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Thursday 16th March 2006,
1pm - 5.30pm
University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, UK.
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| Thursday 16th March 2006 | |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Buffet Lunch |
Session 1: Perspectives |
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| 14.00 - 14.10 | Professor Bonnie Sibbald (Chair - IHS), Welcome and Introduction |
| 14.10 - 15.30 | Chair Professor Jeremy Howells (CRIC), Paper 1 – Professor John Pickstone (CHSTM),
Paper 2 – Dr Ruth Boaden (Manchester Business School),
‘Innovation and/or Improvement: Challenges for the NHS’ Paper 3 –Professor Steve Harrison (School of Social Sciences),
Paper 4- Professor John Abrahams (University of Sussex), ‘Pharmaceutical
Innovations and Regulation: Key Problems & Challenges’ |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Discussion of presentations |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Tea/Coffee |
Session 2: Problems |
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| 16.30 - 17.30 | Round Table: Chaired by Keith Chantler (TrusTECH) |
| 17.30 - 19.00 | Drinks/Nibbles Reception |
CRIC has combined with PREST to form the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR).
New book: Trust in Food, A Comparative and Institutional Analysis by Unni Kjaernes, Mark Harvey & Alan Warde.
CRIC Final Report to ESRC:"Main Report" and "CRIC Performance Indicators 1997-2006".
'Instituted Or Embedded? Legal, Fiscal and Economic Institutionalisation of Markets' by Mark Harvey
'Beyond Efficiency and Market Shares: Competition within the Finnish Games Industry' by Mirva Peltoniemi
'Accounting for Economic Evolution: Fitness and the Population Method' by Stan Metcalfe
'Innovation and Final Consumption: Social Practices, Instituted Modes of Provision and Intermediation' by Andrew McMeekin & Dale Southerton
'Alfred Marshall’s Mecca: Reconciling the Theories of Value and Development' by Stan Metcalfe