Past events
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MIOIR Seminar Series - From Trust to Threat: A Case Study of Fraudulent Research Networks
14:30 - 15:30 13 October 2025
From Trust to Threat: A Case Study of Fraudulent Research Networks Leslie D. McIntosh explores how fraudulent research networks exploit trust in science and why stronger research integrity is vital to protect open science. Abstract: Trust underpins the research ecosystem, yet it is increasingly exploited...
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MIOIR Seminar Series with Prof Valentina Tartari
14:30 - 15:30 22 September 2025
Strategic Idea Revival: How Creators Leverage Evaluator Turnover to Resubmit Rejected Ideas Dr Valentina Tartari will examine how evaluator turnover shapes the resubmission of previously rejected proposals, in a paper co-authored with Johanna Schnier. Abstract: Idea rejection is a common yet often...
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How to Create a Good Food Revolution (Prof. Kevin Morgan)
16:00 - 18:00 25 June 2025
Join us for a talk and discussion about how public food policies can help promote social justice, public health and ecological integrity. Kevin Morgan is Professor of Governance and Development at Cardiff University. His research focuses on governance, development, and innovation in places, including...
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Innovation for Creating Sustainable Value: Understanding Global Value Chains in the Amazon
10 - 11 June 2025
The University of Manchester is hosting an academic workshop from June 10-11, 2025, for the research project Innovation for Creating Sustainable Value: Understanding Global Value Chains in the Amazon, part of the Amazônia+10 Initiative. This project brings together academics from UoM with colleagues...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Deploying AI in Organisations
28 April - 26 October 2025
Deploying AI in Organisations Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to revolutionise individual organisations and transform the way organisations across sectors — public, private, non-profit — work (together) to tackle grand societal challenges. Through real-world case studies, Professor...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - From invention to innovation: The role of corporate inventors in bringing their technology to the market
14:30 - 15:30 31 March 2025
From invention to innovation: The role of corporate inventors in bringing their technology to the market Markus Simeth, Associate Professor at the Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI) at Copenhagen Business School, will discuss the role of corporate inventors in driving the commercialization of...
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MIOIR-IB Group Joint Seminar - Human resource management and machine investments. A new take on the relations between technical change, automation and jobs in organizations
15:30 - 16:30 17 March 2025
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research & International Business (IB) Group Joint Seminar, with Guest Speaker Professor Martin Henning Human resource management and machine investments. A new take on the relations between technical change, automation and jobs in organizations Co-authors: Emelie...
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MIOIR Seminar Series with Prof. Riccardo Crescenzi
15:30 - 16:30 10 March 2025
Green(ing) Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Regional Development As the world transitions to net-zero emissions, goods and services are increasingly incorporating green attributes. Achieving this shift requires new and diverse technologies and processes to deliver sustainable products from...
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Annual Fred Jevons Lecture - What lies beneath the 'Chip War'? Knowledge flows, technology and geopolitics
17:00 - 18:30 5 March 2025
This year’s Fred Jevons lecture will be delivered by John Krige - a Kranzberg Professor Emeritus from the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. What lies beneath the 'Chip War'? Understanding the global circulation of knowledge, its geopolitics and future...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Artificial Intelligence, between industrial dynamics and industrial policy
15:30 - 16:30 24 February 2025
Artificial Intelligence, between industrial dynamics and industrial policy In this talk, I will combine three of my ongoing projects to offer a bird's eye view of important trajectories in AI economics research: whether AI is poised to follow industry-life cycle patterns; whether software-hardware tandems...
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