Andrea Mina - Senior Research Fellow

Laurea, Summa cum Laude (University of Turin), MSc (University of Sussex), PhD (University of Manchester), PhD (University of Turin).

Andrea Mina is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. He is also Research Associate of the Business Economics and Management Division of the Judge Business School (Cambridge) and Associate and Co-investigator of the newly established UK Innovation Research Centre @ Cambridge University and Imperial College London. Andrea actively contributes to the teaching of Business Economics (MSc in Management, Judge Business School) and of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Cambridge (MPhil in Entrepreneurial Science and Innovation Policy).

His research focuses on the problem of technical, organisational and institutional change with special emphasis on the emergence of new technologies, dynamics of innovation systems and networks, industry growth and evolution and the financing of innovation. Andrea's research has been funded, among others, by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the European Commission.

Selected Publications

Mina, A. (with H. Lahr and A. Hughes) ‘The Demand and Supply of External Finance for Innovative Firms’, under review.

Mina, A. (with K. Wennberg, C. Lee and B. Tether) 'The Determinants of Diversification in Professional Service Firms: Evidence from the UK Design Sector', under review.

Mina, A. (with B. Tether and C. Lee) 'Organizational Architecture, Knowledge-Types and Configuring Space to Compete in Knowledge-based Services'. under review

Mina, A. (with J. Probert and D. Connell) 'R&D Service Firms: The Hidden Engine of the high-Tech Economy?, under review.

Mina, A. (with J. Probert and J.S. Metcalfe) 'Business Experimentation through Corporate Venture Capital', FINNOV FP7 Working Paper 3.5

Mina, A. (with S. Deakin) (2012) 'Institutions and Innovation: Is Corporate Governance a Missing Link?', in Pittard, M., Monotti, A. and J. Duns (Eds.) 'Business Innovation: A Legal Balancing Act - Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, Competition and Corporate Laws', Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, forthcoming.

Mina, A. (with A. Hughes) (2012) 'The UK R&D Landscape', Report for the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE)

Mina, A. (with Li, Cher, Tether, B., Wennberg, K.) (2011), 'Organisational Learning and the Internationalisation of Professional Service Firms', DRUID Working Paper.

Mina, A. (with H. Lahr) (2011) 'Venture Capital in Europe: Recovery, Downsizing or Breakdown?', FINNOV FP7 Working Paper 3.2.

Mina, A. (with Wennberg, K., Lee, C. and B. Tether) (2010) ‘Turning Digital: Diversification in UK Design Consulting’, Imperial College London Business School Working Paper, March.

Mina, A. (with Samantha Sharpe), (2010), 'Risk, Capital investments and Innovation', EC FP7 FINNOV Discussion Paper 3.1, forthcoming.

Mina, A. (with Connell, D. and Hughes, A.) (2009), 'Models of Technology Development in Intermediate Research Organisations', CBR Working Paper Series Paper No. 396, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

Mina, A. (with A. Hughes), (2009), 'The Impact of the Patent System on SMEs', book chapter prepared for the UK Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP), forthcoming.

Mina, A., (2009), 'The Emergence of New Knowledge, Market Evolution and the Dynamics of Micro-Innovation Systems', Economics of Innovation and New Technology 18(5): 447-466.

Mina, A. (with J. Costa-Font and C. Courbage), (2009), 'Innovation and Health: Pathways to New Technologies', Economics of Innovation and New Technology 18(5): 403-406.

Mina, A. (with D. Consoli), (2009), 'An Evolutionary Perspective on Health Innovation Systems', Journal of Evolutionary Economics', 19(2): 297-319.

Mina, A. (with D. Consoli, A. McMeekin, J.S. Metcalfe and R. Ramlogan), (2009), 'The Process of Healthcare Innovation: Problem Sequences, Systems and Symbiosis' in J. Costa-i-Font, C. Courbage and A. McGuire (eds.) The Economics of New Health Technologies: Incentives, Organisation and Financing, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.

Mina, A. (with R. Ramlogan, G. Tampubolon and J. S. Metcalfe) (2007) 'Mapping Evolutionary Trajectories: Applications to the Growth and Transformation of Medical Knowledge', Research Policy 36(5): 789-806.

A. Mina (with R. Ramlogan, G. Tampubolon and J. S. Metcalfe) (2007) 'Networks of Knowledge: The Distributed Nature of Medical Innovation', Scientometrics 70(3): 459-489.

Mina, A. (2007) 'Instituted Economic Processes in the Telecommunications Sector', in Harvey, M., Ramlogan R. and S. Randles (eds.) Karl Polanyi: New Perspectives on the Place of the Economy in Society, Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK.

Mina, A. (with R. Ramlogan) (2007) 'Health Innovation Processes at the Public-Private Interface', book chapter in Windrum, P. and P. Koch (eds.), Innovation in Public Services: Management, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Mina, A. (with P. Cunningham and D. Gagliardi) (2007) 'Regional Investment in Research: The Case of Emilia Romagna', ETEPS Report for the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) of the European Commission.

Mina, A. (with D. Consoli, D. Gagliardi and B. Tether) (2005) 'Skills and Innovation', Report for the Department of Trade and Industry (UK).

Mina, A. (with J.S. Metcalfe and A. James) (2005) 'Emergent Innovation Systems and the Delivery of Clinical Services: The Case of Intra-Ocular Lenses', Research Policy 34(9): 1283-1304.