Dr Ronnie Ramlogan

Ronnie obtained an MSc (Economics) from the University of the West Indies in 1985 and his PhD (Economics) from the University of Manchester in 1995. Prior to joining CRIC he was a tutor at the School of Economic Studies at Manchester and he also consulted with the private sector on IT related projects and business process re-engineering. Ronnie has various research interests including industrialisation, economic growth and development, steel sector economics, complex adaptive systems, economics of competition and the process of innovation.

Ronnie has been working (with Professor Stan Metcalfe) on the ESRC Nexsus Project that is concerned with the use and development of complex systems thinking and approaches to increase the understanding of sustainability in socio-economic systems.

The Manchester project is entitled: Evolutionary and Complex Systems Approach to Innovation

The focus is on the development of complex adaptive systems approaches to the study of Growth, Innovation and Competition

The appraisal of the complex systems concepts in relation to processes of economic and social change
The development of complex adaptive systems perspectives on innovation policy
Locating the ideas developed to an analysis of medical innovations and innovation systems

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PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD topics that relate to my research interests, especially:

Innovation and the emergence of new sectors
The evolution medical technologies and health innovation systems
Economic perspectives on the knowledge economy
Studies of economic growth and productivity particularly through the use of microdata
Economic development and innovation
Innovation and science and technology in developing countries

Email: Ronnie.Ramlogan@manchester.ac.uk

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