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Dr. Ning Baines is a lecturer at the School of Business and Law, De Montfort University, as well as a fellow researcher at CIMR (Centre for Innovation Management Research). In this short video, Dr. Baines introduces one of her co-authored working papers, Disability entrepreneurship research: review and critical reflection through the lens of individual-opportunity nexus.

CIMR Research

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

CIMR Research in Brief video series:

Episode 1: Prof. Grazia Ietto Gillies – The economics of transnational corporations. Link to video (6’48”)
Episode 2: Melina Padayachy – The Innovator’s method. Link to video (2’56”)
Episode 3: Dr. Ning Baines – Disability entrepreneurship research. Link to video (5’21”)
Episode 4: Prof. Rinaldo Evangelista – Regional innovation performance and EU science and technology policy. Link to video (9’54”)
Episode 5: Dr. Andrea Filippetti – Individual risk attitudes and local unemployment. Link to video (11’45”)
Episode 6: Prof. Suma Athreye – Chinese and Indian FDI after the financial crisis of 2008. Link to video (12’41”)
Episode 7: Dr Peter Ross – The impact of the Covid pandemic on NHS PET-CT scanning. Link to video (11’07”)
Episode 8: Saverio Romeo – The emerging quantum technology industry: Capital cities, entrepreneurship and policies. Link to video (7’48”)
Episode 9: Annalisa Caloffi – Evaluating policies for innovation intermediaries. Link to video (7’33”)

Research Impact: Developing Analytics and Policy (RIDAP): Briefing Paper Number 1

CIMR PhD Research in Focus video series:

Episode 1: Ayse Seyyide – Refugee entrepreneurship. Link to video (3’22”)
Episode 2: Doyin Olorunfemi – Entrepreneurial learning. Link to video (3’20”)
Episode 3: Dina Mansour – Institutional entrepreneurship in Egypt. Link to video (8’12”)
Episode 4: Lida Metallinou – China’s outward direct foreign investment. Link to blog
Episode 5: Thanos Fragkandreas – Innovation and income inequality. Link to video (6’19”)

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)

New CIMR Research in Brief video: Annalisa Caloffi on Evaluating policies for innovation intermediaries

Dr Annalisa Caloffi is an Applied Economist from the University of Florence, Italy. In this short video, she introduces her working paper, co-authored with Federica Rossi and Margherita Russo, on designing performance-based incentives for innovation intermediaries.

CIMR Research in Focus: Evaluating Public Policy

CIMR Research in Focus is a monthly series presenting a curated list of blogs from the Centre of Innovation Management Research. This month the topic is CIMR researchers’ work on public policy evaluation.

New CIMR Research in Brief video: Saverio Romeo on Quantum Technology Entrepreneurship

In this short video, Mr. Romeo shares his research (with Helen Lawton Smith, Erran Carmel and John Slater) about quantum technology, an emerging but significant technology that may shape our future.

Do different fields of knowledge lead to different types of knowledge transfer? A study of public research organisations in the UK

In this paper, the authors identify different profiles of engagement in knowledge transfer (KT)of public research organisations (PROs), and discuss why they are linked to PROs’ specialisation in different fields of knowledge.

CIMR Research in Focus: Entrepreneurship at CIMR

CIMR Research in Focus is a monthly series presenting a curated list of blogs from the Centre of Innovation Management Research. This month the topic is CIMR’s engagement in entrepreneurship teaching and support.

Transnational companies in the digital era. A reconceptualization

In a new article published in Critical Perspectives on
International Business, Prof. Grazia Ietto Gillies considers the implications of digitalisation and organisational change for the concept of transnationality and its measurement.

New CIMR Research in Brief video: Dr Peter Ross on the impact of the Covid pandemic on NHS PET-CT scanning

In this short interview, Dr. Ross introduces us to his recent research – in collaboration with NHS England, UCL and SWUFE – about how the first wave of the Covid-19 in 2020 impacted NHS England’s PET-CT scanning.

Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?

In their new paper published in Regional Studies, Federica Rossi, Ning Baines and Helen Lawton Smith explain which features of regional economies make them more likely to retain and attract newly created university spinout companies.

CIMR Research in Focus: Creating Entrepreneurial Universities

CIMR Research in Focus is a monthly series presenting a curated list of blogs from the Centre of Innovation Management Research. This month the topic is our work on universities’ engagement with business.

New CIMR Research in Brief video: Prof. Suma Athreye on Chinese and Indian FDI after the financial crisis of 2008

In this video, Prof. Suma Athreye discusses one of her latest papers, “Financial Crisis of 2008 and Outward Foreign Investments from China and India”.

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