Manchester Institute of Innovation Research ANNUAL REPORT 

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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.
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