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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 11
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 12
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