MIOIR’s An Yu Chen reflects on her trip to the Global Research Experts Meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on November 24–25, 2025.
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Funding for PhDs: Shaping the Future of Science and Innovation
Emily Johnson explores how UK PhD funding disparities across subjects, gender, and regions shape the future of research and innovation.
Calling Designers: Share Your Views with the Government on Protecting Innovation & Creativity
Calling the design community – the Government is interested in your views how to support and encourage creativity, innovation and investments in design through how designs are protected. Please give your views!Throughout my career, I’ve had a keen interest in design....
A conversation with….Tonny Kukeera
In September 2024, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) welcomed Dr. Tonny Kukeera to our academic community. A Lecturer in Innovation and Sustainable Business, Tonny brings a wealth of experience and fresh insights into sustainability,...
A Conversation with Dr. Gianluigi Giustiziero: Exploring Models, Research, and Insights
Recently, we sat down with Dr. Gianluigi Giustiziero, Senior Lecturer in Strategy, who joined Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) at the beginning of the academic year. Gianluigi (or ‘GG’) received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, and has...
Women in innovation expanding the invention archives of the UK
Prof. Cornelia Lawson and Dr. Xin Deng’s UK DGCI project builds a database to track UK PhD graduates’ innovation contributions.
Getting to know our New Research Interns: Bahaar and Sanya
This summer MIOIR welcomed two students undertaking the ‘Learning Through Research Internship’ with Professor Cornelia Lawson and research team, working on the project “UK Doctoral Graduates’ Contribution to Innovation”.We welcomed them to the department with an...
Insights from Early Career Scholar Diletta Pegoraro’s EU-SPRI Visit
Diletta Pegoraro reflects on her impactful visit to MIOIR, highlighting how the Eu-SPRI-funded circulation programme advanced her research and fostered valuable academic connections.
Discussions on Benefit-Sharing and Data Governance
This blog post summarizes and reflects on discussions at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on Genetic Resources, which took place on...
Low-carbon reorientation in steel, oil refining and petrochemical industries
This blog summarises the findings of the 2-year research project ‘Low-carbon reorientation in steel, oil
refining and petrochemical industries’ that was funded by the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and
innovation Centre (IDRIC).
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