Researcher wins Best Paper Award
A new, prestigious international award for a Centre for Business Research (CBR) researcher. Andrea Mina (CBR Senior Research Fellow), with co-authors Raffaele Danna and Martina Iori, respectively Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa,…

San Francisco Chronicle: Venture capital investment does not boost patents by technology firms
The effect of venture capital on the patenting output of tech firms is insignificant or negative, finds a study by Andrea Mina, University Lecturer in Economics of Innovation and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge…
VC and patents
Venture capital investment does not boost patents by technology firms, finds new study at University of Cambridge Judge Business School. 'Patenting has much sharper effects on VC investments than the other way around'. Venture capital firms are successful by picking…

The Guardian: How Britain’s economy got dumber: Pfizer’s bid for AstraZeneca
Reporter Aditya Chakrabortty looks at the history of AstraZeneca and the importance of spending on R&D. Research by Andrea Mina, University Lecturer in the Economics of Innovation and Alan Hughes, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research is…
Dynamic paper scoops award for Dr Andrea Mina
The cost of R&D and innovation is the subject of an award-winning paper by CJBS's Andrea Mina. Andrea, CJBS Lecturer in Economics of Innovation, and Henry Lahr, a Research Fellow from Cambridge's Centre for Business Research, won the Best Paper…

Research Fellows win CONCORDi-2013 Best Paper Award at 4th European Conference on Corporate R&D and Innovation in Seville
The CONCORDi-2013 Scientific Committee granted the CONCORDi-2013 Best Paper Award to the best selected work presented at the 4th European Conference on Corporate R&D and Innovation which took place on 26-27 September 2013 in Seville. The paper "Dynamic financial constraints…

Final FINNOV (Financing Innovation and Growth) conference takes place
Members of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) contributed to the final conference of the FP7 FINNOV project (Finance, Innovation & Growth), which focused on the need for finance to be reformed so that it serves innovation and value creation…

Centre for Business Research (CBR) news from 2011
UK~IRC Innovation Summit 2011 - Growing through Innovation 26 November 2011 The Innovation Summit, UK~IRC's annual one day conference for practitioners, policy-makers and academics, took place on 25 November 2011 at IBM Hursley in Winchester. It was a chance to…

Centre for Business Research (CBR) news from 2008
Innovation systems, innovation policy and the future of university-industry knowledge exchange 7 August 2008 On 14 August 2008 Professor Alan Hughes will be giving a public lecture presented by the National Academies Forum at the John Curtin School of Medical…
