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Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) [1] is a research institute based in Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester, UK. MIoIR is a centre of excellence in the fields of innovation studies, technology management and innovation management, science policy, technology policy, innovation policy, the study of emerging technologies (or em tech), responsible research and innovation, and research into socio-technical transitions with a focus on sustainability and digital transitions.

The Institute consists of a group of internationally renowned scholars and experts[2], with more than 50 full members, approximately 30 PhD researchers, and a range of associated academics. Since the 1970s the institute and its predecessor bodies have contributed to the national and international debate about science policy and innovation (as noted in connection with UK debates by Agar[3]).

Image of Alliance Manchester Business School.
Alliance Manchester Business School building, home of MIoIR.

The Institute is today housed in the newly refurbished Alliance Manchester Business School building on the corner of Oxford Road and Booth Street West, Manchester.

History

MIoIR has a history dating back to the 1960s, and the establishment of the Department of Liberal Studies in Science[4] at the Victoria University of Manchester (VUM). The department was established in 1967 as part of a wave of science studies centres in the UK and North America established in the late 1960s and 1970s. As with many of these centres it was initially former in order to liberalise degree level science education and produce graduates literate both in a science field and in the history, philosophy, politics and economics of science who would, it was supposed, be better able to compete for top jobs in industry and government with graduates from humanities and social sciences programmes[5]. The department eventually spawned two major research and teaching centres, the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and PREST (Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology)[6] which evolved into the present-day Manchester Institute of Innovation Research in 2004, with the merger of the Victoria University with UMIST. The two centres continue to collaborate in the present, and host an annual public lecture in honour of the founding professor of Liberal Studies in Science, Frederick Raphael Jevons[7].

On its creation MIoIR also incorporated the remaining staff of the joint UMIST-VUM ESRC funded Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), a ten year collaborative research centre formed by Professors from PREST and UMIST that ran to September 2001[8].

Notable members and graduates

Frederick Jevons (founding professor)

Trevor Pinch[9] (M.Sc. graduate)

Peter Hammill (Musician and graduate)

Luke Georghiou (former director, current member)

Philip Gummett (former professor)

Jarlath Ronayne[10] (academic and university leader, Victoria University of Technology)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Manchester Institute of Innovation Research website".
  2. ^ "Our people - Manchester Institute of Innovation Research - The University of Manchester". www.mioir.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  3. ^ Agar, Jon (2019). Science Policy Under Thatcher. UCL Press. p. 54. ISBN 9781787353411.
  4. ^ "University of Manchester, Department of Liberal Studies in Science Archive - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  5. ^ Jevons, F. R. (1967). "The Honours School of Liberal Studies in Science, University of Manchester". The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education. 5 (2): 275–279. doi:10.1177/002072096700500216. ISSN 0020-7209.
  6. ^ "Annual report / Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  7. ^ "Fred Jevons lecture: Equity for Women in Science | Alliance MBS". www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  8. ^ "UK Government Web Archive". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  9. ^ "Pioneering professor Trevor Pinch dies at 69 | Department of Science & Technology Studies". sts.cornell.edu. 2021-12-20. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  10. ^ Murphy, Jennifer. "Library Guides: Victoria University Archives: Victoria University of Technology / Victoria University". libraryguides.vu.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-10-12.

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