Andrew McMeekin - Theme Lead and Flagship PI - Demand and Innovation for Sustainable Consumption

Andrew McMeekin is theme lead of Sustainable Production and Distribution Systems for the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Principal Investigator of the SCI flagship project 'Demand and Innovation for Sustainable Consumption'. Andrew is Professor of Innovation in the Manchester Business School, leads research on innovation and sustainability in the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and is Deputy Director of the Sustainable Practices Research Group.

Andrew holds a first degree in Management and Chemical Sciences from UMIST, an MSc in Technology and Innovation Management from the Science Policy Research Unit in Sussex and a PhD from Manchester Business School on "Innovation, Demand and Environmental Sustainability".

Between 1997 and 2007, Andrew was Research Fellow and then Senior Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition. During this period, his research focused on interactions between public and private economic actors in the production of knowledge for innovation, and on the relationship between innovation and final consumption. He has held grants as Principal or Co Investigator from the ESRC, DTI, DEFRA. Andrew has coauthored one book (Public or Private Economies of Knowledge), two edited volumes and a number of articles in journals such asResearch Policy, Economy and SocietyandNature Biotechnology.

Phone: 0161 275 7375
Email: andrew.mcmeekin@mbs.ac.uk