Curriculum Vitae

Name: METCALFE

Forenames: JOHN STANLEY

Date of Birth: 20th March 1946

Marital Status: Married, 2 children

• 1957 - 64 Liverpool Collegiate High School

• 1964 - 67 Manchester University, Department of Economics. Graduated June 1967, B.A.(Econ.) First Class Honours. Cobden Prize Winner.
• 1967 - 68 anchester University, Department of Liberal Studies in Science. Graduated in June 1968, M.Sc. Thesis entitled Diffusion of Innovation in the Lancashire Textile Industry".

• C.B.E. Queen's Birthday Honours List, July 1993 (for services to science).

• President Manchester Statistical Society 1991-93.
• President-elect, International Joseph J. Schumpeter Society 1996-1998.

Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy and Cobden Lecturer, School of Economic Studies; Executive Director, the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition; and Director, Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology at the University of Manchester.

• The Schumpeter Lectures, University of Graz, October 1995.

• The Honeywell/Sweatt Lecture, University of Minnesota, April 1996.

a) Head of Department of Economics September 1986 - August 1989

b) Dean of Faculty September 1992 - August 1995

c) Member of Court

d) University Finance Committee 1977- onwards

• Member of the Advisory Board of Applied Research and Development (ACARD) within the UK Cabinet Office 1983-1987.

• Member of the Advisory Council on Science and Technology (ACOST) in the UK Cabinet Office 1987-1992.
• Member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission 1991-1997.

• Member of the editorial advisory boards of the following academic journals:

• Manchester School
• International Journal of Technology Management
• Information Economics and Policy
• Structural Change and Economic Development
• Journal of Evolutionary Economics
• British Journal of Management
• Metroeconomica
• Industrial and Corporate Change
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Joseph Schumpeter Society, Kyoto Conference 1992. Member of Managing Board 1992 to date. President-elect 1996-1998.

My current research activity is principally focussed around three themes and their inter-relationship, namely: the development of evolutionary economics at micro and macroeconomic levels; the capabilities view of the firm and its relationship to the accumulation of scientific, technological and managerial knowledge; and, the development of science and technology policy and managerial strategy. In addition I maintain an active interest in the development of classical approaches to economic theory, in relation to economic and technological history and in relation to the development of the world economy.

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