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Two members of the Whitaker Institute received Fulbright Awards this year: Dr. Emer Mulligan (Performance Management research cluster) and Ms. Alena Yuryna Connolly (Work, Society and Governance research cluster).   Since 1957, the Fulbright Awards are given annually by the Irish and U.S. governments and provide Irish students, scholars, and professionals with the opportunity to study,… | Read on »

Professor Wim VanHaverbeke delivered the InterTrade Ireland Innovation Lecture at NUI Galway last night and was very well received by his audience.  Professor VanHaverbeke’s focused on the most common management problems firms with a strong reputation in closed innovation experience when they embark on open innovation.

A new handbook edited by Professor Tony Dundon of the Work, Society & Governance research cluster, and colleagues Adrian Wilkinson (Griffith University, Australia), Jimmy Donaghey (University of Warwick, UK), and Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research, US) examines the theory and history of employee voice and what voice means to… | Read on »

The latest Research Briefing to be produced by the InterTradeIreland All-Island Innovation Programme Community of Researchers was co-authored by Dr Niamh O Riordan.  The paper argues that knowledge is a key driver of business performance and competitive advantage and investigates how next-generation digital technologies can be used to support organisational knowledge creation and innovation directly. The… | Read on »

Congratulations to Professor Breda Sweeney, Dr Emer Curtis, Dr Geraldine Robbins and Dr Christine Domegan of the JE Cairnes School of Business and Economics and the Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway who were all successful in winning funding from the Irish Research Council under the ’New Foundations’ scheme. The ’New Foundations’ scheme supports researchers who… | Read on »

Dr James Cunningham, Director of the Whitaker Institute, is quoted in a recent Irish Times article on Technology Transfer Offices and the challenges they face around priorities, timelines and intellectual property. Dr Cunningham, co-author of Effective Technology Transfer Offices: A Practitioner Framework (Springer, New York, 2014), says that a large number of challenges remain for… | Read on »

The work of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster on Collective Intelligence and Wellbeing was published recently as part of a major Government Report on Citizen Engagement with Local Government.  The report of the working group on citizen engagement with local government recommends that a People’s Participation Network (PPN) be established in every Local Authority area… | Read on »

Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley, a member of the Gender and Public Policy research cluster has recently published an article examining the issue of financial provision on the breakdown of marriage and other relationships, with particular reference to constitutional property rights, protection of the family and equality considerations. The article can be read in the Dublin University… | Read on »

Professor Kevin Leyden was a keynote speaker at Dream to Dare: Gamechanging Communities in Indianapolis, in the US in December 2013.  In his address, he spoke about social capital and the built environment.  Researchers agree that social networks and community involvement have positive consequences, including longer lifespans and improved physical and mental health. In this… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute’s Natasha Evers and James Cunningham along with Thomas Hoholm from the BI School of Management,Oslo have written a text that integrates theory and practice in the area of Technology Entrepreneurship.  This book will provide students from engineering, technology and science based backgrounds with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to transform innovative… | Read on »