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Jorge Bateira is a mature student. He graduated in Economics (1975) at the University of Porto and a ‘Diplome d’Etudes Approfondis’ in Regional Development at the University of Bordeaux. After many years as lecturer of economics, he left the University of Porto to begin a career in the public sector in the nineties. Before coming to CRIC he had the position of manager of SME Community Initiative for Portugal.
Jorge began his PhD in October 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Metcalfe. The title of his thesis is ‘Global competition and economic evolution: inertia and change in the Portuguese wooden furniture industry’. In his research Jorge takes an evolutionary and critical realist approach to study: how a set of beliefs and assumptions about industry’s structure and firm’s competitiveness emerged from entrepreneurs’ interactions and became an institution; how this institution (‘the industry model’) in turn frames the way entrepreneurs understand current competitive challenges.
Annunziata de Felice is assistant professor in economics at the University of Bari in Italy from 2003, she is a professor in Economics at Lumsa sez. Edas, University of Taranto from 2001 and in International Economics at University of Bari in 2005-2006. Her fields of interest are: Industrial and Social Economics, Evolutionary Teory, ICT, Economy of South. Under the supervision of Prof. Jeremy Howells and Ronnie Ramlogan, she is working on “Social Capabilities and Innovation: a Case of Industrial District in Southern Italy”.
Sally Gee graduated from Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK with a BSc in International Business and a MSc in Technology Management. Twelve months of her undergraduate studies were spent at McMaster University, Canada. Sally's undergraduate dissertation investigated technological development within the genetically modified food sector. Her MSc research project was on the knowledge management practices in the R&D department of Amersham Plc (supervised by Vivien Walsh). Since graduating Sally has been employed as a Research Assistant at CRIC working with Mark Harvey and Andrew McMeekin undertaking a comparative study of innovation processes within bioinformatics. Sally started her PhD in February 2003 and is researching Distributed Innovation Processes (DIPs) in the pharmaceutical sector, with a particular focus on the relationship between corporate finance and innovation processes.
E-mail: S.Gee@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Chiara Marzocchi graduated in Applied Economics at Ferrara University (Italy) in 2003. After her degree Chiara began to participate as a junior researcher on several research projects for Ferrara University Economics department and in 2005 she started her Ph.D. Her main research interests concern the role of institutions in the coevolution of systems of innovation. She is visiting CRIC until September 2007 under the supervision of Stan Metcalfe and Ronnie Ramlogan.
Mirva Peltoniemi graduated with a M.Sc.(Eng.) at Tampere University of Technology (Finland) in 2004. Her research for Doctor of Technology degree concentrates on the development of the Finnish games industry. She is visiting CRIC until May 2007 under the supervision of Professor Stan Metcalfe.
Email: mirva.peltoniemi@tut.fi
Francesco Quatraro (1977) is Research Fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Turin. He is going to defend his PhD thesis in Economics, supervised by Cristiano Antonelli and titled “R&D, Patent and Productivity in Italy” in the first fall 2007. He is actually visiting scholar for the second time at the CRIC – University of Manchester, under the supervision of Stan Metcalfe. He has also been visiting school at the Columbia University of New York under the supervision of Frank Lichtenberg. His main research interests are growth theory, economics of knowledge and technological change, relationships between structural change and productivity.
Kittipol Wijitkhunakorn joined CRIC in 2005 after graduating in Economics at Chulalongkorn Universiy, Thailand and University of York, United Kingdom. He is a student under supervision of Professor Jeremy Howells and Dr. Bruce Tether. His research interest is on System of Innovation and Firm’s innovative capability with particular focus on the processed food industry in Thailand.
Hung Hsuan Yeh (Denny) began studying Mathematics and Management Science at UMIST as an undergraduate in 2001. Before coming to CRIC he developed interests in videogames and computer games and managed to put them into use (surprisingly!) by writing an MSc dissertation while studying at PREST.
His current research interest continues to tangle with social/cultural aspects of gaming, which he is very pleased to be under Dr. Rutter's supervision. Videogames/computer games can be approached in many academic fields and he hopes to tackle his research towards this subject in an interdisciplinary way.
Email: dennyyeh@gmail.com
Lorenzo Benussi studied Communications Sciences at the University of Turin (Italy) and graduated in Innovation Economics in 2002 with a thesis "Networks between symbols and innovation" that dealt with the different aspect of ICT innovation process to explain the evolution of digital communications technologies. After the degree Lorenzo entered the P.h.D program in Communications Studies at the University Of Turin under the supervision of Prof. Cristiano Antonelli. During the last two years he also worked as chief executive of New Media branch of Virtual Reality & Mutli Media Park in Turin. Lorenzo was a visiting student at CRIC mentored by Prof. Metcalfe.
Lorenzo's work focuses on the evolution of information and communication technologies depending on technical, economic and socio-economic determinants, in order to discover cogent elements of the evolution of new digital media based on communication networks. In particular his research focusses on web applications, open source software and multimedia technologies. His approach is quite inter-disciplinary assuming that ICT technologies are composed of technological, economic and symbolic elements, it links technical and non-technical methodologies including alternative theories of the firm, empirical and historical observations and strategic management issues and it is mainly based upon communication and innovation studies.
After completing a year at CRIC as a visiting student, Lorenzo had this to say about CRIC:
"It has been a wonderful year, incredibly productive, interesting, stimulating and also funny. I came here with some confused ideas and now leaving with a thesis almost done, its incredible. I must compliment for the fantastic environment which makes CRIC the place to be in Europe to study innovation. It has been an important year in my PhD and I hope to be back at CRIC sometime in the near future".
Mercedes Bleda completed her PhD in Economics at CRIC under the supervision of Professor Stan Metcalfe in 2002. Her thesis analysed the relationship between evolutionary ideas in economics and the recent developments in the field of complex systems theory in the context of the firm. Before completing her PhD, she was an assistant lecturer in the department of Quantitative Methods for the Economy in the University of Murcia (Spain). Mercedes Bleda is now a postdoctoral research associate at PREST (Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology) at the Institute of Innovation Research (Manchester Business School).
Email: Mercedes.Bleda@mbs.ac.uk
Tyler Chamberlin completed his PhD research in 2005. His research topic was "Competing in Technologically Intensive Industries: International Trade Policy and Corporate Strategy". Tyler is a Lecturer at the University of Ottawa's School of Management, Canada where he teaches courses in International Business and Technology Management at both the Undergraduate and Graduate levels.
Tyler is also a Researcher at the Program of Research on Innovation Management and Economy (PRIME) at the University of Ottawa where he is involved in a major study of the Regional Innovation System of Ottawa.
Ivan Hernandez has successfully completed his PhD studies at CRIC and is currently an Assistant Professor Economics Faculty in the National University of Colombia. He was supervised by Professor Stan Metcalfe and the title of thesis was "Economics of Innovation in Less Developed Countries". The focus of the study was the institutional environment for the development of innovation in Colombia's manufacturing industry.
Email: idhu1970@hotmail.com and javctyde@yahoo.com
Diego Iribarren has successfully completed his PhD, titled "Knowledge and Intuitions in Interacting Learning Heterogeneous Agents" under the supervision of Professor Stan Metcalfe. This work brings together some deep issues in non-orthodox microeconomic systems of distinct individual agents such as bounded rationality, mutual influences and dependencies through understandings.
Johanna was a Marie Curie fellow who visited CRIC from October to December 2001. She is doing her Ph.D at Linköping University, Sweden in the research group SIRP (system of innovation research programme) under the supervision of Professor Charles Edquist. Johanna Nählinder holds a Master's degree in Political Science and a Master of Science in Economic and Social Geography both from Uppsala University, Sweden (2000). Her research investigates how process and product innovations affect employment in knowledge intensive business services (KIBS). The purpose of the project is to (1) investigate how and why process and product innovations affect the number of employees in Swedish KIBS sectors; (2) investigate if how and why process and product innovations affect skills and gender distribution of the Swedish KIBS sectors.
Email: Johna@tema.liv.se
Renato was a Marie Curie fellow visiting CRIC from September 2001 to June 2002. He is doing his Ph.D at the Politechnical of Milan in Management Engineering under the supervision of Professor Stefano Paleari.
The main objective of his dissertation is to make a comparative analysis between UK and Italy concerned with the liberalisation of electricity. The methodologies he exploits are essentially quantitative and are related to the study of the price reaction to the change in the regulatory rules and to the estimation of the cost of capital for regulated industries.
Email: redondi@unibg.it
Francesco Rentocchini graduated in Economics at the University of Modena (Italy). His thesis "Gramsci, Romeo, Gerschenkron: the debate on Italian industrialization" dealt with the different development framework used in the literature to explain Italian industrialization. He attended the "Master in development, innovation and change" at the University of Bologna (Italy) and he attended his final three months internship at CRIC. Under the supervision of Prof. Metcalfe, he is worked on "The changing definition of industrial district: the biomedical of Mirandola".
Francesco is the winner, for the academic year 2003-2004, of a research scholarship at the university of Modena (Italy) on the topic "The rise and fall of Emilian model: the 70s crisis of Communist party in the province of Modena, Reggio Emilia and Bologna". His research interests include: italian economic hystory, clusters and industrial districts, distributed innovation processes, regional innovation systems.
Yongning (Nick) Zhang joined CRIC in September 2005 for one year as an academic. His research involved academic-industry links in the UK and China. He graduated from China University of Petroleum with a B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and a M. A. in Political Education. After 14 years experience in student management and education, he began to his PhD in September 2004, in Management School, Wuhan University of Technology, China. He has a wide research interest, including higher education administration, youth work, science policy, technology transfer, political culture, and creative study.
Email: zynupc@hotmail.com
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