Manchester Institute of Innovation Research

The Institute consists of a group of internationally renowned scholars and experts,[3] with more than 50 full members, approximately 30 PhD researchers, and a range of associated academics.

MIoIR has a history dating back to the 1960s, and the establishment of the Department of Liberal Studies in Science[8] at the Victoria University of Manchester (VUM).

The two centres continue to collaborate in the present, and host an annual public lecture in honour of the founding professor of Liberal Studies in Science, Frederick Raphael Jevons.

[11] On its creation MIoIR also incorporated the remaining staff of the joint UMIST-VUM ESRC funded Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), a ten year collaborative research centre formed by Professors from PREST and UMIST that ran to September 2001.

[12] Frank Geels (currently Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transitions at MIoIR, highly cited scholar)[13] Luke Georghiou (former director, current member, Vice-President of the University of Manchester) Michael Gibbons (scientist) (former professor, co-author of The New Production of Knowledge (1994), former secretary general[14] of the Association of Commonwealth Universities) Frederick Jevons (founding professor, later vice-chancellor of Deakin University) Trevor Pinch[15] (M.Sc.