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Alan Hughes - Director of the CBR
Growth, innovation and financial characteristics of small and medium sized
enterprises; analysis of the relationship between corporate takeovers, corporate
governance, executive pay and business performance; training and business performance;
measurement and evaluation of industrial and business support policy; the relationship
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Professor Alan Hughes is Director of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) and Margaret
Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School, and a Fellow
of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He was from 2000 - 2003 Director of
the National Competitiveness Network of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a joint venture
between MIT and the University of Cambridge. Professor Hughes has held visiting Professorships
in the USA, France and Australia. His research interests, on which he has had published
extensively, are concerned with industrial and technology policy; the measurement of
innovation; growth, innovation and financial and acquisition characteristics of small and
medium sized enterprises; analysis of the relationship between corporate takeovers,
corporate governance, executive pay and business performance; training and business
performance; measurement and evaluation of industrial and business support policy; the
relationship between law and economics in the analysis of corporate organisation and
performance. In the past 10 years he has published over 200 books, articles and chapters
in books on these topics. His most recent work on innovation (carried out with Andy Cosh
and Richard Lester) has been concerned with benchmarking university industry innovation
activities in the UK and the US.
Professor Hughes has been invited to provide policy advice and consultancy by amongst
others HM Treasury, HM Inland Revenue, the DTI, DfES, the Bank of England, Eurostat,
the International Labour Organisation, the National Consumer Council, and the UN World
Institute for Development Economic Research. Specific examples include: Evaluation of
the impact of training on firm performance (DfES), Evaluation of the SMART scheme (DTI),
Analysis of innovation activities in small firms (EU), Evaluation of the EIS and VCT
Schemes (HM Inland Revenue), Analysis of Universities Spin-out Policy (Dutch Ministry
of Economic Affairs), Evaluation of the Small Business Initiative (British Bankers
Association), Analysis of Effect of Mutuality on Building Society Structure (Norwich
and Peterborough Building Society and the Building Society Association), Analysis of
Legal Reform relating to Directors Duties, (Institute of Directors and Law Commission),
Background analysis for the Cruickshank report on Small Business Finance (HM Treasury).
In 2004 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to membership of the Council for Science
and Technology, the UK's senior advisory body in this area. Most recently he has been invited by Senator
Kim Carr, Australian Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, to participate as expert adviser in .
CBR
Working Papers |
Other Publications
Hughes, A. (with Cosh, A., Bullock, A. and Milner, I.) (2009), SME finance and innovation in the current economic crisis, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
Hughes, A. (2009), Hunting the Snark: Some reflections on the UK experience of support for the small business sector, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice (ISSN 1447-9338), Volume 11, Issue 1.
Hughes, A. (2009), 'Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy: Retrospect and Prospect', Political Quarterly, (forthcoming).
Hughes, A. (2009), 'Never mind the quality feel the width: University - industry links and government financial support for innovation in small high-technology businesses in the UK and the USA', Journal of Technology Transfer Special Edition, Springer, March.
Hughes, A. (with PACEC) (2009), Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Role of HEFCE/OSI Third Stream Funding: Culture Change and Embedding Capacity in the Higher Education Sector Toward Greater Economic Impact, A report to HEFCE by PACEC and the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
Hughes, A. (with M. Abreu, V. Grinevich, M. Kitson and P. Ternouth), (2008), Universities, Business and Knowledge Exchange, Council for Industries and Higher Education and Centre for Business Research, London and Cambridge.
Hughes, A. (with A. Cosh and P. Guest) (2008), 'UK corporate governance and takeover performance', in Gugler, K. and Yurtoglu, B.B. (eds) The Economics of Corporate Governance and Mergers, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
Hughes, A. (with A. Cosh, A. Bullock and I. Milner) (2008), Financing UK Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: The 2007 Survey, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
Hughes, A. (with P. Desyllas) (2008), ', Journal of High Technology Management Research, vol. Forthcoming.
Hughes, A. (2008), ‘Innovation policy as cargo cult: Myth and reality in knowledge-led productivity growth’, in Bessant, J. and Venables, T. (eds), Creating Wealth from Knowledge. Meeting the innovation challenge, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Hughes, A. (with PACEC) (2008), Competitiveness and Productivity of the UK Design Engineering Sector, DBERR, February.
Hughes, A. (with Grinevich, V.) (2007) The Contribution of Services and other Sectors to Australian Productivity Growth 1980-2004, Australian Business Foundation, Sydney, November.
Hughes, A. (2007), 'Hunting the elusive Snark of innovation Some reflections of the UK experience with small business support policy', Proceedings of the Innovation Leadership Group Forum on Innovation and SMEs, September.
Cosh, A. and Hughes, A. (eds.) (2007), British Enterprise: thriving or surviving?, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
Hughes, A. (2007) 'University-Industry Links and U.K. Science and Innovation Policy' in Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima (eds) How Universities Promote Economic Growth World Bank, Washington, D.C. 4 January.
Hughes, A. and Scott Morton, M.S. (2006), , MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 47, no. 4, Summer, pp. 50-58.
Cosh, A.D., Hughes, A. and Lester, R.K. (2006), , Cambridge MIT Institute, Centre for Business Research and Industrial
Performance Centre.
Fu, Xiaolan, Cosh, A.D., Hughes, A., de Hoyos, R., Eisingerich, A. (2006), ', UK Trade&Investment, Centre for Business
Research, March.
Cosh, A., Guest, P.M. and Hughes, A. (2006), 'Board Shareownership and Takeover P
erformance.' Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Vol. 33, Nos 3+4,
April/May, pp459-510.
Hughes, A. and Scott Morton, Michael S. (2006), 'ICT and Productivity Growth -
The Paradox Resolved', .
Cosh, A., Fu, X. and Hughes, A. (2005), 'Management Characteristics, Collaboration
and Innovative Efficiency: Evidence from UK Survey Data', .
Dessyllas, P. and Hughes, A. (2005) 'The revealed preferences of high technology
acquirers: an analysis of the
characteristics of their targets', Centre for Business Research .
Dessyllas, P. and Hughes, A. (2005) 'R&D and Patenting Activity and the Propensity
to Acquire in High
Technology Industries', Centre for Business Research .
Cosh, A., Guest, P. M. and Hughes, A. (2005) , Centre for Business Research.
Conn, R. L., Cosh, A., Guest, P. M. and Hughes, A.. (2005) 'The Impact on UK
Acquirers of
Domestic, Cross Border, Public and Private Acquisitions', Journal of Business Finance
and Accounting,
Vol. 32, Nos 5+6, June/July 2005.
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