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Some of our research is carried out through formally funded research projects, and in interaction with various research networks we host or participate in.

The current inter-related and inter-disciplinary research themes of the research centre are:

Intellectual property rights
Institutions, markets and regulation
Regional and sectoral innovation systems
Measuring innovation management performance

Visit our Research Video page to find all the videos interviews with our CIMR members discussing their research works.

CIMR Research in Focus curated blogs:

Entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion (20 April 2021)
Reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic (17 May 2021)
The economic and ethical implications of digital technologies (7 June 2021)
Research and industrial policy for the 21st Century (8 July 2021)
Creating entrepreneurial universities (12 August 2021)
Entrepreneurship at CIMR (7 September 2021)
Evaluating public policy (8 October 2021)
Creating better outcomes for society (3 November 2021)
Looking ahead to 2022 (13 January 2022)
TRIGGER final report published and using new technologies to generate impact (30 March 2022)

Mapping the distribution of Internet of Things competences across European regions

In a recent study published in Papers in Regional Science, we proposed an original methodology to map the regional distribution of IoT competences in Europe.

New book: Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice

This new book, edited by Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Helen Lawton Smith, breaks new ground in its central focus on the experiences of women innovators in different geographic and institutional contexts in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America

Exploring relations between Triple, Quadruple and quintuple helix models

The new special issue of Triple Helix 9 (2022) is a response to the Leydesdorff and Lawton Smith (2022) paper published in Triple Helix Triple, Quadruple, and Higher Order Helices: Historical Phenomena and (Neo-) evolutionary Models.

Is a mix of policy instruments better than individual instruments to support business innovation performance?

Our recent study published in Research Policy presents a comparison of the effects of innovation vouchers and technology and innovation advisory services on various measures of business performance.

The contribution of students to regional economies: reframing the regional innovation systems approach – Shiri M. Breznitz, Helen Lawton Smith and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen

The starting point for this special issue was the lack of analysis of the contribution of university students to regional economies. Collectively the papers offer an understanding of the effects of student activity upon the knowledge, skill and entrepreneurial bases of regions.

New book – The digital innovation race: conceptualizing the emerging new world order

The main theme of this book is digital transformation, with artificial intelligence at its core. It shows how this transformation upsets the world pecking order as China catches up with the US and as tech giants from the two countries take on key roles in the digital innovation race.

CIMR Research in Focus 10: TRIGGER final report published and using new technologies to generate impact

CIMR Research in Focus is a quarterly series presenting a curated list of blogs from the Centre of Innovation Management Research. Here we discuss our main achievements in the first three months of 2022.

Governments’ use of crowdsourcing during COVID-19: some insights from a study of crowdsourcing challenges

In our article published in the Public Administration Review’s Viewpoint series, we aim to understand to what extent have the governments worldwide and public administrations more generally used crowdsourcing to tackle issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

How does academic research generate arts and culture-related impact?

In a recent report, Dr Federica Rossi, in collaboration with NCACE, has carried out an exploratory analysis of impact case studies submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, with the objective to identify the key actors and processes involved in the generation of arts and culture-related impact.

What interventions should universities implement to increase their diversification or specialization in knowledge exchange?

In their new paper, Federica Rossi and Abhijit Sengupta analyse what kinds of interventions are associated with greater diversification, or conversely greater specialization, in universities’ knowledge exchange profiles.

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