Marcela Miozzo
Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School
Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School
Schools
- Alliance Manchester Business School
- King’s Business School
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Alliance Manchester Business School
Biography
Marcela Miozzo is Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation and Director of the MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on the sources and consequences of innovation on firms and the economy, and, in particular, on the role of inter-organisational collaboration for innovation. She has studied the technological and organisational effects of outsourcing and offshoring of business services, the relation between innovation collaboration of business services firms and intellectual property protection strategies, mergers and acquisition of science-based firms, and partnerships for innovation between firms and universities in science-based sectors. Her research has been published in journals such as Research Policy, Organization Studies and Long Range Planning.
She has carried out a large number of international comparative projects financed by the Anglo German Foundation, British Academy, EC, ESRC, EPSRC, ISBE and Tyndall. Miozzo has been a member of the ESRC Peer Review Panel ESRC/DFID Growth Programme (2011), Commissioning Panel of ESRC Rising Powers Networks (2009-10), member of EPSRC Peer Review College (2003-2005) and ESRC Peer Review College (2015-2019), and of the Innovation Caucus of ESRC and Innovate UK (2016-2018). She has been appointed Fellow of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership, University of Suffolk USA (2011-). She was visiting professor at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, Buenos Aires (2004), External Examiner, MSc Management, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College (2005-2009) and elected member of the executive of the International Theme Committee, Academy of Management (2013-2017).
Education
PhD, University of Massachussetts (Fulbright grant)
MA, MERIT, The Netherlands
BA, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Further information
Selected projects
1. Inter-organisational cooperation for innovation and business services firms
Anglo-German Foundation ‘High-tech business services in Germany and the UK’ 2003
British Academy Larger Research grant ‘The developmental role of knowledge intensive business services in Argentina and Brazil’ 2004-2005
ESRC ‘Service multinational enterprise acquisitions and linkages in emerging economies’ 2005-2008
ESRC ‘Using intellectual property protection to capture value from innovation in knowledge-intensive service firms’ 2012- 2014
2. Inter-organisational cooperation for innovation and science-based firms
ISBE/ESRC RAKE ''Do cross boder acquisitions affect local and regional knowledge creation?: an analysis of knowledge-intensive firms'' 2010
ESRC Follow on Funding ''Funding gap or trap?: effect of foreign acquisitions of science-based firms on local knowledge transfer and spillovers'' 2011
Teaching and supervision
PhD supervision
She supervises PhD projects on the relation between business organisation and innovation, both internationally-comparative projects and those related to particular sectors, such as business services, or of the organisation and innovation of particular multinational firms
King’s Business School
Marcela Miozzo is Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at King's Business School. She is visiting professor at Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont College, USA and honorary professor at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachussetts, USA (Fulbright grant) and MA from Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
She specialises in research at the intersection of the fields of innovation studies, firm strategy, and production systems. Her current research interests are on the growth, internationalisation, and collaboration for innovation of both services firms and science-based firms.
She has carried out a large number of international comparative projects financed by the Anglo-German Foundation, British Academy, European Commission, Economic and Social Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Institute of Small Business Enterprise, and Tyndall. Her research has been published in leading journals such as British Journal of Management, Research Policy, and Organisation Studies.
Publications
- Which types of knowledge-intensive business services firms collaborate with universities for innovation? 01 September 2019
- Productive opportunities, uncertainty, and science-based firm emergence 27 April 2018
- Capturing value from innovation in knowledge-intensive service firms: the role of competitive strategy 01 October 2018
- The Internationalisation of Services: are the modes changing? 01 January 2002
- Capabilities of large services outsourcing firms: The "outsourcing plus staff transfer model" in EDS and IBM 11 May 2011
- Strategy and structure of service multinationals and their impact on linkages with local firms 28 March 2012
- Career patterns and competences of PhDs in science and engineering in the knowledge economy: The case of graduates from a UK research-based university 01 September 2010
- Does the UK have a 'comparative institutional advantage' that is supportive of the IT services sector? 01 July 2011
- Modularity and innovation in knowledge-intensive business services: IT outsourcing in Germany and the UK 01 November 2005
- Services and Innovation: demand-led changes in business organisation 01 January 2001
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