Biography
Marcela Miozzo is Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation. She explores the relationship between business organisation and innovation at the national and sectoral level through comparative analysis. 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). 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) and External Examiner for the MSc Management, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College (2005-2009).
Miozzo has published widely on organisational forms of service firms, outsourcing and internationalisation of services and innovation; organisations and innovation in construction; economic development and innovation in Latin America; and multinationals, high-tech acquisitions and innovation. Her research has been published in journals such as Research Policy, Organisation Studies, Long Range Planning. She is currently researching 1) intellectual property protection in services firms; 2) science-based firms, knowledge flows and clusters.
Education
PhD, University of Massachussetts (Fulbright grant)
MA, MERIT, The Netherlands
BA, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Selected projects
1. Service firms: capabilities, strategy and structure, outsourcing, internationalisation, operation in developed and less developed countries
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. Science-based firms: mergers and acquisitions and effects on innovation and local science and technology system, institutional effects on firm formation
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
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Teaching and supervision
Current courses
BMAN 20300 Innovation and Technology Management second year UG, two semesters
BMAN 31360 International Competitiveness and Innovation third year UG, two semesters (best performance prize sponsored by Deloitte)
BMAN 72742 Industrial Leadership and Innovation MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, one semester
She also lectures in Fundamentals of International Business, MSc International Business and in Service Management, MBA
Supervision of five MSc dissertations and one undergraduate dissertation every year
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