Our PhD researchers are an integral part of the development of research agendas as part of their training.
Current PhD researchers and their theses are listed below, grouped within our research theme categories.
- Economics of Innovation and Industrial Policy
- Micro structural change and inclusive innovation to eradicate poverty: possibilities and alternatives from rural Mozambique – Bernardo Caldarola
Development of National Systems of Innovation in comparative perspective: The Pacific Alliance – Melina Galdos Frisancho
Barriers and the role of international partners in university-industry relations in Latin American countries – Pavel Corilloclla Terbullino
Characteristics of of Collaborative Patterns and their Implications for R&D Performance – Kyung-Ju Han
Regional diversification in developing countries – Claudia Obando Rodriguez
Bargaining dynamics and consumption motivations driving people to form sharing groups: What can be learnt from agent-based models – Francesco Pasimeni
Structural Change and Service Global Value Chains in Developing Countries – Filippo Bontadini
Risk-reward relationship in public investments to innovation: a legal-institutional perspective – Andrea Laplane
Essays on innovation and the development bank in Brazil – Marco Carreras
The construction of a research institution: trajectories of the Brazilian governmental agricultural research from the 1970s on - Arthur Moreira
Competing for the Competition Rules: The EU–US Rivalry for the WTO's Agreement on Competition Policy – Hammed Roohani
Virtual Currency establishment: sustainable digital value chains as the Information Communication Technology enablers for the digital economy – Vedad Sabljic
Understanding Patterns of Innovation within the UK Milk Production Sector – James Thomas - Energy
- Crowdfunding public private crowd partnerships (PPCPs): a new policy tool to finance energy access projects in developing countries? The case of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Irene Maffini
Uptake and use of new smart energy technologies by domestic user, does it match designer expectations, what that means for policy – Bryony Parrish
The impact of political economy on the direction of national clean electricity innovation, examined via a case study of the US and UK, particularly focusing in on ARPA-E in the US and the Energy Technologies Institute in the UK – Anna Watson
Delivering residential retrofit in the UK; the of novel business and financing models – Donal Brown
Energy transitions from resource based emerging economies: Case studies on South Africa's electricity sector (coal, gas and renewable energy) – Marie Blanche Ting
The factors influencing a firm's choice of voluntary GHG mitigation activities (UK & German firms) – Andrea Smith
Net energy availability due to changes in global energy supply systems: Implications for the economy and climate change – Claire Copeland
Policy Mixes in Sustainability Transitions: Reducing end-use energy demand of Buildings in the UK – Duncan Edmondson
Overcoming the Barriers to the Delivery of near-zero Energy Non-domestic Buildings (nZEBs) in the UK: An in-depth Analysis of the Factors, Characteristics and Dynamics of Change under a Socio-technical perspective – Sofia Kesidou
The implementation of biofuels technology in oil firms: unlocking a path dependency and steering towards new technological systems? – Nelson Mojarro Gonzalez - Innovation and Project Management
- Knowledge Management System in Saudi Arabia – Salem Alrakah
How to make the Pharmaceutical R&D more transparent to external partners: Create the TO BE model and the framework to implement it – Fabien Ibanez
The role and innovation capacity of science parks in Thailand – Jirapan Yimkaew
Skills integration in the Creative Industries – Martha Bloom
The Impact of measurement Instruments for Converging Industries – Bernardo Cantone
International technology collaboration involving entrepreneurship firms: The case of the ICT industry – Sungjoo Lee
Changing Direction of Strategic Innovation Activity and the Evolution of Corporate Venturing in an ICT firm in Korea – Youngha Chang
Innovation and knowledge co-creation for pastorlaist development – Alexander Tasker
Technology Transfer by RTOs in Developing Countries as a Way to Create Technological Capabilities: The Case of Korea during the Industrialisation Period – Jang Saeng Kim
When You Change Gear: Contrasting Technology Catch-up Shift of Korean and Japanese Heavy Electrical Industries (1970s~2000s) – Kwang Seok
Virtual Communities of Practice: the effects on learning and knowledge creation of social interaction mediated through technology – George Siantonas - Science, Politics and Decision-making
- Towards responsible futures: Governance of AI – Maciej Kuziemski
Appropriation of point of care testing and mobile health technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: what are the implications for health policy? – Vusumuzi Ncube
How research funders learn from their investments in complex multi-goal research programmes aiming for societal impact and academic excellence – Charlie Dobson
Change and continuity in the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: ensuring the Chemical Weapons Convention remains fit for purpose – Alexander Ghionis
Knowledge Accumulation from Disease Outbreak Response" Knowledge accumulation is obstructed by outbreaks – Joshua Hutton
Exclusion and Insensitivity: The production of justification for shale gas development through the UK planning system – Laurence Williams
Framings of Pastoral Development in the Horn: An Application of Q-Methodology – Yusuf Dirie
The Implementation of Health Service Innovation: A Case Study of the Medicine Use Review – Sarah Yeulet - Sustainable Development
- Energy practices and gender relations in newly electrified homes – Victoria Kasprowicz
Human Relations with Nature in Rewilding and the Anthropocene – Benedict Dempsey
The co-evolution of financial systems and sustainability transitions: Testing the necessity based on case study of how the SA government and its finance sector engaged in creating renewable energy sector – Chantal Naidoo
Understanding the Development of Urban Transformative Capacity in Bristol and Medellin – Jonas Colen Ladeia Torrens
Transformations towards sustainable and inclusive urban mobility in a megacity in India – Bipashyee Ghosh
Formal rules and networks for diffusion of technology in the context of an epidemic agricultural crisis: the case of small size producers of oil palm in Colombia – Paloma Bernal Hernandez
Resolving electricity poverty in eastern Africa: a need for a new private sector ‘investment model’ for electricity infrastructure development – Julian Gregory
Factors influencing adaptation to climate risk amongst farmers in Nepal – Lokendra Karki
Energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa – Sandra Pointel
Contested framings of 'agricultural research for development' – Ruth Segal
The effectiveness of international programmes in addressing barriers to scaling up the deployment of off-grid PV systems with energy storage – Anne-Marie Verbeken
Actor interactions and Transformation: Development of solar and wind power in China post 2000 – Kejia Yang