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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)
Much to celebrate this Summer term (8 July 2022)

Sectors’ analysis: a come-back kid?

Grazia Ietto Gillies argues that sectors are now seen as relevant in innovation and technology studies, after a few decades in which their study was neglected.

Minority Groups in Entrepreneurship: a new Special Issue published in Strategic Change

A Special Issue published in Strategic Change (Guest editors: Carla Susana Marques, Vitor Braga, João J. Ferreira, and Helen Lawton Smith) challenges stereotype images of entrepreneurs by exploring how minority groups contribute to the economic growth of local, regional, and national economies

CIMR Research in Focus 11: Much to celebrate this Summer term

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 2022 Summer term.

The Entrepreneurial University: A comparative analysis of self-reflection tools

The EU-funded THEI2.0 project comparatively analysed the user experiences of two tools designed to support the entrepreneurial university. Prof Colette Henry describes the key takeaways.

New Book: Defence Acquisition and Procurement, by Ron Smith

In his new book, prof. Ron Smith provides an economic analysis of why major weapons systems tend to be delivered late, over budget and unable to meet requirements: how the market structure, demand by the military and supply by the arms firms, shapes the conduct of the agents and generates the poor performance observed.

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.

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.

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