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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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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 […]
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 “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 […]