The Advisory Committee

The CRIC Advisory Committee advises the Director on all matters to do with the operation and development of the Centre and on relations between the Centre and the ESRC.

The Advisory Committee has the following distinguished members:

Professor Ron Amann (Chairman)

Professor Amman retired from the post of Director General of the new Centre for Management and Policy Studies, Professor Amann’s principal tasks were to create a resource at the heart of government for the development and dissemination of best practice in both the formulation and implementation of policy; and to ensure that the Civil Service is cultivating the right skills, culture and approaches to perform its task. In practical terms this involved the development of networks across both the public and private sectors in order to identify and absorb best practice which will find expression in new programmes of training, research and policy evaluation. The CMPS, which was founded in June 1999, is located within the Cabinet Office and incorporates the Civil Service College.

Previously, Professor Amann was Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman of the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC). Prior to that he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Birmingham, specialising in problems of innovation and science policy in centrally planned economies.

Professor John Bessant

John Bessant is Professor of Innovation Management at Cranfield University, and is linked with the Operations and Project Management Group. He graduated from Aston University with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1975 and later obtained a PhD (also from Aston) for work on innovation within the chemical industry. After a spell in industry he took up full-time research and consultancy in the field of technology and innovation management working at Aston’s Technology Policy Unit, the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University and at Brighton University where he held the Chair in Technology Management since 1987.

Prior to joining the faculty at Cranfield, John was Director of Brighton University’s Centre for Research in Innovation Management which he set up in 1987. He oversaw its development into a research institute with a staff of thirty people working on around fifty projects for public and private sponsors in the field of effective innovation management. His areas of research interest include the management of discontinuous innovation, strategies for developing high involvement innovation and enabling effective inter-firm collaboration and learning in product and process innovation. He is the author of 20 books and many articles on the topic and has lectured and consulted widely around the world. He has acted as advisor to various national governments and to international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the OECD. His most recent book – ‘Managing innovation’ (John Wiley and Sons) – was awarded the ‘best book’ prize by the European Association for Creativity and Innovation in 2001.

Dr Alan Calder CBE

Alan graduated from Aberdeen University with a BSc and a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1968 after which he joined ICI Nobel Division. He held a variety of positions within the company becoming Research Manager, Colours and Fine Chemical in 1987. Until 1996 he was General Manager, Research and Development, for Zeneca Specialities. In 1993 he was appointed Chairman of the SERC (EPSRC) Chemistry Committee and in April 1994 he became Chairman of the UK Chemical Industry Foresight Panel. His involvement with Foresight continues as a member of the new LINK Board.

Dr Phil Gamlen

Phil Gamlen is a member of ICI’s Technology Board, and a Director in the ICI Group Technology Office with particular responsibility for the Group Technology Strategy; the ICI Collaborative R & D programmes; Technology Sourcing, and Communications and PR issues as they relate to Technology. A career in ICI has spanned manufacturing, product management, R & D and technology. Research activities have been highly diverse ranging from mining to upper atmosphere chemistry and physics, and all phases in between. In the past few years he has been particularly concerned with practices and polices to enhance innovation, and with the management of intellectual capital during acquisitions and divestment.

Professor Ray Hudson

Ray is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham and an economic geographer, with particular interests in relationships between economic restructuring, labour market change and territorial development policies. He is Director of the ONS National On-Line Manpower Information System, and Chair of the International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies. He has a BA, PhD and DSc from Bristol University and Honorary DSc from Roskilde University Denmark. He is currently a Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society.

Professor Alan Hughes

Alan is Director of the ESRC Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His research interests include the financing, growth, innovative behaviour and survival of small firms; take-overs and corporate governance; manufacturing competitiveness, and competition and industrial policy. He has acted as a consultant in these and other areas to the Office of Fair Trading, the Department of Trade and Industry, the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Commission.

Dr Alistair Keddie

Alistair was Head of DTI’s Innovation Unit, until mid 2003. Prior to his current job he was Head of DTI’s Single Market Unit. Before that he was Head of the international science and technology branch in DTI’s Research and Technology Policy Division, a member of the Policy’s Planning Unit; and before moving to DIT Headquarters in 1984 was head of the Air Pollution Division at the then Warren Spring Laboratory.

Professor Franco Malerba

Professor Franco Malerba received his PhD from Yale University and has subsequently followed an academic career divided between the United States, he is Visiting Professor at Stamford University, and Italy, where he is Director of CESPRI - the research centre on innovation and internationalisation at Bocconi University. He is one of the leading authorities in the field of innovation studies and is currently editor of Industrial and Corporate Change and Advisory Editor of Research Policy. He is the current President of the International J A Shumpeter Society.

Professor Maureen McKelvey

Maureen holds the chair in Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also Vice Head of the Department of Industrial Dynamics in that University. Her work is focused on the Intersection of two fields of study, in relation to the Economics of Innovation and Innovation Management. Understanding the main issues in the field of this research is of increasing importance theoretically, and for the practice of policy makers and firm managers. Much of her research is focused around radically new innovations most of which are knowledge intensive. This involves both empirical and technological fields ranging from software development, mobile telecommunications and modern biotechnology and bioscience. She is the author of several books and many papers in this research field. In 1996 she was awarded the International J A Schumpeter prize for her book Evolutionary Innovations.

Professor Bridget Rosewell

Professor Rosewell is an economist and a founding director and executive chairman of the economic and market analysis firm Volterra Consulting. Professor Rosewell, a visiting professor at City University Business School, is chief economic advisor to the British Retail Consortium and special advisor on economic policy to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee. She joined the Board of Britannia Building Society in 1999. Bridget lives and works in London. A former member of the Chancellor's Independent Panel of Forecasters, she is frequent broadcaster and commentator.

Dr Evind Sto

Evind is Director of SIFO (Norwegian Institute for Consumer Research), an independent Governmental Research Institution established in 1939. SIFO research activity is divided into four units dealing with 1) Consumers, 2) Goods and Services, 3) Consumer Markets, 4) Consumer Policy. SIFO is involved in the coordination of two projects within the EU Fifth Framework programme, ToolSust and Trust in Food. SIFO also is coordinator for three projects under the EU Consumer Political programme.

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