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Launch of Programme on Regional Innovation Blog
The Programme on Regional Innovation has set up a blog to discuss past and future events.
Release date: 14/08/08
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Universities, businesses and the role of knowledge networks
Interactions between entrepreneurs, academics and innovators are taking centre stage in London next week at the launch of a Cambridge journal investigating the role of these key players in bringing research to practical use.
Release date: 25/07/08
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Innovation workshop to foster international collaboration
Collaborative approaches to business innovation are being explored today in a workshop for industry leaders, prominent academics and up-and-coming researchers.
Release date: 29/05/08
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Major new report on Innovation in the UK's services sectors to be launched at NESTA event
NESTA will be launching its latest report, 'Taking services seriously' on 2 May. The report uncovers the dynamics of innovation and was written by researchers from the Programme on Regional Innovation.
Release date: 28/04/08
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Absorptive Capacity and Regional Patterns of Innovation Paper now available on DIUS Website
New research on absorptive capacity and regional innovation is now available on the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) website as a background paper to 'Innovation Nation', the White Paper on Science and Innovation.
Release date: 17/03/08
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Latest Research on Regional Variations and Absorptive Capacity in the UK
The Programme on Regional Innovation has undertaken research on absorptive capacity for DIUS. The findings are shown in a working paper.
Release date: 01/02/08
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New Analysis published on the Role of the Third Sector in the UK
A new analysis on the role of the Third Sector in the UK has been recently published by the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Release date: 28/01/08
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Michael Kitson presented at World Entrepreneurship Summit 2008
Michael Kitson presented at The World Entrepreneurship Summit 2008 held on 10 & 11 January 2008 at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster
Release date: 07/01/08
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PRI presented at the 54th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, 2007
Maria Abreu, one of PRI’s Research Fellows presented a paper on “Understanding Hidden Innovation: Services in the UK” at the 54th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International held in Savannah, USA in November 2007.
Release date: 03/01/08
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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is a new interdisciplinary Journal published by Oxford University Press
Release date: 13/12/07
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PRI to undertake research project for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
The Programme on Regional Innovation is delighted to announce their most recent research project which will analyse innovation in services and which is funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
Release date: 04/05/07
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Survey on the Impact of CMI Programmes on Professional Life and Competitiveness
Have you attended a CMI event in the past? If you have, please click on the link and fill in our online survey - it only takes 8-10 minutes to complete. This questionnaire has been designed to assess the impact of The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) events on participants' professional activities.
Release date: 10/04/07
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PRI presented at the EU Programme on Regions for Economic Change Conference in March 2007
Michael Kitson presented at the EU Conference on "Fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities” in Brussels on 7 March 2007
Release date: 12/03/07
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Launch of Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economics and Society
New Journal: information is now available online about the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economics and Society.
Release date: 12/03/07
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PRI Research Associate to present at the ITEC International Forum in Beijing, China in March 2007
Vadim Grinevich will present his latest findings on regional patterns of sectoral contributions to UK productivity growth with a reference to existing configuration of university-indusrty interactions at the ITEC International Forum in Beijing, China in March 2007.
Release date: 01/02/07
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New Research on Regional Competitiveness at CBR Conference
Michael Kitson presented a paper on ‘Regional Variations in Innovation and Enterprise and their Implications for Regional Policy’ at the Centre for Business Research Conference on Enterprise and Innovation – the role of public policy for SMEs held on Tuesday 20th February 2007 at Robinson College, Cambridge. The paper was co-authored by Maria Abreu, Vadim Grinevich and Maria Savona.
Release date: 01/02/07
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PRI to present at Workshop in Kiel, Germany in April 2007
The PRI will be presenting its latest research findings at a Workshop on Agglomeration and Growth in Knowledge-Based Societies in Kiel, Germany in April 2007
Release date: 05/01/07
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The Programme on Regional Innovation Launches Project On Business Networks and Innovation
The Programme on Regional innovation is supporting an analysis of business networks in the Greater South East to provide insights and new evidence.
Release date: 03/01/07
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New research on The Competitive Economic Performance of English Cities
A new research report on the competitive economic performance of the 56 largest cities in England has just been published.
Release date: 08/12/06
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The Programme on Regional Innovation present at DTI
What helps business absorb knowledge and does the ability vary across the regions of the UK? New insights were revealed by the Programme on Regional Innovation at a DTI conference at the British Academy on Friday 1st December.
Release date: 04/12/06
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Presentations from the Poverty and Place Workshop are now available
The Programme on Regional Innovation in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society held a workshop on Poverty and Place in September 2006.
Release date: 20/11/06
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Enterprising Places Report
What makes an enterprising place? Find out by reading The Enterprising Places report which is now available to download. The Enterprising Places report is the first in a series of reports produced by the Programme on Regional Innovation.
Release date: 20/11/06
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Forum on Knowledge Exchange, Networks and Regional Innovation
The next Competitiveness Forum on “knowledge exchange, networks and regional innovation” features expert contributions from specialists from around the world. The Forum is organised by the Programme on Regional Innovation in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press and is sponsored by Innovation Exchange (IXC UK).
Release date: 20/11/06
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Workshop on regional innovation attracts international interest
A workshop on generating ideas for Regional Development has proved immensely popular with young researchers from around the world.
Release date: 12/06/06
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“When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave”
When Richard Florida, the US public policy expert and best-selling author, addressed CMI’s 2005 National Competitiveness Summit last month, he issued a stark challenge to UK plc: "Replace the goal of Competitiveness with that of Creativity, and focus on your Wellbeing Index instead of your GDP".
Release date: 08/11/05
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Worcester source of Ipswich inspiration
30 senior industrialists, academics and government representatives gathered together in early October for the second leg of a CMI funded transatlantic leadership exchange between Ipswich in the UK and Worcester in the US state of Massachusetts.
Release date: 30/09/05
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Leadership exchange moves the goalposts
Portman Road, home of Ipswich Town Football Club, will be the venue for the second leg of a novel, transatlantic 'leadership exchange' programme that is being supported by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 10/08/05
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Venture capital, finance and regional development
A Cambridge-MIT Institute Competitiveness Forum, held to increase understanding of the role that venture capital plays in regional development, attracted a capacity audience at Cambridge University last month.
Release date: 05/07/05
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Leadership exchange keys to regional renaissance
In a CMI initiative to help unlock the knowledge-based potential of regional economies, a novel transatlantic ‘leadership exchange’ brought 30 regional leaders from the East of England and Massachusetts together in the US in April 2005.
Release date: 09/05/05
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Leadership exchange keys to regional renaissance
Senior industrialists, academics and government representatives are meeting in the US next week on the first leg of a transatlantic leadership exchange that will help them understand and grow knowledge-based regional economies.
Release date: 21/04/05
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Exchanging Knowledge - Boosting Competitiveness
The relationships between academia and industry, and ways in which the two can work together more effectively to boost UK competitiveness, will dominate the agenda at a major conference that takes place in Edinburgh next week.
Release date: 24/11/04
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CMI weighs up 'Entrepreneurship in the Regions'
Policy-makers, academics and members of the business community are meeting at the Møller Centre in Cambridge on 7 May 2004, to explore Entrepreneurship in the Regions.
Release date: 04/05/04
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CMI and RINET analyse ‘The State of Knowledge Exchange in the UK’
Policy-makers, academics and members of the business community are meeting today to explore knowledge exchange between universities and firms – and what regional development agencies can do to help promote such knowledge exchange for the benefit of their regional economies.
Release date: 27/02/04
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The CMI National Competitiveness Summit 2002
The second annual CMI summit held on Tuesday 19 November saw senior figures from government, industry and academia candidly debating the influences affecting Britain’s technological performance.
Release date: 20/11/02
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The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP's Speech to CMI's National Competitiveness Summit
The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP< Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, discussed the issues facing UK firms in responding to, and sustaining, technological change and in translating it into commercial success.
Release date: 20/11/02
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Leading academic calls for changes to copyright law
Yesterday's CMI workshop on Copyright and E-Learning highlighted the need for government law to catch up with today's teaching practices, where lessons can take place online as well as in the classroom.
Release date: 11/12/01
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National Competitiveness Summit 2001
The first annual NCN summit is to be held in Cambridge today, involving government, industry and academic leaders from both sides of the Atlantic.
Release date: 01/11/01
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Entries make entrepreneurs
A CMI workshop to be held on 12 June in Nottingham aims to help universities to teach their students how to become the entrepreneurs of the future.
Release date: 05/06/01
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Working Together: CMI forges new UK links
CMI launches a regular workshop programme in partnership with the UK Association of Science Enterprise Centres. Seminars focusing on competitiveness and enterprise are to be held in universities across the country.
Release date: 09/03/01
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