Formerly Research Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, having also previously been a Visiting Professor, Stanford University, and Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has a first degree in Economics from Warwick, a Masters degree from LSE and a Ph.D. from Cambridge. His research interests encompass the analysis and measurement of the determinants and effects of technological change in current and historical perspectives with a particular emphasis on the factors affecting the speed of diffusion of new technology, and the role of government policy in the technical change process. He has published widely in this field and is noted particularly for a number of authored, co-authored or edited books upon the economics of innovation and technological change. He has been an adviser to governments, international governmental organisations and private sector companies on innovation, productivity and performance. He is a former member of the Competition Appeals Tribunal.
