MIOIR Seminar Series with Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)

Dates:	17 November 2025
Times:	15:30 - 16:30
What is it:	Seminar
Organiser:	Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (AMBS)
Who is it for:	University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni
Speaker:	Dr Guendalina Anzolin, Prof Eoin O'Sullivan, Dr Viktória Döme

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Gaps and Challenges Along the Innovation Lifecycle: The Role of Innovation Intermediaries

Speakers: Dr. Guendalina Anzolin, Prof. Eoin O’Sullivan, Dr. Viktória Döme Chair: Prof. Elvira Uyarra Abstract:

Over the past decade, the need to sustain technological change has increasingly demanded the collaboration of diverse actors along the innovation and industrial lifecycles. While R&D activities remain central to discussions on innovation, the process itself extends to a wider range of activities that are provided by a different set of organisations. The emerging challenges on the technology side raise questions about the activities that publicly funded organisations undertake to fill the gaps, as well as about a ‘division of labour’ between organisations that act at different stages of the innovation life cycle. The way in which organisations coordinate (or not) provides preliminary evidence on the role they play in their local ecosystem. We will present the results of a comparative project examining the High Value Manufacturing Catapult in the UK and the Manufacturing USA Institute MxD in the US, as well as insights from our work on intermediaries in Singapore.

Speaker Bios:

• Guendalina Anzolin is Research Associate at the Center for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

• Dr O'Sullivan is a Research Professor and Babbage Fellow of Technology & Innovation Policy in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Eoin is the Director of the Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy based at the Institute for Manufacturing.

• Viktória Döme is currently the CSTI Policy and Impact Lead at the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Details: Refreshments will be available for networking from 3:15 pm, before the seminar in the 9th floor common room. We encourage AMBS and UoM staff and students to join us in person. An online option will be available for external guests (see below Teams link). Please feel free to share this invitation with your networks.