Events Archive

Join the Masood Enterprise Centre for the first StartUp Spotlight event of 2020, where you'll hear from Vlad Mukhachev who created his Manchester-based company, Mindful Store, whilst in his final year at University.

The increased economic and business significance of digital platforms has attracted an outpouring of studies exploring their power dynamics and general impact. And yet, to date, this research has overlooked the power imbalance that entrepreneurs experience as members of the platform ecosystem, and provided little guidance on how these far more numerous firms should compete.

Sacha Sadan is Director of Corporate Governance and on the Board at LGIM (Legal & General Investment Management) one of the largest asset managers in Europe and he will be in conversation with Professor Chris Humphrey and Professor Marie Dutordoir.

Innovation – why does this matter? This half day course explores the key challenges of managing innovation strategically and effectively, backed up with the latest research, practitioner examples and cases.

We further this research agenda by examining the response of the BBC – the UK's largest public broadcaster, by relying on primary and secondary data collected in 2015-2019. Our findings reveal how hybridity acts as a tightrope along which BBC manages digitalisation, and hybridity offers both constraints and opportunities for innovation.