It was great to present joint work with Kaushik Sengupta, Myriam Vilasco Gamberoni, and Maureen McKelvey on AstraZeneca’s research collaborations with French academiaย at this yearโs edition of the Workshop on Medical Innovation and Healthcare (WOMI) in Valencia. As in every WOMI over the last 15 years, we had very engaging […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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I am grateful for the opportunity to advance my research on repurposing innovation through a grant from the Adlerbert Research Foundation. The project โ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐จ๐ด: ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต?โ 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 Schoolโs 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 โTeam Diversity and Success in Collaborative Research: Empirical Evidence from Grant Proposals […]
During this year’s Eu-SPRI Conference at TU Dortmund, I had the chance to present joint work with Olga Ryazanova and Peter McNamara on “Understanding relative trends in research use by policymakers: Comparative analysis of three small advanced economies.” We conduct this study as part of our Research Ireland/SFI-funded research project […]
Our editorial article with Magnus Gulbrandsen, Maureen McKelvey, and Fiona A. Miller accompanying the special issue on โRethinking Medical Innovation: Organizing R&D, Responding to Crisis, Delivering Health Servicesโ in Innovation: Organization & Management is now online (as open access article). In this piece, we elaborate on the specific characteristics of […]