About CRIC

CRIC is a joint centre of the University of Manchester and UMIST. The primary contract from ESRC was awarded to the University of Manchester, with a start date of October 1996. The contract was renewed for a further five years from October 2001.

The Centre began its work in dedicated offices in January 1997. At that time it had 4 Professors as co-directors, 7.5 research staff, and 2 administrative and secretarial staff. Since then research staff have increased to 17, and admin/secretarial to 4. The additional staff are funded by the (approx) £700k of additional research income raise by the centre to date.

CRIC is set in the context of a broader environment of management and social science departments of the two universities, with whom it has complex and evolving relationships. CRIC is a real distinct from a virtual, distributive research centre and all the directors and staff are co-located in the same offices. This has create a good environment for CRIC staff to develop a strong team spirit with good collegial and flexible modes of working together. It has also presented CRIC with the challenge of drawing from and contributing to the great pool of expertise in the staff of the 'parent' institutions from which it was spawned. These include in particular the members of the Federal School of Business and Management.

In the second stage of CRIC's life, we will pursue the integration of CRIC and the other major elements of the innovation research community in Manchester. This will be carried forward by the plans to co-locate CRIC, PREST and CROMTEC as a result of a successful bid to the Joint Infrastructure Fund. This bid (principal applicant: Professor Stan Metcalfe) resulted in £5.7 million being awarded to the two universities to create a new research facility for the Federal School of Business and Management. The building will house three major Federal School activities, one of which will be the co-location of CRIC, PREST and CROMTEC to conduct a joint research programme on Innovation and the Knowledge Economy. The expected occupancy date for the new building is the last week of August 2002.

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CRIC is now proud to be part of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR)
Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester,
Harold Hankins Building, Booth Street West, Manchester M13 9QH, England
Phone +44 (0)161 275 7365 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361
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