Mercedes Bleda

Mercedes Bleda is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Innovation and Strategy at AMBS. She has a first degree in economics (University of Murcia, Spain), an MPhil in dynamic economics (Dept. of Quantitative Methods, University of Murcia, Spain), and a PhD in Innovation Studies from CRIC (ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition Centre) at the University of Manchester in the UK. Before completing her PhD in the UK, Mercedes worked in the department of quantitative economics at the University of Murcia in Spain where she gained valuable experience as a lecturer in mathematical economics, and as a researcher in the area of complex dynamical systems. Afterwards she joined the Centre for Research on Organisations, Management and Technical Change (CROMTEC) where she was involved on research projects funded by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and the Science in Society Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Mercedes is currently also a member of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research doing research on a variety of topics with a focus on innovation and environmental policy issues.  

Her research focuses on cognition and emotion in organizations, particularly applied to strategic behavior and decision making. She also applies evolutionary and complexity approaches to understand processes of change and adaptation both in business organizations and markets. She has been a researcher in several projects in these areas for the ERSC and the EPSRC, the European Commission, the OCDE, and other institutions at the national and and local levels, both in the UK and Spain.