Past events
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Co-Creation for Innovation in Creative Industries Symposium
09:00 - 15:00 16 April 2026
Join us for a forward-looking dialogue between academics and practitioners exploring the role of co-creation in innovation across the creative industries. Creative companies are increasingly embracing co-creation that enables deeper engagement with audiences, the development of socially and environmentally...
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MIOIR Seminar Series with Professor Paavo Ritala
15:30 - 16:30 16 March 2026
Digital platforms as institutional entrepreneurs: Navigating between disruptive opportunity creation and social contestation Full abstract will be available closer to the date. Paavo Ritala is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Business School of LUT University, Finland. His research focuses...
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MIOIR + SCI Joint Seminar with Professor Bernhard Truffer
14:00 - 15:15 12 March 2026
A “valuation” perspective on complex transition phenomena Abstract: The field of sustainability transitions emerged in a historical context where radical transformations were asked for in rather simple economic sectors – mostly infrastructure-focused public utility services – requiring responding...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Corporate Strategy Externalities and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Emergence
15:30 - 16:30 10 March 2026
Corporate Strategy Externalities and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Emergence Abstract: This study advances entrepreneurial ecosystem theory by repositioning incumbent firms as dynamic, endogenous actors whose strategies shape ecosystem trajectories over time. By conceptualizing corporate strategy externalities...
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MIOIR–GDI Seminar on Africa’s Innovation Pathways, Professor Erika Kraemer-Mbula
15:30 - 16:30 26 February 2026
Join the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and the Global Development Institute jointly hosted seminar, on Africa’s Innovation Pathways, delivered by Simon Visiting Professor Erika Kraemer-Mbula (University of Johannesburg). Africa’s Innovation Pathways: Evolutionary Economics, opportunities,...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty
15:30 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty This talk explores how Arup - a global professional services firm with over 18,000 members - applies foresight, research, and innovation to explore, anticipate, and shape the future. The talk will explore the core philosophy behind Arup's practice,...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - When Experiential Learning Fails
15:30 - 16:30 2 February 2026
When Experiential Learning Fails: How Complexity of Experience Undermines Learning from Failures Learning from failures is widely regarded as a central mechanism of organizational adaptation, yet failures in high reliability contexts are often complex, heterogeneous, and difficult to interpret. This...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - The Building Blocks of Software Work
15:30 - 16:30 8 December 2025
Frank Neffke will explore the building blocks of software work and what they reveal about learning, careers and the spread of programming languages. (Co-authors: Xiangnan Feng, Johannes Wachs, Simone Daniotti) Abstract: Recent waves of technological transformation are reshaping work in uncertain and...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Universities and the climate crisis: the case for a leadership role
15:30 - 16:30 1 December 2025
Meric S. Gertler discusses the case for universities to take leading roles in the fight against climate change. Abstract: The evidence continues to mount that the climate crisis is accelerating. The Financial Times reported recently that last year saw the largest single-year increase in atmospheric...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - What Gets Cited? Reference Practices in Patent–Publication Pairs
15:30 - 16:30 24 November 2025
Alfredo Yegros explores how inventors balance knowledge disclosure and protection through citation practices in patent–publication pairs. Abstract: While the relationship between science and technology has been extensively examined through citation linkages, far less attention has been paid to the...
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