Manchester Institute of Innovation Research ANNUAL REPORT 

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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