Past events
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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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MIOIR Seminar Series - Trump, Iran and Science
15:30 - 16:30 19 November 2025
Michael E. Rose will explore how the U.S. “Muslim travel ban” influenced the productivity and collaboration of Iranian computer scientists and how they adapted to sustain international engagement. Abstract: We study the role of travel restrictions on productivity and collaborations of scientists....
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