What's New

29th March 2007

A new CRIC Discussion Paper: "Instituted Or Embedded? Legal, Fiscal and Economic Institutionalisation of Markets" by Mark Harvey.

26th March 2007

A new CRIC Discussion Paper: "Beyond Efficiency and Market Shares: Competition within the Finnish Games Industry" by Mirva Peltoniemi.

16th March 2007

A new CRIC Discussion Paper: "Accounting for Economic Evolution: Fitness and the Population Method" by Stan Metcalfe.

14th March 2007

A new CRIC Discussion Paper: "Innovation and Final Consumption: Social Practices, Instituted Modes of Provision and Intermediation" by Andrew McMeekin & Dale Southerton.

13th March 2007

A new CRIC Discussion Paper: "Alfred Marshall’s Mecca: Reconciling the Theories of Value and Development" by Stan Metcalfe.

22nd February 2007

New book "Trust in Food, A Comparative and Institutional Analysis" by Unni Kjaernes, Mark Harvey and Alan Warde is now available.

19th February 2007

The ESRC centre grant for CRIC ended in September 2006, and completed 10 years funding from ESRC. The following report is the final one submitted to ESRC at the end of January 2007: Main Report (712Kb - pdf format) and CRIC Performance Indicators 1997-2006 (994Kb - pdf format).

15th January 2007

Details of the forthcoming IoIR Seminar Series are now available.

12th December 2006

Details of a new book "Industrial Ecology and Spaces Of Innovation" by Ken Green and Sally Randles are now available.

6th December 2006

Details of the Overseas Postgraduate Research Studentships Award Schemes 2007/08 are now available. This includes the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORS), the Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards (DHPA) and the Manchester-China Scholarship Council Awards.

28th November 2006

DIME Workshop: "Instituting the Market Process: Innovation, Market Architectures and Market Dynamics”, to be held in Manchester on 7-8th December 2006.

27th November 2006

Details of the forthcoming IoIR Seminar Series are now available.

14th November 2006

Details of a new project "Markets for Creativity: Design Services & Innovation" are now available.

20th October 2006

A new report "The Use and Limitations of Indicators in the Context of City-Region Development Strategy" prepared for Manchester: Knowledge Capital by PREST & CRIC (Dr Sally Randles, Dr Elvira Uyarra, Ms Evita Paraskevopoulou, Mr Brian Eaton, Professor Ian Miles, Professor Jeremy Howells).

10th October 2006

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Innovation Systems and The Competitive Process in Developing Economies" by Stan Metcalfe and Ronnie Ramlogan is now available.

9th August 2006

The Catchup Network website has been launched which includes details on members, forthcoming events, bulletin board and a Working Paper series.

25th July 2006

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Alfred Marshall and the General Theory of Evolutionary Economics" by Stan Metcalfe is now available.

12th July 2006

Details of a new book "Understanding Digital Games" by Jason Rutter and Jo Bryce are now available.

16th June 2006

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Creative Destruction and the Measurement of Productivity Change" by Stan Metcalfe and Ronnie Ramlogan is now available.

6th June 2006

On-line registration is now available for the IoIR Conference 2006 on Innovation in Services, 15-17 June 2006, Manchester.

15th May 2006

The CRIC Annual Report 2005 is now available.

21st April 2006

The new CRIC Briefing Series is launched with 2 new papers: "Medical Innovation" and "Innovation in Services". These papers are intented to provide those involved in innovation and competition with a clear understanding of the main issues and findings presented by CRIC research and publication programmes.

20th March 2006

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Networks of Knowledge: The Distributed Nature of of Medical Innovation" by Andrea Mina, Stan Metcalfe, Ronnie Ramlogan and Gindo Tampubolon is now available.

14th March 2006

Details of the “Catchup Network”: Advance Notice of Second Workshop to be held on 11-13 May 2006 in Manchester are now available.

6th March 2006

Call for papers for the DIME WP 2.4 Workshop: The Emergence of Markets and their Architecture to be held on 4-5 May 2006 in Paris.

17th February 2006

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Making Knowledge Public, Making Knowledge Private: Bioinformatics and the Revolution in Biological Science and Technology" by Mark Harvey and Andrew McMeekin is now available.

15th February 2006

Social Science Week event - Perspectives and Problems: Innovation in the NHS to be held in Manchester on 16th March 2006.

17 January 2006

Details of the 2nd Semester IoIR Seminar Series are now available.

10th January 2006

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Progress in Medicine: The Structure and Evolution of know-how for the Treatment of Glaucoma" by Davide Consoli, Andrew McMeekin, Ronnie Ramlogan, Andrea Mina, Gindo Tampubolon and Stan Metcalfe now available.

20th December 2005

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Innovation, Competition and Enterprise: Foundations for Economic Evolution in Learning Economies" by Stan Metcalfe is now available.

1st December 2005

Call for papers for the IoIR Conference 2006 on Innovation in Services to be held in Manchester on 15-17 June 2006.

10th November 2005

Details of the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORS) 2006/07 is now available.

1st November 2005

Comparative Studies of Consumption conference to be held in Manchester on 17-18 November 2005.

27th October 2005

ETE Conference - "Consumption, Markets and Enterprise: Vectors of Economic Change" to be held in Manchester on 23-24 November 2005.

24th October 2005

Details of the forthcoming IoIR Seminar Series are now available.

11th October 2005

CRIC is holding a 1-day conference in Manchester on the 2nd December 2005 to celebrate John Barber's contribution to Innovation Policy in his long career at the Department of Trade and Industry.

11th August 2005

Details of the seminar series "DigiPlay 6: Moving Forwards in Digital Leisure Research" to be held at Sheffield Hallam University in September 2005 are now available.

2nd August 2005

On-line questionnaire now available for UK and Eire participants for the project "Sourcing for Innovation".

6th July 2005

A new report on the consumption of counterfeit goods by Jason Rutter and Jo Bryce is now available online. The 'Fake Nation?' was produced for The Organised Crime Task Force in Northern Ireland as part of a significant government, industry and academia partnership.

7th June 2005

A new CRIC Working Paper "A Naturalist View of Knowledge" by Jorge Bateira is now available.

10th May 2005

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "The Ordering of Change: Polanyi. Schumpeter and the Nature of the Market Mechanism" by Mark Harvey and Stan Metcalfe is now available.

21st April 2005

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Emergent Innovation Systems and the Delivery of Clinical Services: The Case of Intra-Ocular Lenses" by Andrea Mina, Stan Metcalfe and Andrew James is now available.

11th April 2005

The CRIC Annual Report 2004 is now available.

7th April 2005

Applications are invited for the post of Centre Administrator. See CRIC vacancies for more details.

16th February 2005

Details of the forthcoming DigiPlay Seminar Series "Business Models, User Experiences and Public Interest" to be held at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 22nd March 2005 are now available.

3rd February 2005

Details of the forthcoming Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series are now available.

1st February 2005

Materials from the conference "Kitchens and bathrooms: Changing technologies, practices and social organisation - implications for sustainability" held in January 2005 are now available.

20th December 2004

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Problem Sequences and Innovation systems: Emergence, Growth and Transformation of a Medical Sector" by A. Mina, G. Tampubolon, R. Ramlogan, L.Venetucci, A. McMeekin and J.S. Metcalfeis now available.

16th December 2004

Details of the conference "Kitchens and bathrooms: Changing technologies, practices and social organisation - implications for sustainability" to be held in January 2005 are now available.

9th December 2004

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Do Services Innovate (Differently)?" by Bruce Tether is now available.

9th November 2004

Details of the seminar series "DigiPlay 4: Teaching with, Learning from Computer Games" to be held at London Knowledge Lab in January 2005 are now available.

27th August 2004

Details of a new project "Sourcing for Innovation" is now available.

12th August 2004

Details of the forthcoming seminar series "DigiPlay 3: Leisure Constraints, Entitlement and Access to Technologies of Leisure" to be held at University of Central Lancashire on 15th September 2004 are now available.

23rd July 2004

CRIC is working with the Northern Ireland Office, UCLAN and a range of industrial stakeholders on a new project on consumer attitudes towards counterfeiting. Information on the Intellectual Property Theft & Organised Crime project (IPTOC) can be found at http://www.iptocproject.org/.

17th June 2004

Details of the forthcoming Workshop 'Healthy Innovation' to be held at Manchester on 8-10th July 2004 are now available.

12th May 2004

The CRIC Annual Report 2003 is now available.

7th May 2004

Applications are invited for an ESRC PhD Studentship commencing October 2004. The research project is entitled "The development of knowledge and technique, profession and markets for environmental services".

20th April 2004

A new CRIC Discussion Paper "Practice and field: revising Bourdieusian concepts" by Professor Alan Warde is now available.

16th April 2004

Applications are invited for the post of Centre Secretary. See CRIC vacancies for more details.

14th April 2004

Details of the forthcoming conference "Organisations, Innovation and Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge Economy" to be held at Manchester on 9-10th September 2004 are available.

6th April 2004

Details of the forthcoming DigiPlay Semiar Series (Mobile Leisure and the Technological Mediascape) are now available.

31st March 2004

The collection from the conference "Mobile Entertainment: User-centred Perspectives" is now available in electronic and hard copy formats.

10th March 2004

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate: Sustainable Domestic Technologies: changing practice, technology and convention. See CRIC vacancies for more details.

13th February 2004

The Institute of Innovation Research report "Prospecting Bioscience for the Future of Non-Food Uses of Crops", commissioned by the DTI/DEFRA Government Industry Forum for Non-Food Uses of Crops is now available.

6th February 2004

Details of the forthcoming IoIR Seminar Series are now available.

12th January 2004

Details and material from the recent "DigiPlay: Experience and Consequence of Technologies of Leisure" seminars is now available.

14th November 2003

Details of the 'Bioinformatics and Economies of Knowledge in Europe and the USA' project are now available.

27th October 2003

Details of the forthcoming IoIR Seminar Series are now available.

9th October 2003

Details of the Workshop "Knowledge Intensive Services and Changing Organisational Forms" to be held in November 2003 are now available.

6th October 2003

The Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR) Annual Report 2002 is now availble.

2nd October 2003

Two new papers are available: 'The Evolution of Retail Banking Services in United Kingdom: a Retrospective Analysis' by Davide Consoli and 'Sourcing Science, The use by Industry of the Science Base for Innovation; Evidence from the UK's Innovation Survey' by Bruce Tether and Peter Swann.

23rd September 2003

A new CRIC Discussion Paper, 'Symbiosis or Pathogenicity:
Interactions between Academia and Industry in the Agrobacterium Tumefaciens. Genome Race' by Mark Harvey and Andrew McMeekin is now available.

19th September 2003

A new CRIC Working Paper, 'What is Innovation? Approaches to Distinguishing New Products and Processes from Existing Products and Processes' by Bruce Tether is now available.

27th August 2003

A new CRIC Discussion Paper, 'Innovation, Consumption and Knowledge: Services and Encapsulation' by Jeremy Howells is now available.

13th August 2003

Call for Papers for the conference "Mobile Entertainment: User Centred Perspectives" to be held in March 2004.

30th July 2003

Applications are invited for a Part Time Research Associate (Employees' Resources and Social Rights in Europe) and a Clerical Assistant (mGain Project).

18th July 2003

The "Innovation in Services" project, funded by the European Commission through the Innovation Unit of Directorate General (DG) for Enterprise, seeks to improve our understanding of the service sector, particularly in relation to innovation.

17th July 2003

Details of the forthcoming seminar series "DigiPlay: Experience and Consequence of Technologies of Leisure" are available on-line.

10th July 2003

Consumption and Innovation - details of the project "Sustainable Domestic Technologies: changing practice, technology and convention" are now available.

30th June 2003

Social Network and Consumption in the UK - This project is funded by the ESRC Research Methods Programme and investigates the role of social networks and social capital in determining the consumption pattern of contemporary British society. Further details on this project are now available.

18th June 2003

Details of the The Workshop "Digital Games Industries: Developments, Impact and Direction" to be held in September 2003 are now available.

20th May 2003

Details of the Industrial Ecology and Spaces of Innovation workshop to be held at the IoIR in June 2003 are now available.

9th May 2003

Applications are invited for the post of a part-time Secretary at CRIC.

28th March 2003

Six new CRIC Discussion Papers are now available:
The Diffusion of Mobile Telephony in Italy and the UK: An Empirical Investigation,
Industrial Growth and the Theory of Retardation: Precursors of an Adaptive Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change,
Services and 'Systems of Innovation',
Adaptive Economic Growth,
'Pressed for Time' - the differential impacts of a 'time squeeze'
Brazilian Genomics and Bioinformatics: Instituting Innovation Processes in a Global Context.

27th February 2003

Details of three new books are now available: Exploring the Tomato. Transformations of Nature, Economy and Society by Mark Harvey, Steve Quilley & Huw Beynon, Innovation by Demand by Andrew McMeekin, Mark Tomlinson, Ken Green & Vivien Walsh and Market Relations and the Competitive Process by Stan Metcalfe & Alan Warde.

19th December 2002

Details of the forthcoming Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series and the Consumption Seminars are now available.

19th December 2002

The 2002 Annual Report is now available here.

2nd December 2002

A new CRIC Discussion Paper, The Sources and Aims of Innovation in Services: Variety Between and Within Sectors by Bruce Tether is now available.

22nd November 2002

A new CRIC Working Paper, Innovation in the Service Sector, Analysis of data collected under the Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2) by Bruce Tether, Ian Miles, Knut Blind, Christiane Hipp, Nicola de Liso and Giulio Cainelli is now available.

1st November 2002

Details of the forthcoming Contrasting Theories of Consumption workshop are now available.

31st October 2002

Details of the forthcoming Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series are now available.

11th October 2002

Call for Papers for the workshop "Digital Games Industries: Developments, Impact and Directions" to be held in September 2003. Further details are available here.

10th October 2002

A collection of papers on 'Capabilities, Complexity and Restructuring in Pharmaceuticals' for the journal 'Technology Analysis and Strategic Management (TASM)' is now available.

27th September 2002

Details of the Polanyian Workshop (Polanyian Perspectives on Instituted Economic Processes, Development and Transformation) to be hosted by CRIC in October 2002 are now available.

19th September 2002

Details of the 12th International Conference of RESER to be hosted by CRIC on 26-27 September 2002 are available here.

29th August 2002

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate: Sustainable Domestic Technologies: Changing Practice, Technology and Convention. Details of this are available here.

23rd August 2002

CRIC is moving offices from Devonshire House to the Harold Hankins Building. See Visitors' Guide for more information.

14th August 2002

Two new CRIC Discussion Papers by Sally Randles are now available. They are: On Economic Sociology, Competition and Markets and Geographies of Collective Reflexivity? Thinking Futures, Doing Urban Governance and Influencing Economic Development in Manchester and Lyon.

26th July 2002

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate: Mobile Entertainment Industry and Culture. Details of this are available here.

18th July 2002

Two new CRIC Discussion Papers are now available. They are: Markets, the organisation of exchanges and 'instituted economic process' - an analytical perspective" by Mark Harvey & Sally Randles and The formation of bioinformatic knowledge markets: An 'economies of knowledge' approach by Andrew McMeekin & Mark Harvey.

17th July 2002

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate for the study on 'Innovation and Services'. Details of this are available here.

1st July 2002

A new CRIC Discussion Paper by Mark Tomlinson, Measuring Competence and Knowledge Using Employee Surveys: Evidence Using The British Skills Survey Of 1997 is now available online.

25th June 2002

Details of the forthcoming CRIC Workshops & Conferences are now availble here.

28th April 2002

CRIC worked with the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) to run a scenario workshop on Genomics and Society for the ESRC, in January 2002. Details of this are available here.

17th April 2002

Details on a joint ASEAT/Institute of Innovation Research conference, "Knowledge and Economic and Social Change: New Challenges to Innovation Studies" to be held in April 2003 are now available.

16th April 2002

A Workshop has been organised between the Instituto de Economia -UFRJ (Brazil) and CRIC, Frontiers of Innovation Research and Policy. Further details are available here.

10th April 2002

Details of two ESRC Funded Research Studentship opportunities at CRIC are available now.

3rd April 2002

Details of the New International Association for Digital Games Researchers are now available here.

22th March 2002

UK Bioinformatics: Current Landscapes and Future Horizons, a report commissioned by the UK DTI, and produced by Mark Harvey and Andrew McMeekin is now available.

5th February 2002

A draft conference programme for the Playing with the Future: Development and Directions in Computer Gaming is now available here.

31st January 2002

Details of the forthcoming Institute of Innovation and the Manchester STI seminar series are now available here.

22rd January 2002

CRIC wishes to recruit two Research Associates: Trust in Food in Europe. Further particulars and application details of these jobs can be found on our vacancies page.

10th January 2002

Two new CRIC Discussion Papers are now available. They are: Identifying Innovation, Innovators and Innovative Behaviours: A Critical Assessment of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) by Bruce Tether and Do Services Matter for African Economic Development? An Empirical Exploration by Mark Tomlinson & Tidings Ndhlovu.

4th January 2002

The 2001 Annual Report is now available here.

6th November 2001

A new CRIC Discussion Paper by Dale Southerton, Elizabeth Shove & Alan Warde, 'Harried and Hurried': time shortage and the co-ordination of everyday life is now available online.

24th October 2001

Details of the forthcoming CRIC and Manchester STI seminar series are now available here.

1st October 2001

The new on-line CRIC Web Forum/Discussion Board is now available. Click here to register.

25th September 2001

CRIC wishes to recruit a Research Fellow for: Bioinformatics and economies of knowledge in Europe and the USA. Details of this job and application details can be found on our vacancy page.

6th September 2001

CRIC wishes to recruit a Secretary/Clerical Assistant. Details of this job and application details can be found on our vacancy page.

6th July 2001

Two new CRIC papers are now available: A Working Paper, Technology and Economic Development: A Comparative Perspective by J Stan Metcalfe, and a Discussion Paper, Horndal at Heathrow? Co-operation, Learning and Innovation: Investigating the Processes of Runway Capacity Creation at Europe's Most Congested Airports by Bruce Tether and J Stan Metcalfe.

5th July 2001

Parts I (Management Report) and II (Research Reports) of the Mid Term Review 2000 are now available.

19th June 2001

A new CRIC Discussion Paper by J Stan Metcalfe, Institutions and Progress is now available online.

8th June 2001

A new CRIC Discussion Paper by Maureen McKelvey, Internet Entrepreneurship: Linux and the Dynamics of Open Source Software is now available online.

24th May 2001

A new CRIC Discussion Paper by Rod Coombs, Mark Harvey & Bruce Tether, Analysing Distributed Innovation Processes is now available online.

16th May 2001

A new CRIC Discussion Paper by Alan Warde and GindoTampubolon, Social Capital, Networks and Leisure Consumption is now available online.

14th May 2001

CRIC wishes to recruit a part-time Clerical Assistant/Accounts Clerk. Details of this job and application details can be found on our vacancy page.

20th April 2001

Details of the forthcoming Seminar & Workshop series and the Manchester STI Seminars are now available online.

2nd April 2001

Two new CRIC Discussion Papers are now available online. They are: Between Demand & Consumption: A Framework for Research by Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin, Sally Randles, Dale Southerton, Bruce Tether & Alan Warde, and Innovation, Growth & Competition: Evolving Complexity or Complex Evolution by J Stan Metcalfe, Maria Fonseca and Ronnie Ramlogan.

29th March 2001

CRIC has moved offices from the Tom Lupton Suite, University Precinct Centre to Devonshire House. See Visitors' Guide for more information.

7th February 2001

CRIC now has an online review facility for its paper series. Now, you can post your comments on CRIC working, briefing and discussion papers and see other people's reviews. See the list of current CRIC papers or individual abstracts for information.

12th January 2001

Details of a new book by Mark Boden and Ian Miles, Services and the Knowledge-Based Economy is now available.

15th December 2000

Details of the European Commission Marie Curie Host Fellowships programme is now available online.

6th December 2000

Details of a new book by Birgitte Andersen, Jeremy Howells, Richard Hull, Ian Miles and Joanne Roberts, Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy is now available online.

29th November 2000

A new CRIC Discussion Paper by Håkan Alm and Maureen McKelvey, When and Why does Cooperation Positively or Negatively Affect Innovation? An Exploration into Turbulent Waters is now available online.

20th November 2000

A new CRIC Briefing Paper from Professor Rod Coombs and Professor Stan Metcalfe, Universities, the Science Base and the Innovation Performance of the UK is now available online.

17th October 2000

A new CRIC Briefing Paper from Dr Jeremy Howells, Industry-Academic Job Links in the UK is now available online.

13th October 2000

Four new CRIC Discussion Papers are now available online. They are: Who Co-Operates For Innovation Within The Supply-Chain, And Why? by Dr. Bruce Tether, Shaping the Selection Environment: 'Chlorine in the Dock' by Andrew McMeekin, Expanding Tastes?: Cultural Omnivorousness & Social Change in the UK by Professor Alan Warde, Dr Mark Tomlinson & Andrew McMeekin and Innovation & Services: New Conceptual Frameworks by Dr Jeremy Howells.

11th October 2000

Details of the forthcoming CRIC seminars are now available online.

25th September 2000

The Scenario for Success in 2005 reports for Biotechnology in the UK and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the UK from the DGRC Project are now available online.

4th September 2000

Ishtiaq Hussain has been appointed as a Web Developer/Information Officer and his duties will include developing and maintaining the CRIC web site. He will also be responsible for providing Web development support and training to the CRIC staff.

11th August 2000

A new CRIC Working Paper from Stan Metcalfe and Andrew James, Emergent Innovation Systems and the Delivery of Clinical Services: The Case of Intraocular Lenses is now available online.

28th June 2000

To mark the opening of the Millennium Conference of the Joseph A Schumpeter we've added one way to take a bit of the confernce away with you.  The Millenium Conference now has its own screensaver which can be downloaded for free.

22nd June 2000

CRIC is looking for a Web Developer/Information Officer. Details of this job and application details can be found on our vacancy page.

21st June 2000

Final programme for the 8th Millennium Conference of the Joseph A Schumpeter Conference has been posted along with conference papers so far received.

26th May 2000

An udpated programme for the 8th Millennium Conference of the Joseph A Schumpeter Conference has been posted.  It now includes details of sessions and authors presenting within them.

18th April 2000

The provisional programme for the 8th Millennium Conference of the Joseph A Schumpeter Conference has been posted on this site.

10th April 2000

CRIC Public lecture announced! Professor Michael Best will be giving a CRIC-hosted public lecture on Thursday 4 May 2000 - 5.00pm.  Details are available here.

15th March 2000

Two new CRIC Discussion Papers are now available to download from this site.   Both available in pdf format they are Copyrights and Competition: Towards Policy Implications For Music Business Development by Birgitte Andersen, Vanus James, Zeljka Kozul & Dr Richard Kozul-Wright and An Evolutionary Model of Industrial Growth and Structural Change from Fabio Montobbio.

14th March 2000

Full versions of the two reports the CRIC E-Commerce teams produced for the Retail and Consumer Service Foresight Panel are now available online along with details of the continuing CRIC e-commerce programme.

18th February 2000

The CRIC web site launches into the new millennium with a new look.  Information throughout the site has been substantially revised and updated and navigation should now be easier and new information quicker to find.