The EPIC Research Centre at Northumbria University is an interdisciplinary group of researchers with interests in how innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development relate to the places and regions in which they occur. EPIC is not an acronym, but the letters represent a fluid constellation of research themes within the Centre.
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Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at Northumbria University, Newcastle Business School
At Insights North East, and in partnership with the EPIC Centre, Northumbria, we are organising an afternoon event on incubators, co-working spaces and their potential for contributing to entrepreneurship in North East England. 20th June at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. https://lnkd.in/eaDZNrJ2
Fantastic new publication by Northumbria researcher Tiago Teixeira.
I just published in Economic Geography. In my paper, I examine how the Brazilian state established Embraer, one of the largest aerospace companies in the world today. I also discuss how Embraer was privatized in the 1990s, and as a result, fostered a process of social downgrading that was detrimental to its engineering workforce. If you are interested in state-firm relations, global production networks, strategic (indigenous) coupling, and labor, please feel free to access the paper in the link below. https://lnkd.in/eUhbXhTB
In EPIC Research Centre Seminar Series this month, we had Christopher Storey telling us a once upon a time story about satisficing heuristics for sucessful crowdsourcing campaigns and Afua Owusu-Kwarteng talking about science-industry collaboration in Sub-Saharan Africa minding various institutional voids.
For any economic development practitioners with an interest in how to promote their rural economies...
Could you help shape a new practical analytics platform supported by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs designed to guide #rural #business policy? Working with the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, academics from Northumbria are inviting those working in #economicdevelopment and #regeneration to an online session on 28 February to give feedback. Find out more and register here: https://bit.ly/483FMvj Gary Bosworth Robert Newbery Matthew Gorton Barbara Tocco Paddy Bradley MBE Jaclyn Curry
Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at Northumbria University, Newcastle Business School
First call for applicants for a new UKRI funded Centre for Doctoral Training on Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence Northumbria University’s ‘UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence' has been named as one of 12 Centres for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence as part of a major £117m funding announcement by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Applications are now open for our first cohort of fully funded four-year PhD studentships enrolling in September 2024. The centre will involve academics from across Northumbria University and will focus on the inclusion of citizens in the design and evaluation of AI – helping to ensure the rapidly advancing technology works for everyone. Application Closing Date: Monday 8th April 2024 More information available via northumbria.ac.uk/ccai