Yearly Archives: 2025

I am grateful for the opportunity to advance my research on repurposing innovation through a grant from the Adlerbert Research Foundation. The project “𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘴: 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵?” studies whether and to what extent existing medicines are repurposed, i.e. used in disease areas other than the […]

It was a great please to present my joint work with Olga Ryazanova and Peter McNamara – who are both former colleagues from Maynooth University – on the use of academic research in policy documents across disciplines in three small advanced economies. We got very good comments and feedback on […]

On 16 September 2025, I spent a very interesting day with delegates from Texas, academic colleagues, and students from our MSc programme in Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship at AstraZeneca’s Gothenburg site, its BioVentureHub, and the GoCo Health Innovation City. We learned a lot about the innovation ecosystems and the collaborative cultures among […]

Maynooth University had been my academic home for more than eight years. During this time, I had the opportunity to advance my research, to develop the innovation-related curriculum at the School of Business, and to contribute to the development of the PhD programme and the School’s Strategic Plan. It has […]

I was delighted to present joint research with Paola Zappa from University College London’s Global Business School for Health at the R&D Management Conference 2025, held this year in the beautiful city of Pisa, Italy. Our paper, titled “Team Diversity and Success in Collaborative Research: Empirical Evidence from Grant Proposals […]

Our editorial article with Magnus Gulbrandsen, Maureen McKelvey, and Fiona A. Miller accompanying the special issue on “Rethinking Medical Innovation: Organizing R&D, Responding to Crisis, Delivering Health Services” in Innovation: Organization & Management is now online (as open access article). In this piece, we elaborate on the specific characteristics of […]