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Date: 25th November 2011
Venue: IBM Hursley, Winchester
 The Innovation Summit, UK~IRC's annual one day conference for practitioners, policy-makers and academics, took place on 25th November at IBM Hursley. It was a chance to debate 'hot-topics' in innovation and share best practice. This year's event, entitled Growing Through Innovation, united the latest academic research with real-world business concerns, to provide evidence-driven discussions on using innovation to sustain growth.
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22 June 2011 at NESTA
Open Innovation (OI) has become a "way of living" for many businesses. Andy Cosh and Joanne Jin Zhang and the research team designed a survey to find out the facts behind the hype. Between June and November 2010 a survey was carried out among 12,000 UK firms with up to 999 employees, covering both manufacturing and business services sector. 1,202 firms completed the survey. The first set of results are now ready.
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 The Report
27 January 2011 at the Kaetsu Conference Centre, Cambridge
This one day workshop was a joint UK~IRC and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills event. The four main themes for the workshop were:
 - Recent evidence from UK CIS
- International evidence and lessons on CIS
- University and business interactions
- Innovation - new empirical evidence
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UK~IRC Annual Innovation Summit:
Re-thinking the Impact of Innovation
Date: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Location: The Judge Business School, Cambridge
 The topic for the 2010 UK~IRC's annual conference will be "Re-thinking the Impact of Innovation".
This one day Summit is intended to draw on international and public and private sector experience of best practice methodologies and practices adopted in the public and private sectors in attempting to assess the impact of innovation activities, including research expenditure and accessing external knowledge.
Attention will also be paid to the similar range of problems faced in this area by major charitable and third sector funders who have major investments in support of research.
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Early Career Researcher Workshop: New Frontiers in Innovation
Date: 13-14 September 2010
Location: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
 This was an intensive 1.5 day workshop for early career scholars working on the frontiers of innovation research which took place at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge on 13th and 14th September 2010. The event, organised by UK~IRC Research Fellows Dr Cher Li (Imperial) and Dr Joanne Zhang (Cambridge), welcomed researchers from as far field as Tsinghua and Melbourne, as well as various European institutions.
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As we come out of recession, how can the UK become more competitive?
How can we create an effective 'innovation ecosystem' to stimulate growth and wealth creation in the economy?
The event was organised by the UK~IRC in collaboration with QinetiQ and the ESRC Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge who had invited strategy and policy leaders in government and industry, researchers active in innovation methodology and academics and business people seeking to maximise wealth creation from advances in science and technology to an all-day Innovation Summit at The Royal Society to debate these crucial issues of our times in a wide-ranging discussion underpinned by challenging evidence-based academic research into how to make economic value out of technological innovation.
 UK~IRC announces results from the largest survey of academics
20th October 2009 at NESTA
The UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC) launched the results of the latest CBR research on how British academics interact with businesses and other sectors of the economy at NESTA. The research presented is based on a research project (RES-171-25-0018) which is part of the CBR project Impact of HEIs on Regional Economies Initiative. This project was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in partnership with the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) in Northern Ireland, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW).
The one and half day workshop on "How universities can influence business, innovation and competitiveness" explored various aspects of university-business interactions and had an invited audience from business, academia and the policy community.
On 27th May 2008 the (CBR) and the (CIHE) held a research seminar on how universities help boost business competitiveness at Microsoft's headquarters at Cardinal Place in London. Based on CBR's research and findings, which will be published in a new report, universities should play a more diverse role in knowledge exchange with businesses.
2nd Annual Cambridge Conference on Regulation, Inspection & Improvement held at Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge on 12 September 2007.
This workshop was held at Robinson College, Cambridge on 27th July 2007. It was organised by Alan Hughes as part of the Commercialisation Programme of the Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Centre (CIKC) for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Photonics and Electronics. Discussion at the workshop centred around keynote presentations from both an industry and a university perspective. The workshop was designed to address the key challenges in defining and designing appropriate metrics for research council and other publicly funded initiatives in the university industry knowledge exchange and commercialisation areas.
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The launch of Multinationals in their Communities:
A Social Capital Approach to Corporate Citizenship Projects (published by Palgrave) by , and David Bek was held on 12th June 2007 at 6.00pm with generous support from at their headquarters at 20 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AN.
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New Hall, Cambridge (by invitation only)
Sponsored by the TTP Group
Are minority shareholders in transition economies getting a fair deal? Should your shares in Company A be worth more - or less - after it has taken over Company B? And is the prevailing wisdom about the impact of law on stock market development actually right? All these issues and many more were on the agenda when the CBR hosted the above workshop.
Please see pages 6-7 of issue 12 .
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Conference Centre, Robinson College, Cambridge
The findings of CBR's "British Enterprise: thriving or surviving?" survey were the focus of a one-day conference to which businessmen, policy-makers and academics had been invited to discuss the important policy implications they reveal. The report of the survey was published simulataneously.
Please see pages 4-5 of issue 12 Top Floor.
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Conference Centre, Robinson College, Cambridge (by invitation only)
Sponsored by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
 The Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge has made a major contribution to evidence-based policy
over the last decade, through a range of ESRC-funded work on two themes.
This conference, opened by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, showcased some of this work. Our research on Innovation includes the
large-scale surveys that regularly take the pulse of Britain's smaller businesses, and have pioneered the benchmarking of
UK and US innovation activities, as well as seminal work on the impact of insolvency law on entrepreneurship. Our
work on Governance includes studies of stakeholder-versus-shareholder models ofcapitalism, and of responses to
corporate misbehaviour in the 1990s.
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Venue: Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
A uniquely wide-ranging conference at Cambridge University in March will bring together speakers from
evolutionary behaviour, business studies, neuroscience, economics and law to explore the fundamental importance
of values in a free-market economy.
Free Enterprise: Values in Action, which is co-sponsored by the CBR, will be the forum for a broad debate on whether business ethics are
merely nice - or completely necessary - for success in developed economies, and whether those involved in
successful private enterprise are selfish and amoral, or co-operative and reliable.
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Venue: Conference Room, The Royal Academy of Engineering, 29 Great Peter Street,
London SW1P 3LW.
This event was held as part of ESRC Social Science Week 06.
This half-day conference, on Wednesday 15 March 2006, presented the results from the latest panel survey of the UK's
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by the Centre for Business Research.
For more than 10 years now, the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge has been carrying out regular
surveys of the UK's small and medium-sized enterprise sector. These large-scale surveys, funded by the ESRC, put a finger
on the pulse of Britain's smaller businesses to find out how they are faring - and the results provide a detailed
and authoritative picture of this vital sector of the UK economy.
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This half-day conference on 8 February 2006, co-hosted by The Cambridge-MIT Institute and
the CBI, was held to present and discuss some of the findings from a unique transatlantic research survey
comparing the innovative behaviour and performance of British and American companies. The Cambridge-MIT Institute-funded International Innovation Benchmarking project is being conducted jointly by the Centre for Business
Research at the University of Cambridge and the Industrial
Performance Center at MIT. It offers for the first time a like-for-like comparison of 4,000 UK and US firms of
all sizes and what they do to make themselves innovative.
To download the presentations, and a 24-page report about the research, please visit the .
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