Elvira Uyarra has recently become Executive Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. To celebrate Elvira’s new appointment and her association with CIMR, we have asked her a few questions about her research interests, impact, plans for the future, including her engagement with CIMR.
Category: People
Profiles of individuals connected to CIMR
Welcome to new CIMR member Dr Abdulrahman Al-Surmi
We are delighted to welcome Dr Abdulrahman Al-Surmi, who has recently joined the Department of Management at Birkbeck, University of London as Lecturer in Business Analytics.
An interview with new CIMR member Dr Fumi Kitagawa
To celebrate Fumi joining us, we have asked her a few questions about her research interests, impact, plans for the future, including her engagement with CIMR.
CIMR academic Muthu de Silva promoted to Professor
To celebrate Muthu’s achievement, we have invited her to share with us some reflections on her research interests, research impact, and future plans.
An interview with CIMR academic Ashok Kumar – Recent winner of the PWES Wallerstein Memorial Book Award
To celebrate Ashok’s achievement, we have invited him to talk to us about his book’s key message, beneficiaries, and research plans.
Future entrepreneurs: exploring paradigms in the entrepreneurial learning experience
In the recent book chapter, Prof Helen Lawton Smith and Dr Muthu De Silva present a unique multidimensional approach to supporting future entrepreneurs at Birkbeck University of London, “London’s evening university”.
CIMR PhD Research in Focus: Innovation and income inequality
Dr. Thanos Fragkandreas is one of our newly graduated Ph.D. students. In this short interview, he shares with us his Ph.D. dissertation, a study exploring the relationship between innovation and income inequality.
Studying Business Innovation at Birkbeck: building innovation ecosystems
Leila Kehl is one of our alumni who works as a Plug and Play Tech Center manager in Silicon Valley.
CIMR PhD Research in Focus: China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment
Recent PhD graduate Lida Metallinou discusses her dissertation in International Business and her experience of doing a PhD in Birkbeck’s Department of Management.
Studying Business Innovation at Birkbeck: Creating social value through digital technology
Jeremy Galpin is one of our Alumni who works as a digital social value consultancy lead. In this video, Jeremy talks about his motives to study at Birkbeck, University of London.