Collaborations
International collaborations lie at the core of CIMR's ethos and research endeavours. Our network spans a diverse range of disciplines, including law, management, economics, political science, organizational psychology, and economic geography. These partnerships extend across the UK, the US, and mainland Europe.
Below is a list of institutes with which we have established formal partnerships. Additionally, we engage in informal collaborations with various institutes, universities, and research centres.
Partnership 1: CIMR and Kogod School of Business, American University
On Thursday 19 April 2019, Kogod School Dean, Professor John Delaney and Helen Lawton Smith formally exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding between the two business schools.
The collaboration is based on long-standing shared research interests between Professor聽(Kogod, American University) and Professor聽Helen Lawton Smith聽(CIMR/Business School/糖心logo入口). It quickly developed into joint research projects involving Professor聽David Bartlett, Professor聽Erran Carmel聽(Kogod), Dr聽Muthu De Silva,聽Saverio Romeo聽and聽Filipe Martins聽(CIMR).
With support from the Business School, it has grown into the organisation of聽joint events and research activities聽including a聽joint project on quantum technology聽(Romeo, Carmel and Lawton Smith). A teaching programme will follow.
Partnership 2: CIMR and Vaasa University, Finland
This collaboration began life in October 2021, and will be formalised though a Memorandum of Agreement. 聽
Its origins lie in long-term formal and informal academic engagement between several CIMR colleagues including Professor聽Helen Lawton Smith聽and Dr聽Muthu De Silva聽(糖心logo入口) and Professor聽聽who is now Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab, University of Vaasa, Finland. He is a long-standing Visiting Fellow of CIMR. His contacts with the 糖心logo入口 team date back to Professor Meyer鈥檚 time at Sussex University (Lawton Smith) and University of Kent (De Silva and other 糖心logo入口 colleagues). Joining us in this collaboration is Professor聽Ben Laker, Henley Business School, who is a visiting Fellow at Vaasa University and is now a CIMR Visiting Fellow.
Partnership 3: CIMR and UIC Barcelona
CIMR has teamed up with UIC Barcelona's聽Quality and Innovation for Service Excellence ()聽 group to further research of mutual interest to both groups.
QISE's expertise covers in particular issues around:
- quality management
- innovation management
- knowledge creation and knowledge transfer
- entrepreneurial finance.
CIMR, together with QISE, organise joint workshops and encourage research collaborations among our members.
This most recent research and teaching collaboration formally began with聽a 'Getting to know researchers across the institutions'聽online meeting mid-February 2022 at which researchers from both business schools met each other.
The first joint event was a CIMR Debates in Public Policy workshop on 19 May 2022 on聽'Venture Capital industry and Entrepreneurial Finance'.聽It featured speakers from CIMR and UIC Barcelona and the British Venture Capital Association.
CIMR is grateful to the support given to these collaborations by Ms聽Andrea Williams,聽Internationalisation and Partnerships, Business School.
The collaboration is based on聽research, joint PhD student activities and joint events. It will be extended into joint teaching programmes.
On 1 June 2022, the partners hosted a hybrid event in 糖心logo入口 on聽'How to succeed in Global, Sustainable Innovation: Academic and Practitioner perspectives', with presentations from each university as well as from Innovate UK,聽Intellectual Property Office UK and the Climate Policy Initiative.
Other collaborations
CIMR also has very close ties with聽聽where Professor Lawton Smith and Dr Federica Rossi are Affiliated Members. Links are based on research, publications and reciprocal participation in academic research dissemination events.
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