Two members of CIMR, Jacqueline Winstanley (Visiting Fellow) and Helen Lawton Smith (CIMR Director) are respectively the project lead and the academic lead on a new research project sponsored by Innovate UK:  the Road to Wonder Enquiry.

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 Autumn term.

In our study published in the Journal of Technology Transfer, we investigate under what conditions it is more effective for public research organisations to vertically integrate knowledge transfer management or to outsource it to specialist providers.

In their paper recently published in Studies in Higher Education, Peter Jelfs and Helen Lawton Smith show that much can be learned from studying all the university spin-offs in a particular region.

This study sheds light on the importance of geography in understanding the support available in the UK for disabled and ethnically diverse entrepreneurs through formal networks which provide specialised support.

The final report of the project “Addressing regional inequalities in innovation opportunities for ethnically diverse and disabled entrepreneurs”, supported by the Regional Studies Association, has been published, and is available to download.

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.

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 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 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.