Madeline Smith
Head of Strategy
Design-Institute of Design Innovation
Research Interests
Innovation, Strategy, Evaluation, Clusters
Research Profile
Madeline specialises in strategy and evaluation for clusters, innovation, and triple-helix collaborations. Madeline has a strong interest in innovation, the role that collaboration can play, and how evaluation needs to evolve to capture the wider value of collaborative working and behavioural change. She has developed new approaches to evaluation on collaborative networks now being implemented by policy makers across Europe.
At GSA she leads the research and enterprise strategy for the Innovation School, as well as the development and delivery of a portfolio of programmes using design to build the innovative capacity of businesses, public sector organisations and communities.
She is a Co-I for the UKRI NICER programme Circular Economy Hub, leading on evaluation and impact, and sits on themore...
Madeline specialises in strategy and evaluation for clusters, innovation, and triple-helix collaborations. Madeline has a strong interest in innovation, the role that collaboration can play, and how evaluation needs to evolve to capture the wider value of collaborative working and behavioural change. She has developed new approaches to evaluation on collaborative networks now being implemented by policy makers across Europe.
At GSA she leads the research and enterprise strategy for the Innovation School, as well as the development and delivery of a portfolio of programmes using design to build the innovative capacity of businesses, public sector organisations and communities.
She is a Co-I for the UKRI NICER programme Circular Economy Hub, leading on evaluation and impact, and sits on the board of a number of triple helix collaborations including the Built Environment Sustainable Transformation (BE-ST) and the Digital Health and Care Institute (DHI)
Previous programmes of work include Leapfrog a £1.2 million, 3-year Arts & Humanities Research Council funded project, investigating the use of co-design methods to engage communities in public-sector decision making where Madeline was Co-I leading embedded evaluation, and a international partnership with University of British Columbia and Kedge Business school, Bordeaux working to build collaboration in the BC Wine Cluster.
Madeline’s current role is Head of Strategy in the Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art. She also runs a small consultancy specialising in innovation and industry cluster development and holds a Non-Executive position with the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Qualifications
M Eng. (Hons) Chemical Engineering, University of Nottingham
MSc Enterprise, Napier University
