Articles tagged with 'AMBS' | University of Manchester

While the existing literature makes important analyses of the technical and economic dimensions of decarbonisation pathways, it gives less attention to real-world implementation processes by the large energy intensive industries (LEIIs), such as stee...

The study was completed on behalf of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and was funded by Research England. The objective was to contribute to an evidence base for an update of the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy (GM LIS).T...

Academics from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) based at AMBS have begun a major three-year study into how personalised treatments can help better tackle cardiovascular diseases.The project, funded by the Economic and Social Re...

Sustainable farming encompasses diverse practices that draw on various knowledge stocks. This knowledge must be adapted to suit the farmers’ crops, the local environment and the farming system. To achieve this requires farmers to build on their knowl...

A research team from the Alliance Manchester Business School and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) has officially begun working on an important project for The Productivity Institute: ‘Addressing the net-zero and productivity challe...

This paper entitled ‘Equitable Research Capacity towards the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case for Open Science Hardware’ is featured in the Special Issue on Open Science Policies as an Accelerator for Achieving the Sustainable Development. Pro...

High costs and a lack of access to people with the relevant skills are significant barriers to businesses adopting digital technologies across Greater Manchester, according to a major new AMBS report.Funded by the AMBS Strategic Investment Fund, the ...

Join Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Work and Equalities Institute for an online discussion on ‘Adoption of Digital Technologies and Skills in Greater Manchester: Motivations, Barriers and Impact’ on Thursday 15th December from 12:30-...

New generation innovation policy and the role of placeIn recent years, and in response to major societal challenges such as climate change, migration, or food and energy security, innovation policy has both broadened its scope for action and widened ...

Congratulations to AMBS professors Frank Geels and Javed Siddiqui who are both named by Thomson Reuters in this year’s prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers.The list includes scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated “significant ...

Alejandra Navea Parra and Hien Dao are just two of six researchers nationwide to have received the scholarships this academic year. Alejandra and Hien are both first year doctoral researchers at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, a Research...

On 15th and 16th November 2022, the European Commission launched its first European Partnership Stakeholder Forum. The Forum focused on the review of the first year of European Research and Innovation Partnership initiatives in Horizon Europe and in ...

Perhaps no sector of the global economy is in greater need of concerted efforts toward deep decarbonization than industry, which includes energy-intensive sectors such as chemicals, iron and steel, cement, and aluminum (1).Yet industry has long been ...

The demand for evaluation in science and innovation policy continues to grow alongside the demands on STI policy to deliver a broad range of economic and societal goals against financial constraints. Thus, evaluations are increasingly understood as a...

As part of a Professional Development Workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management in August 2022 on the theme of the Puzzle of the Informal Economy and the Circular Economy, they considered the opportunities and challenges associated with the adoptio...

This week we are joined by two more guest speakers starting with Dirk Lindebaum, Professor in Organisation and Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management (France) on Monday 24th October from 15:30-16:30pm (BST).What is the future of scientific theory...

After two decades of research on Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises (EMNE), the debate still concerns the antecedents and strategies of their foreign expansion. However, much less has been said on the effects of international participation on ...

Debapriya Chakrabarti has joined the MIOIR as a Research Associate in the ‘Place-based innovation strategies and Entrepreneurial ecosystems’ UMRI Interdisciplinary Research project, working with Elvira Uyarra, Mabel Sanchez-Barrioluengo, Philip Shapi...

Despite the growing interest in the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE), the structure of value-adding activities within ecosystems remains overlooked. Therefore, in this paper we explore a possible conceptual interplay between the EE and the g...

Marcos Antón Tejón will be joining us for 3 months from 15 September 2022 until 22 December 2022 to carry out a research visit, supervised by Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo. The circulation visit is funded by the European Forum for Studies of Policies fo...

This article offers a framework for the study of research governance effects on scientific fields framed by notions of research quality and the epistemic, organizational, and career choices they entail. The framework interprets the contested idea of ...

The recent white paper on levelling up has highlighted the damage caused by socioeconomic inequality and the importance of a more place-based, inclusive strategy for growth and prosperity. Regional disparities have been aggravated by shocks such as B...

Digital technologies and robotics are often expected to release knowledge workers from routine work – typically framed as ‘mundane’ – freeing their time to pursue more valuable types of knowledge work, while increasing their productivity. So, more di...

During the last months (June and July), Sebastián had the opportunity to travel to the United States, where he participated in a series of activities focused on training the continent's new leaders. Sebastián was in the state of Texas, where he spent...

Professor Uyarra will follow in the footsteps of Professor Jonatan Pinkse, who has led MIOIR for the last 3 years and will finish his term as executive director on 31st July 2022 to take a well-deserved study leave. Prof Pinkse will remain an active ...

The new initiative will deliver a free, 24/7 programme to help at least 400 SMEs in Greater Manchester...

Business leaders in the North West are championing plans from productivity experts to accelerate the levelling up agenda in the region. ...