Collaborations
International collaborations lie at the core of CIMR's ethos and research endeavors. 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 centers.
Partnership 1: CIMR – Kogod School of Business, American University.
On Thursday April 19 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 Tomasz Mroczkowski (Kogod, American University) and Professor Helen Lawton Smith (CIMR/Business School/Birkbeck). It quickly developed into joint research projects involving Professor David Bartlett, Professor Erran Carmel (Kogod), Dr Muthu De Silva, Saverio Romeo and Filipe Martins (CIMR).
With support from the Business School, it has grown into the organisation of joint events and research activities including a joint project on quantum technology (Romeo, Carmel and Lawton Smith). A teaching programme will follow.
Partnership 2: CIMR – Vaasa University, Finland
This collaboration began life in October 2021, and will be formalised though a memorandum of Agreement.
Its origins lie in long-term formal and informal academic engagement between several CIMR colleagues including Professor Helen Lawton Smith and Dr Muthu De Silva (Birkbeck) and Professor Martin Meyer 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 Birkbeck team date back to Professor Meyer’s time at Sussex University (Lawton Smith) and University of Kent (De Silva and other Birkbeck Colleagues). Joining us in this collaboration is Professor 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 Quality & Innovation for Service Excellence (QISE) 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 a “Getting to know researchers across the institutions” online meeting mid-February 2022 at which researchers from both Business Schools met each other.
The first joint event is a CIMR Debates in Public Policy workshop on May 19th 2022 on “Venture Capital industry and Entrepreneurial Finance”. It will feature speakers from CIMR and UIC Barcelona and the British Venture Capital Association.
CIMR is grateful to the support given to these collaborations by Ms Andrea Williams, Internationalisation & Partnerships, Business School.
The collaboration is based on research, joint PhD student activities and joint events. It will be extended into joint teaching programmes.
On June 1 2022, the partners are hosting a hybrid event in Birkbeck on How to succeed in Global, Sustainable Innovation: Academic and Practitioner perspectives, with presentations from each university as well as from Innovate UK, Intellectual Property Office, UK and the Climate Policy Initiative.
Other Collaborations
CIMR also has very close ties with Circle, Lund University in Sweden 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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