York, 8-10 May.
Dewick, P., Foster, C. (2011) Eco-innovation and focal actors in the milk production and distribution
system. DRUID Society Conference 2011, Copenhagen Business School, 15-17 Jun.
Dewick, P. (2011) Demand-led innovation for Sustainable Consumption. EPSRC Energy Reduction in
Supply Chains Workshop, University of Loughborough Business School, September.
Dilaver Kalkan, O., Bleda, M., Uyarra, E. (2011) Actors, Intentions and Randomness: Evolution of
Regional Innovation Networks. Simulating Knowledge. Dynamics in Innovation Networks:
Workshop. 1st Workshop of the SKIN Community. University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz,
Germany, 31 March – 01 April.
D’Ippolito, B., Miozzo, M., Consoli, D. (2011) The evolutionary dynamics underlying the emergence
and development of design as a business function. 6th Annual Summer School in Services,
Aalto University, Finland, 27-31 August.
D’Ippolito, B., Miozzo, M., Consoli, D. (2011) The evolutionary dynamics underlying the emergence
and development of design as a business function. British Academy of Management
Conference, Aston University, United Kingdom, 13-15 September.
D’Ippolito, B., Miozzo, M., Consoli, D. (2011) The evolutionary dynamics underlying the emergence
and development of design as a business function. European Association of Evolutionary
Political Economy (EAEPE), Vienna, Austria, 27-30 October.
Edler, J. (2011) Public Procurement Schemes and demand Side Innovation Policy - A Critique. 2nd
international Expert Conference on Innovation Procurement by SBIR and PCP, Towards
International Collaboration. The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation,
Netherlands, and the Technopolicy Network, 20 January.
Edler, J. (2011) The Lisbon Agenda, Innovation and Research. 10 Years of the EU's Lisbon Agenda.
Evaluating Success, Understanding Failure Research Workshop. Jean Monnet Centre
Manchester, 21 January.
Edler, J. (2011) Lead Markets and Public Procurement. Policy options workshop, high level group on
key enabling technologies. European Commission, Brussels, 25 March.
Edler, J. Berger, M. Dinges, M, Gok, A. (2011) The practice of evaluation in innovation policy in
Europe: A statistical analysis. European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) International
Workshop on Evaluating Innovation Policy: Methods and Applications. Florence, 5-6 May.
Edler, J. (2011) Conceptualising and exploring the organisational reactions to a new European
funding instrument. 27 th EGOS Colloquium, Gothenburg, 6-9 July.
Edler, J., Glans, M., Frisher, D, Stampfer, M. (2011) The Impact of ERC on Universities and
Research Organisations. Science and Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17
September.
Edler, J. (2011) Setting the scene. Public Procurement of Innovation and Pre-Commercial
Procurement as policy tools. Introduction to a video seminar organised by Manchester
Institute of Innovation Research and Four German Federal Ministries on the initiative of the
German Federal Ministry of Economics, Manchester – Berlin - Bonn , July 14,
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Edler, J. (2011) Lead Markets and Public Procurement, Presentation to the High Level Group on Key
enabling Technologies. Working Group 6: Policy Options, Brussels, March.
Edler, J. (2011) Demand Based Innovation Policy: Trends – Concepts – Challenges. Key Lecture 1st
EU-SPRI Early Stage Career Research Conference , Manchester, 20 September.
Edler, J. (2011) Lead Market Initiative evaluation and the European Innovation Partnerships. Panel
presentation to the Polish Presidency conference Lead Market Initiative: From pilot to
possible future actions, Warsaw, 25-26 October.
Edler, J., Uyarra, E. (2011) Understanding public procurement of innovation. Some empirical
insights. Presentation to the Conference Managing Public Sector Procurement: Driving
Innovation; London, 06 December.
Feser, E. (2011) Income and skill polarization in the metropolitan United States. 58th Annual
North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Miami, FL, 11
November.
Feser, E. (2011) Teaching forecasting to learn how the world can work. 52nd Annual Conference
of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Salt Lake City, Utah, 15 October.
Feser, E. (2011) Concentration, co-agglomeration, and urban hierarchies in the spatial distribution
of knowledge intensive industries in the U.S. 51st European Congress of the Regional
Science Association International, Barcelona, 02 September.
Feser, E. (2011) Isserman's impact: The use of quasi-experimental research designs in regional
research. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, 15
April.
Flanagan, K. (2011) Internationalization of science and innovation – trends and country policy
strategies. Policy Dialogue Workshop Small country perspectives on Innovation and
Internationalisation. Centre Henri Tudor Luxembourg, 21 January.
Flanagan, K., Gagliardi, D. Kaloudis, A. Boring, P., Karakasidou, A. (2011) Research Mobility — Some
Findings from a Recent Pan-European Survey of University Researchers. Science and
Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Flanagan, K., Uyarra, E., Laranja, M. (2011) Innovation Policy Complexity: Actors, Action, and
Interaction. Science and Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Gagliardi, D., Saritas, O., Klochickin, E. (2011) Rethinking Technology Foresight for SMEs: Ways to
facilitate predicting the future by a broader community. YIRCoF ’11 – Yeditepe International
Research Conference on Foresight and Futures, Istanbul, 24-26 August.
Gagliardi, D., Shapira, P., Edler, J. (2011) International Investments for Research and Development:
funding flows and policy in Italy and the UK. Technology Transfer Conference. Augsburg, 21
September.
Gagliardi, D., Niglia, F. (2011) Exploring the Impact of Innovation Policies in Economic Environment
with Self-Regulating Agents in Multi-Level Complex Systems. Association for Information
Systems, Rome, Italy, 08 October.
Gagliardi, D. (2011) Next Generation Entrepreneur: how Web 2.0 Technologies Creep into SMEs.
The eChallenges e-2011 Conference, Florence, Italy, 26-28 October.
Gee, S., Uyarra, E. (2011) Public procurement & eco-innovation systems: a case of municipal waste
management. 2nd International Conference of Sustainability Transitions. Lund, Sweden, 13-
15 June.
Gelijns, A., Moskowitz, A., Consoli, D. Buterbaugh, K, Perl, M., Egorova, N., Ascheim, D. (2011)
Reinvigorating our failing clinical trials enterprise: What are the challenges Annual Meeting
of the Institute of Medicine Public Engagement in the U.S. Clinical Trial Enterprise, Mount
Sinai Medical Centre in the USA, New York (US), 27-28 June.
Georghiou, L. (2011) Introduction to R&D Specialisation. Policy Dialogue Workshop Small country
perspectives on Innovation and Internationalisation. Centre Henri Tudor Luxembourg, 21
January.
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Georghiou, L. (2011) Lead Market Initiative evaluation and European Innovation Partnerships.
Organised by the Polish EU Presidency in Warsaw, 26-27 October.
Georghiou, L. (2011) Research for police leadership and innovation. Police Leadership and
Innovation Conference, Manchester Business School, 14-15 November.
Gil, N., Massini, S., Miozzo, S. (2011) The innovation potential of mega infrastructure development
projects: An empirical study. Academy of Management Conference. San Antonio, Texas, 12-
17 August.
Gok, A, Edler, J. (2011) The use of behavioural additionality in innovation policy-making. European
Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) International Workshop on Evaluating Innovation
Policy: Methods and Applications. Florence, 5-6 May.
Gok, A. (2011) Evaluation of Behavioural Additionality of Innovation Policy. Science and Innovation
Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Gok, A., Shapira, P. (2011) Upgrading Science: Does Funding Source Matter 1 st Global Text Mining
Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, 14 September.
Hageman, K., Elena-Perez, S., Zubieta, A.F., Saritas, O. (2011) Current and future state of European
universities: Mini scenarios for the internationalisation and openness of European
universities. FTA ’11 – The 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented
Technology Analysis, 12-13 May.
Hatani, F. (2011) Port cities in competition: Japan's geopolitical impediments to resurgence.
Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference, University of Newcastle upon
Tyne, 17-20 April.
James, A. D. (2011) The European Commission as policy entrepreneur: security research in the 7
Framework Programme. Conference on Supranational Governance & European Security.
University of Salford, Centre for European Security, 27-28 January.
James, A. (2011) The role of transnational linkages in the UK defence innovation system. Defence,
security and industry, Stockholm, 06 April.
James, A. (2011) Defence and security innovation & policy in the UK and Europe. Center for Strategic
& International Studies (CSIS). Washington D.C., 13 September.
James, A. (2011) The European Commission as a Science & Technology Policy Entrepreneur:
Explaining the Emergence of Security Research in European Union S&T Policy. Seminar
presentation at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 28-29 September.
James, A., Edler, J. (2011) The European Commission as a Science and Technology Policy
Entrepreneur: Explaining the Emergence of Security Research in European Union S&T
Policy. Science and Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Jones, B., Hose Hernandez Serrano, M. (2011) Informal and tacit learning experiences of the digital
natives: Their impact on tackling learning situations. CAL Learning Futures 2011, MMU.
Kaloudis, A., Børing, P., Flanagan, K., Gagliardi, D., Karakasidou, A. (2011) Research mobility –
findings from a recent pan-European survey of University researchers. ENID STI Indicators
Conference 2011, Rome, 07-09 September.
Kitagawa, F. (2011) City-regions, Innovation and Universities: the Evolution and Transition of the UK
Urban Governance Institutions Reframing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation &
Transition, academic colloquium in honour of Phil Cooke. Cardiff University, 4-5 April.
Kitagawa, F., Uyarra, E. (2011) Convergence and Divergence for Sustainable Regional Growth -
Regional Innovation and Higher Education in the UK Government Policy Trajectories 1997-
2011. 6th International Seminar on Regional Innovation Policies, CIRCLE, Lund University,
13-14 October.
Kitagawa, F., Sheppard, L., Styles, J. (2011) Creating Entrepreneurial Capital through University
Education and Career Process: Case studies of Graduates of Master of Enterprise, University
of Manchester, 34 th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Sheffield,
9-10 November
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Kitagawa, F. (2011) Industry relationship and the new role of the university – from an ivory tower to
social engine. Centre for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan.
16 December.
Kitagawa, F. (2011) The Role of the State and the Future of Higher Education in the UK, Japan and
Continental Europe. Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies workshop. University of Oxford,
11-12 March.
Kitagawa, F., Lightowler, C. (2011) Incentivising Knowledge Exchange: A comparison of vision,
strategies, policy and practice in English and Scottish Higher Education. SRHE (Society for
Research into Higher Education) Annual Conference, Newport, Wales, 7-9 December.
Klochickin, E. (2011) Public Policy Instruments in (Re)building National Innovation Capabilities: Cases
of Nanotechnology Development in China, Russia and Brazil. Science and Innovation Policy
Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Lepori, B., Reale, E., Langfeldt,L., Larédo, P.,Nedeva, M., Scordato, L. (2011) Mapping the European
Landscape of Joint Programs; Methodological Issues and Preliminary Results. ENID STI
Indicators Conference 2011, Rome, 07-09 September.
Loveridge, D. (2011) The deceptive world of 'grand challenges. Theory Building in Foresight and
Futures Studies. Yeditepe International Research Conference on Foresight and Futures,
Istanbul, 24 – 26 August.
Loveridge, D., Cagnin, C., Mallen, G., Woodling, G. Foresight and Futures. Theory Building in
Foresight and Futures Studies. Yeditepe International Research Conference on Foresight
and Futures, Istanbul, 24 – 26 August.
Loveridge, D., Saritas, O. (2011) Combining Quantitative and Qualitative in FTA: Something New
or Rediscovery FTA and Grand Societal Challenges: Shaping and Driving Structural and
Systemic Transformations, The 4th. International Seville Conference on Future Oriented
Technology Analysis (FTA), Seville, 12-13 May.
Loveridge, D., Cagnin, C. (2011) A business framework for enabling networks to evolve towards
sustainable development. FTA and Grand Societal Challenges: Shaping and Driving
Structural and Systemic Transformations, The 4th. International Seville Conference on
Future Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA), 12-13 May.
Luukkonnen, T., Nedeva. M. (2011) Supporting ‘Frontier Research’: The Limitations of Peer Review.
Science and Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Maddock, S. (2011) Role of Central Government in Supporting Innovation in Public Services, ESRC
seminar on Innovation in public service, Bath, 10 February.
Maddock, S. (2011) Place Based Innovation- Locality Ecosystems for Social innovation. Social
Innovation Conference, Vienna, 22 September.
Maddock, S. (2011) Provocation on Incentivising a new breed of innovative academics. 2011 HE
Engage Conference, Bristol, 28 November.
Malik, K. (2011) Public R&D grant support and its impact on firm strategy.The XXII ISPIM Innovation
Management Conference. Hamburg, Germany. 12-15 June.
Massini, S., Lewin, A., Manning, S., Peeters, C. (2011) The Ever Changing Logic of Global Outsourcing
Decisions: Client Strategies, Path Dependencies, and Industry Dynamics. AIB Meeting.
Nagoya, Japan. 25-28 June.
Massini, S., Perm-Ajchariyawong, N., Lewin, A. (2011) Global Sourcing Strategy, Offshoring
Exploratory and Exploitative Innovation, and Firm Performance. Nagoya, Japan. 25-28 June.
Massini, S., Lewin, A., Manning, S., (2011) Global Sourcing and the Reorganization of Firms,
Industries and Employment. 27 th EGOS Colloquium. Gothenburg, 6-9 July.
Massini, S., Lewin, A. (2011) Why is China Competing with India for Global Sourcing of Innovation
Academy of Management Conference. San Antonio, Texas, 12-17 August.
Massini, S., Lewin, A., Peeters, C. (2011) Time Efficiency in Implementing Management Innovations:
The role of absorptive capacity routines and attention directing mechanisms. Academy of
Management Conference. San Antonio, Texas, 12-17 August.
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Massini, S., Lewin, A., Manning, S., Peeters, C. (2011) The Ever Changing Logic of Global Outsourcing
Decisions: Client Strategies, Path Dependencies, and Industry Dynamics. 8th ENEF Meeting
Strategy & Economics of the Firm. Strasbourg, France, 7-8 September.
Massini, S., Filiou, D. (2011) Exploration and Exploitation Alliances in Bio-Pharma: Do they Increase
Innovation Performance ISSTI (the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and
Innovation. Edinburgh, 26 September.
Massini, S. (2011) Internal and External Absorptive Capacity Routines: The Role of Individuals and
Attention Directing Mechanisms in Implementing Management Innovation. University of
Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, on 23 November.
McMeekin, A. (2011) Emergent Eco-Innovation Systems and Problem Sequences. 2nd International
Conference of Sustainability Transitions. Lund, Sweden, 13-15 June.
Metcalfe, J. S. (2011) Introductory presentation on rationales for innovation policy. Innovation
Policy Seminar, London, 01 February.
Metcalfe, J.A. (2011) Schumpeter and the Theory of Economic Evolution (One Hundred Years after
the Theory of Economic Development). European Association of Evolutionary Political
Economy (EAEPE), Vienna, Austria, 27-30 October.
Miles, I. (2011) Service Innovation. ESRC seminar on Innovation in public service, Bath, 10 February.
Miozzo, M. (2011) Acquisitions of science based firms and innovation. University of Alcala de
Henares, Spain, 20 October.
Miozzo, M. (2011) Acquisitions of science based firms and innovation. Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Spain, 21 October.
Miozzo, M. (2011) Cross-border acquisitions of science-based firms: their effect on innovation in the
acquired firm and the local science and technology system. Presentation at the Department
of Economics, University of Buenos Aires, 05 December.
Mylan, J. (2011) Squeezed Out Eco-Innovation in the Orange Juice Production-Consumption
System. 2nd International Conference of Sustainability Transitions. Lund, Sweden, 13-15
June.
Nedeva, M. (2011) Peer review as an organisational practice: variance and selection outcomesPeer
Review Practices and Risk-taking in Funding Path-breaking Research. 01 April, Stockholm,
Sweden.
Nedeva, M. (2011) Public Sciences and Change: science dynamics revisited. Invited seminar at the
Research Policy Institute, the University of Lund, 04 April.
Nedeva, M., Glaser, J. (2011) Studying the Impact of Research Funding Schemes: From the
Construction of Opportunities to Attributable Change. Science and Innovation Policy
Conference, Atlanta, 15-17 September.
Nedeva, M. (2011) Universities as a crossroad: between ‘academic capitalism’ and ‘the dawn of the
dons. New Institutional Imperatives, The Third Mission and the Contemporary University,
University of Sheffield, 25 November.
Nugroho, Y. (2011) Renewing viability, improving livelihood. Unveiling innovation in the third sector:
Evidence from Southeast Asia. Simon and Hallsworth Celebration Lunch. Manchester, 04
July.
Pinto, H., Fernández-Esquinas, M., Uyarra, E. (2011) When Companies look for Research:
Knowledge Interactions in Andalusia. Third Research Seminar on Regional Geographies of
KIBS, Algarve, Portugal, 14-15 October.
Popper, R. (2011) Wild Cards and Weak Signals Informing and Shaping the European Research
Area (ERA). 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis
(FTA) on FTA and Grand Societal Challenges – Shaping and Driving Structural and Systemic
Transformations. Seville, 12-13 May.
Popper. R. (2011) Developing national innovation systems and the role of science and technology
strategies: The Venezuelan Experience. Invited speaker at PMI2 Connect Policy Dialogue
Developing national innovation systems: the role of science and technology strategies.
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Organised by The British Council in conjunction with the National Research Foundation,
UAE Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel, United Arab Emirates, 27 February – 2 March.
Popper, R. (2011) New Instruments in Foresight Studies. Research Workshop Foresight and
Science, Technology and Innovation Policies: Best Practices, Russia's Higher School of
Economics (HSE) Moscow, 13 October.
Popper, R. (2011) Horizon Scanning Methodology. Better Workforce Planning and Improving
People's Lives, London: 10 October, Leeds: 12 October.
Pryce, M. (2011) Costing Complex Products, Operations & Support. 8th Annual Acquisition
Research Symposium, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 11-12 May.
Rigby, A. J. (2011) Presentation of the EC Feasibility study on future EU support to public
procurement of innovative solutions project (November 2010-November 2011). Public
Procurement of Innovation, Facing Societal Challenges, Delivering Better Public Services &
Supporting SMEs To Innovate. Turin, Italy, 27-28 June 2011.
Saritas, O. (2011) Western Balkan 2020: Innovation Foresight & Foresightful Innovation for
Prosperity. 12th Bled Foresight Conference on Governance of Fear and Prosperity, Bled,
Slovenia, 3-4 March.
Saritas, O. (2011). Systemic Foresight Methodology. FTA ’11 – The 4th International Seville
Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis, Seville, 12-13 May.
Saritas, O. (2011) Horizon Scanning: Seeing the invisible and making sense of it. Horizon Scanning
for Business Intelligence, University of Exeter, 08 July.
Saritas, O. (2011) Foresight as a source of innovation and competitiveness. Innoprom-2011
International Foresight, Science & Industrial Innovaitons, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 15 July.
Saritas, O. (2011) Systemic Foresight Methodology: Principles and Practice. YIRCoF ’11 – Yeditepe
International Research Conference on Foresight and Futures, Istanbul, 24-26 August.
Saritas, O. (2011) Systemic Foresight Methodology: Advancements in Theory and Practice.
Presented at the Centre for Enterprise, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CENTIENT) at
the University of West England, 09 November.
Saur-Amaral, I., Nugroho, Y., Rego, A. (2011) Innov@ tion Intelligence: Advances in Understanding
Knowledge Sourcing in Social Networks. 2011 ISPIM Conference, Hamburg, 12-15 June.
Saur-Amaral, I., Nugroho, Y., Rego, A. (2011) Sourcing Innov@tion Intelligence from LinkedIn
Discussion Groups: An Exploratory Study, 41st R&D Management, Linkopping, 28-30 June.
Shapira, P. (2011) Participated as a discussant. International conference in honour of Prof. Hariolf
Grupp. Organised by Germany's Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation
(Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation), Mannheim, 03 March.
Shapira, P. (2011) Trajectories of nanotechnology research and innovation. Nanotechnology
Winter School. Pinsot, France, 28 March – 01 April.
Shapira, P. (2011) Emerging Technology Clusters: The Case of Nanodistricts – Path Dependency or
New Pathways Bucharest Dialogue - Economic Clusters, Knowledge Economy, and
Development Strategies, Bucharest, Romania, 27-29 May.
Shapira, P. (2011) Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness in Small Open Economies:
Insights for Northern Ireland. DETI Research Agenda Workshop. Belfast, 30 June.
Shapira, P. (2011) Technology upgrading, diffusion and transfer: Building capabilities for
innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises. Congress on Innovation Policy and
Technology Transfer. Universidad de San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru, 06 September.
Shapira, P., Wang, J. (2011) Funding Acknowledgements Analysis – An Enhanced Tool to Investigate
Research Sponsorship Impacts. 1 st Global Text Mining Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, 14
September.
Shapira, P, (2011) Is the U.S. still a leading benchmark for European science International
Workshop on Perspectives Towards a European Science System, Berlin, Germany, 06
October.
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Shapira, P. (2011) Mobilising Assets and Capabilities for Innovation: Insights from Small Open
Economies. Northern Economic Futures Commission, Port of Tyne, South Shields, 13
December.
Tether, B.S. (2011): Talk on Service Design and the Design of Services, (By invitation) Japan Industrial
Design Promotion Agency, Tokyo, Japan, 19 December.
Tether, B.S. (2011): Service Design in the UK, (By invitation) One day conference on service design,
National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Tokyo, Japan, 20 December.
Teichler, T. (2011) A critical reflection about the debate on sovereign wealth funds, the control of
foreign direct investment in strategic industries and its policy implications. Global
governance: political authority in transition, 52nd Convention of the International Studies
Association. Canada, Montreal, 16-19 March.
Thomas, D. (2011) Developing indicators and a typology of frontier-potential researchers to
understand better the impact of an ERC funding scheme. ENID STI Indicators Conference
2011, Rome, 07-09 September.
Uyarra, E. (2011) Innovation through Public Procurement. Policy Dialogue Workshop Small
country perspectives on Innovation and Internationalisation. Centre Henri Tudor
Luxembourg, 21 January.
Uyarra, E. (2011) Innovating through public procurement. Presentation to the workshop Strictly
Sustainability, Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry, 29 March.
Uyarra, E. (2011) Reframing Regional Innovation Systems. Presentation to the academic
colloquium Reframing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation & Transition. Cardiff
University, 4-5 April.
Uyarra, E. (2011) Regional innovation systems revisited: networks, institutions, policy and
complexity. Regional Studies Annual conference - ‘Regional Development and Policy–
Challenges’, Choices and Recipients, Newcastle, May.
Uyarra, E. (2011) Competitive dialogue and contractual design fostering innovation and need
analysis. Presentation to the 1 st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Public Procurement,
Rome, 6-7 June.
Uyarra, E. (2011) Innovation policies in Regional Innovation Systems. Presentation to the
OPENLOC workshop on knowledge and production networks for sustainable local
development, Trento, Italy, 12 December.
Uyarra, E., Edler, J., Georghiou, L., Yeow, J. (2011) The innovation impact of public procurement:
evidence from UK public sector supplier survey. European Association of Evolutionary
Political Economy (EAEPE) Conference, Vienna, Austria, 27-30 October.
Wang, J. Shapira, P. (2011) The Contribution of Public Funding to Science: An Investigation of
Research Quality. Science and Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
Yeow, J., Uyarra, E., Gee, S. (2011) Sustainable innovation through public procurement - From
product to integrated service. XXII ISPIM Conference – Sustainability in Innovation:
Innovation Management Challenges, Hamburg, Germany, 12-15 June.
Yeow, J. (2011) Project-based organising and individualisation. European Sociological Association
(ESA). Geneva, 7-10 September. http://www.esa10thconference.com/
Youtie, J., Carley, S., Shapria, P., Corley, E, Scheufele, D. (2011) Perceptions and Actions: Examining
the Relationship Between Societal Perceptions and Citation Actions of Nanotechnology
Scientists. Science and Innovation Policy Conference, Atlanta 15-17 September.
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Conferences organised by MIoIR
Shapira, P; Drugan, S. (2011) Open Invitation to the International Co-Lab Junior Researcher Panel
Manchester-Atlanta-Beijing Innovation Co-Lab, Manchester, 20-23 June
Barker, K. Laredo, P; Drugan, S. (2011) EU SPRI Network PhD Conference, Manchester, 28-30 June.
Popper, R., Teichler, T., Drugan, S. (2011) iKnow Final Conference, 27-28 October, Brussels.
Saritas, O. (2011) Conference Co-Chair of YIRCoF ’11: Yeditepe International Research Conference
on Foresight: Theory Building in Foresight and Futures Studies, Management Application
and Research Centre (MARC), Yeditepe University, Istanbul, 24-26 August.
Workshops organised by MIoIR Staff
23-24 February 2011 Strengthening Greater Manchester’s economic base through science
innovation and research and development. Northern Way/Commission for the New
Economy Developmental Panel
31 March 2011 Social Media and International Development. MIoIR in collaboration with Centre for
Development Informatics. Harold Hankins Building, MIoIR.
31 March 2011 Innovation in Internet new media and Third Sector-Yanuar Nugroho with CDI and
IPEG
01 April 2011 Communities of Practice, Workshop. MIoIR in collaboration with the Herbert Simon
Institute. Harold Hankins Building, MIoIR.
01 April 2011 Peer Review Practices and Risk-taking in Funding Path-breaking Research. Coorganised
research workshop with ETLA (Maria Nedeva, Tertu Luukkonen), Stockholm,
Sweden.
07 April 2011 Closing the Procurement Gap: The costly failure to mobilise sustainable procurement
for innovation. MIoIR in collaboration with the Sustainable Consumption Institute.
Organised by the Sustainable Consumption Institute, The University of Manchester and the
UNDERPINN Project, held at the Department for Business and Skills, London.
14 April 2011 The Recovery Approach in mental health and other services - Su Maddock to chair
with AQUA Advancing Quality Alliance.
08 June 2011 Society and Third Mission ESRC Seminar Series The Third Mission and the
Contemporary Universities. Co-organised by Tim Vorley, Fumi Kitagawa and Richard
Courtney). Held at the University of Leicester.
14 June 2011 NanoCode UK Experts Workshop (Sally Randles, Philip Shapira)
21 October 2011 Procurement and Innovation: Underpinning the debate. Background Paper
Forum organised within the UNDERPINN project, Harold Hankins Building, MIoIR.
26 November 2011 Policy, Politics and Third Mission ESRC Seminar Series The Third Mission and
the Contemporary Universities. Co-organised by Tim Vorley, Fumi Kitagawa and Richard
Courtney). Held at the University of Sheffield.
Media Interviews and articles– Dissemination
Aylen, J. (27 May 2011) The future of the Teesside Cast Products steel plant. BBC Radio Tees
interviewed by John Foster.
Aylen, J. (03 July 2011) Wildfire and Climate Change BBC Countryfile, Jonathan was interviewed by
John Craven.
Aylen, J. (03 September 2011) The cost of a recent forest fire at Swinley Forest, Berkshire. BBC Radio
Berkshire.
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Georghiou, L. (2011) View from the Top - Common cause promises political bonus for small
countries. Research Europe.
Nugroho, Y. (30 March 2011) Intelligence Law and social media. The Jakarta Post.
Nugroho, Y., Laksmi, S. (30 April 2011) Social media in civil society – citizens in @ction, the Jakarta
Post.
Nugroho, Y. (27 October 2011) The role of research in the development in Indonesia. MetroTV
Indonesia.
Edler, J. (2011) Interview with Jakob Edler on Public Procurement in Innovation. Navigate Change –
A Guide Book: How New Approaches to Public Procurement will Create New Markets
Edler, J. (22 June 2011) Buying Smart. Public Service Review: UK Science and Technology, issue 2 (p
29).
External Committee appointments
Aylen, J. Member, the Rolling Committee of the Materials Science and Technology Division of the
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
Butler, J. Member of the Organising Committee, European Doctoral Summer Schools in
Technology Management
Butler, J. Member, International Advisory Committee, International Society for Professional
Innovation Management (ISPIM)
Butler, J. Member, Board of Directors, and Industry sub-committee, International Association for
Management of Technology (IAMOT)
Butler, J. Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, EuroMOT Conferences
Chittenden, F. Chair of Education Policy for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Chittenden F. Chair of the Small and Medium Accountancy Practitioners (SMPs) and Small and
Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Task Force of the Federation of European Accountants (FEE).
Consoli, D. Council Member, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).
Cox, D. Honorary Secretary, Association of Research Centres in the Social Sciences
Cunningham, P. Member, ETEPS AISBL Management Committee.
Cunningham, P. Member, ERAWATCH ASBL Policy Board.
Dewick, P. Member, Scottish Executive’s Review College.
Edler, J. Member, Economic and Social Research Council Peer Review College.
Edler, J. Member, International Audit Panel of the German Conference of University Rectors.
Flanagan, K., Manchester representative to the ETEPS AISBL (European Techno-Economic Policy
Support Network) General Assembly, Brussels, 27 May.
Flanagan, K., vocal del Tribunal Titular de juzgar la tesis doctoral de (member of the examining
tribunal for the thesis defence of) Edurne Magro Montero, Doctorado en Competitividad
Empresarial y Desarrollo Economico, Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales,
Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastian, November 2011.
Gagliardi D. Member, Board of Directors of the “Local Development and Global Dynamics” Doctoral
School, University of Trento, Italy.
Georghiou, L. Chair European Commission ERA Rationales Expert Group.
Georghiou, L. Member, Treasury/BERR Committee on Role of SMEs in Public Procurement (Glover
Committee) and Chair Expert Group on Innovation and Supply Chain Issues.
Georghiou, L. NESTA Innovation Index Expert Group.
Georghiou, L. DIUS Scenarios Expert Group.
Georghiou, L. Opponent for Max Rolfstam PhD, University of Lund, Sweden.
Georghiou, L. Member, High Level European Forum on Forward Looking Activities (EFFLA)
Georghiou, L. Appointed to the Academia Europaea.
Jones, B. External Examiner for Doctoral Commission, Dibvision de Ciencas de la Educacio,
University of Barcelona: ongoing.
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Massini, S. Expert Committee Member, BSI (British Standards Institution) on Outsourcing and
representing the UK view on the new international standard for Outsourcing.
Massini, S. Member, ESRC Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures – Research Grant Proposals
Commissioning Panel
McMeekin, A. Programme Advisory Committee, DEFRA Renewable Materials LINK.
Miles, Ian. Leadership role at the Economics of Innovation Institute at the University-Higher School
of Economics in Moscow.
Miozzo, M. Commissioning Panel ESRC Rising Powers Networks and Embedded Visiting Fellowships
Miozzo, M. External Examiner for the MSc Management programme of Tanaka Business School,
Imperial College London.
Miozzo, M. Member, Academic Peer Review Group, DFID/ESRC Growth Programme, July 2011
Fellow of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership, Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk
University, Boston, USA
Nedeva, M. Member, ESRC Peer Review College.
Nedeva, M. Guest Fellow at the Research Policy Institute, the University of Lund.
Nugroho, Y. Member of staff, Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester.
Nugroho, Y. Member of advisory group and selection committee, Ford Foundation of Indonesia.
Ramlogan, R. Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School.
Ramlogan, R. Member, Academic Peer Review Group, DFID/ESRC Growth Programme, July 2011
Shapira, P. member of the Board of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging
Technologies (S.Net)
Shapira, P. Chairperson, US National Academies Committee, which will examine 21st Century
Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Membership of Editorial Boards
Butler, J. Managing Editor of R&D Management.
Cunningham, P. Editorial Board, Science and Public Policy.
Dewick, P. Editorial Board, International Journal of Management Studies & Research.
Georghiou, L. Editorial Board - Research Evaluation, Sage Evaluation Journal, Japanese Innovation,
Enterprise and Higher Education, Prometheus, International Journal of Technology Transfer
and Commercialisation, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Technological
Forecasting and Social Change, Evidence and Policy.
Kitagawa, F. Manchester University Press Editorial Committee
Malik, K. Book Review Editor of R&D Management.
Randles, S. Editorial Board – Technology Analysis and Strategic Management journal
Saritas, O. Editor foresight journal
Saritas, O. Editorial Council Member of ФОРСАЙТ (Russian language Foresight journal)
Saritas, O. Guest Editor, Edited a special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change on the
FTA 2011 - 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis:
FTA and Grand Societal Challenges shaping and driving structural and systemic
transformations (2011).
Shapira, P. Editorial boards of Research Policy and Journal of the Knowledge Economy.
Upham, P. Editorial board of International Journal of Sustainable Society (IJSSoc).
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Visiting Researchers and Fellows to MIoIR 2011
Surname Forename Country Research Interests Arrival Date Departure Date
Kendall Andrew UK Centre for Workforce Intelligence His research is Strategic
issue related to the health and social care workforce. His
supervisor is
28 January 10 27 January 11
Jeon Hoseok Korea National Research Foundation of Korea. His research
interest is The relationship to input/output factors in
national R&D programmes in the UK. His supervisor is Kate
Barker
Montenegro Perini Ivan Colombia Visitor from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
(Colombia) and is going to contribute to iKNOW project's
activities related to the mapping of social sciences and
humanities (SSH) research in Europe and the world. His
research interests are in Social Sciences, Business
Management and the Environment
Li LongYi China South China University of Technology, Guangzhou. His
research interest is Technology management and policy.
His supervisor is Jonathan Aylen
Ghisa Mihaela Romania University of Bucharest. Her research is Foresight and the
use of futures techniques in developing public policy. Her
supervisor is Dr Ozcan Saritas
Carmona-Lavado Antonio Spain Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. His research is
Service Innovation. His supervisor is Prof Ian Miles
28 December 10 28 December 11
31 January 11 31 December 11
27 January 11 31 December 11
01 February 11 31 July 11
01 February 11 31 July 11
Laksmi Shita Indonesia Hivos. Her research is Social media and activism in
Indonesia. Her supervisor is Prof Ian Miles
13 March 11 12 April 11
Mizuno Toshiaki Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology (MEXT), Government of Japan. His research is
Suitable approach to promote international cooperation in
science technology and innovation policy. His supervisor is
Dr Kieron Flanagan
01 April 11 31 March 12
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Surname Forename Country Research Interests Arrival Date Departure Date
Hwang Byung Yong South Korea Visitor from the Korean Institute of S&T Evaluation and 20 May 11 19 May 12
Planning (KISTEP), Seoul, Korea.. His research is Research
trend analysis. He will be here for 12 month and his
supervisor is Ozcan Saritas
Bloch Harry Australia Visitor from Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 01 June 11 12 August 11
Western Australia. His research is the Development of the
theory of the firm towards incoprp[orating evolutionary
change. He will be here for two and half months and is
visiting Stan Metcalfe.
de Freitas Eduardo Brazil Universidade de Brasília, Brasilía, Brazil. His research is 01 June 11 30 November 11
Technology foresight in the defence sector. He will be here
for six months and his supervisor is Andrew James.
van Rooij Arjan The
Radboud University, Nijmegen Faculty of Science 06 June 11 24 June 11
Netherlands Innovation and Society (ISIS), The Netherlands. His
research is How to take the historian’s toolbox into
innovation and management research. He will be here for
18 days and his supervisor is Jonathan Aylen
Rodrigo Job Spain University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca. His research is 04 July 11 03 August 11
The influence of social capital on firms' entrepreneurial
strategies. His supervisor is Elvira Uyarra
Martinez Roca Vicente Spain Ainia Centro Tecnlógico, Valencía. His research is 04 July 11 04 October 11
Legislative foresight regarding potential food safety risks.
His supervisor is Dr Rafael Popper
Peña Isidro Spain Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Cuidad Real. His 14 July 11 05 October 11
research is Human Resource Management. His Supervisor
is Dr Dimitri Gagliardi
Ordaz Carmen Spain University of Cadiz. Her research is in Strategy. Her
supervisor is Marcela Miozzo
18 July 11 18 July 12
Ulnicane-Ozolina Inga The
Netherlands
University of Twente as part of the Eu-spri PhD Circulation.
The title of her thesis is Influence of institute governance
on international collaboration in nano S&T in Europe. Her
supervisor is Prof Jakob Edler.
14 September 11 24 December 11
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Surname Forename Country Research Interests Arrival Date Departure Date
Bovet Alain Switzerland Alain is from EHSS Paris as part of the Swiss National 01 September 11 31 August 12
Foundation post doc Fellowship. His supervisor is Sally
Randles. He will spend his time between Manchester and
Lyons for 12 months. His research is Depoliticisation
processes in public controversies on Nanotechnologies in
UK and France.
Ren He China He is from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He is 01 September 11 31 August 12
here for one year and his research is the analysis of match
between company’s innovation strategies and national
policy, the prediction model of companies’ performance.
His supervisor is Andrew James.
Fischer Bruno Brandao Spain Bruno is from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 01 September 11 30 November 11
Spain. Bruno is here for three months under the Eu-SPRI
PhD circulation scheme. His thesis is Towards a dynamic
evaluation model of firms engaged in international R&D
cooperation programmes. His supervisor is Prof Jakob
Edler.
Teubel Morris Israel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research is An 17 October 11 28 October 11
evolutionary approach to venture capital policy. His
supervisor is Philip Shapira.
Rao Kai Italy Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. His area of research is
Technology Transfer. His supervisor is Jeff Butler.
07 November 11 02 February 12
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MIoIR Doctoral Students 2011
Student Name Supervisor Co-Supervisor Thesis Title
Carlos Ramos Perez Paul Cunningham Abdullah Gok Additionality and evalution in innovation policy
Clara Weisshaar Jakob Edler Sally Gee Procurement, innovation and health services
Lilian Kishimbo Duncan Thomas Philippe Laredo Corporate Social Responsibilty
Amir Saleh Haghayegh
Khorasani
Oscar de Bruijn Andrew Whitworth Innovation and Services
Tasmini Mahbub Kate Barker Maria Nedeva Regulation and policy - the case of the banking sector in
Bangladesh
Martin Wain Jakob Edler Phil Shapira Innovation policy and cities
Katia Pina Elaine Ferneley TBC Innovation and services - corporate services
Sharifa Al-Harthy Maria Nedeva Kate Barker The characterisation of the entrepreneurial University
Mirta Amalia Ian Miles Yanuar Nugoho Knowledge Management in services companies
Rumana Bukht Sally Randles Philip Shapira Nanotechnolgoies and corporate responsibility: The case of food
and food packaging and the role of the retail sector
Justyna Dabrowska Ronnie Ramlogan Luke Georghiou /
advisor - Prof. Mike
Luger
Science parks' role in regional economic development:
Implementing a performance measurement system
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Student Name Supervisor Co-Supervisor Thesis Title
Mohammad Hajhashem Khaleel Malik Hugh Cameron New Product Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Evgeny Klochikhin Philip Shapira Kieron Flanagan The development of nanotechnology comparing Russia with China
Vajk Lukacs De Pereny Martens Marcela Miozzo Ronnie Ramlogan New industrial policy for firm engagement and upgrading in global
value chains: Peruvian Alpaca Fibre
Jaime H. Sierra Gonzalez Marcela Miozzo Panos Desyllas Financing for New Ventures
Susana Thomas Jakob Edler Elvira Uyarra Procurement and Innovation: the case for education
Jack Willis Andrew James A multi-criteria stakeholder analysis of competing green
technologies and the implications of policy on the decarbonisation
of the power sector in the UK
Hamood Al-Habsi Khaleel Malik Silvia Massini The impact of culture upon technology transfer management
within and between multinational enterprises in the Omani oil
sector
Carlos Ferreira Sally Randles Daniel Brockington
(SED)
Biodiversity offsets: An economic valuation framework towards
"No Net Loss"
Samit Ganguly Paul Dewick Andy McMeekin Emerging technologies for facilitating sustainable agriculture: A
comparative study of UK and India
Danny Moloney Kate Barker Fumi Kitagawa Creative Entrepreneurs and the role of Media City
Ambarin Khan Silvia Massini Phil Gamlen Absorptive capacity in practice
Yanchao Li Luke Georghiou John Rigby Potential in China for demand-side innovation policy including
public procurement
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Student Name Supervisor Co-Supervisor Thesis Title
Omid Omidvar Tehrani Jakob Edler Khaleel Malik Social capital, absorptive capacity and innovation
Lasandahasi De Silva Ray Oakey Elvira Uyarra Business start-up motives of entrepreneurs who own small and
medium enterprises in developed and developing countries
Leonie Dendler Paul Dewick Kevin Anderson / MACE Meta-Labelling, retailers and Sustainability
Beatrice D'ippolito Marcela Miozzo Davide Consoli Investment strategy, cooperation and innovativeness: Analysing
the relationship between venture capital services and high
potential entrepreneurs
Robert Kin Shing Lai Ian Miles Sally Gee Learning to innovate: how Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM) organisations build capabilities through strategic
allicances
Kalle Stahl Nielsen Jakob Edler Duncan Thomas Multi-level governance and research policy: The case of ERA-NETS
Lisa Pace Ian Miles Sally Randles Adoption of energy efficiency technologies in the hotels sector of
Malta
Thomas Schroder Sally Randles Alan Warde (SOSS) Sustainability narratives: local knowledge, local action and
implications for consumption
Jimmy Tanaya Sally Randles Yanuar Nugroho Corporate social responsibility as a strategic business model: The
case of palm oil plantations in Indonesia
Efthymia Amanatidou Michael Keenan Luke Georghiou Evaluation of the effects of technology foresight initiatives
Giulio De Durante Silvia Massini John Murphy (MOMS) The role of airline network branding
Annunziata De Felice Jonathan Aylen Ronnie Ramlogan Innovation, clusters and geo-agglomeration
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Student Name Supervisor Co-Supervisor Thesis Title
David Weber Andrew James Jakob Edler The relationship between foreign owned firms and Chinese
universities
Elizabeth Afari-Owusu Philip Shapira Ronnie Ramlogan The insertion of developing countries in global market chains
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Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) is the research centre of excellence in the
Manchester Business School (MBS) and The University of Manchester in the field of innovation and
science studies. With more than 50 full members and a range of associated academics from across the
University, MIoIR is Europe’s largest and one of the World’s leading research centres in this field.
The Institute’s key strengths lie in the linkage and cross-fertilisation of economics, management and
policy around innovation and science. Building on forty years of tradition in innovation and science
studies, the Institute’s philosophy is to combine academic rigour with concrete practical relevance for
policy and management. This includes broad engagement with and research for policy makers and
societal and industrial stakeholders in the Manchester City Region, across the UK and internationally.
MIoIR is also firmly committed to a range of teaching activities within and beyond MBS and integrates a
strong and successful PhD programme into its research activities. The Institute has a visitor programme
for academics and management and policy practitioners and provides a range of popular and high level
executive education courses on evaluation, foresight and S&T Policy.
For more information please visit http://research.mbs.ac.uk/innovation
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