On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, the CPME team, along with colleagues from Niš, Skopje, and Tirana, was welcomed by Louise Kenworthy, Incubation Services Manager at Innospace – Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business Incubation Space & PrintCity (https://www.innospace.co.uk/), located at Turing House in Manchester Science Park (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/buildings/turing-house). We were introduced to the programs for accelerating innovative startups, and at the PrintCity (https://printcity.mmu.ac.uk/about/), engineers demonstrated the possibilities of adaptive prototype modeling using 3D printing technology.

In the second part of the day, we visited the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/faculties/business-law/business-school). We learned about the innovation ecosystem, research and development (R&D) funding, the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship program, the fusion of innovation and growth, and support for research and innovation through external funding from Prof. Trevor Brown, Academic Director for Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeships, Prof. Jennie Shorley, Academic Director of the Centre for Enterprise, Director of Accreditations at the Faculty of Business and Law, and Prof. Paul Dewick,  Research Director at the Faculty of Business and Law.

On Thursday, September 5, 2024, and Friday, September 6, 2024, Prof. John Bessant conducted a two-day workshop at Alliance Manchester Business School on the topics “Overview of Best Practices in Innovation Management Systems (ISO Framework)” and „Overview of Best Practices in Technology Transfer and A2B Partnering in the Innovation Ecosystem.“ The legendary Prof. Besant is one of the most cited authors in the field of innovation management with 49,155 citations. After the workshops, we were tasked with researching UK experiences in A2B collaboration and preparing proposals for adapted student internship models as intermediaries in creating academy-business collaboration programs in the Western Balkan countries, which we presented on Friday, September 13, 2024, during an online session, which was also the final activity of this study visit. In the next post, we will discuss the visit to the University of Liverpool and its innovation centers, the University of Salford, and the BBC R&D department.

The visit was conducted as part of the USE IPM project – “Enhancing Researcher Skills for Sustainable Entrepreneurship through Innovation Process Management – USE IPM,” with support from the European Union (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-03-01).

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