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Selviaridis K, Hughes A, Spring M, 2023, Facilitating public procurement of innovation in the UK defence and health sectors: Innovation intermediaries as institutional entrepreneurs, Research Policy, Vol: 52, Pages: 1-20, ISSN: 0048-7333
This paper investigates how innovation intermediaries promote institutional change to facilitate public procurement of innovation (PPI). Several of the PPI implementation challenges reported in prior research originate in the institutional architecture underpinning demand articulation, and innovation procurement and adoption processes. We conceptualise innovation intermediaries as institutional entrepreneurs who seek to create new institutions or adjust existing ones to support PPI implementation. We report the results of two case studies of intermediaries facilitating PPI in the UK defence and health sectors, respectively. We contribute to PPI intermediation literature by showing that intermediaries address prevalent institutional failures through four types of institutional entrepreneurship activities: boundary spanning; advocacy; design of change; and capacity building. We elucidate, in particular, the role of individuals within intermediaries, as agents who learn about failures and adapt their institutional work over time. In doing so, these managers go beyond the remit and goals of the organisations they represent. The findings add to our understanding of how intermediaries support demand articulation for PPI by showing that their institutional work is also aimed at designing generic methods and processes to improve what is asked for, and how. We furthermore reveal conditions influencing the effectiveness of intermediaries' efforts to realise institutional change, thereby extending research on institutional entrepreneurship in PPI settings.
Perkmann M, Salandra R, Tartari V, et al., 2021, Academic engagement: a review of the literature 2011-2019, Research Policy, Vol: 50, ISSN: 0048-7333
We provide a systematic review of the literature on academic engagement from 2011 onwards which was the cutoff year of a previous review in Research Policy. Academic engagement refers to knowledge-related interactions of academic scientists with external organizations, set apart from research, teaching and commercialization. It includes activities such as collaborative research with industry, contract research, consulting and informal ties. We consolidate what is known about the individual, organizational and institutional antecedents of academic engagement, and its consequences for research, commercialization, and society at large. Our findings suggest that individual characteristics associated with academic engagement include being scientifically productive, senior, male, locally trained, and commercially experienced. Academic engagement is also socially conditioned by peer effects and within applied disciplines. In terms of consequences, academic engagement is positively associated with academics' subsequent scientific productivity. We also propose new areas of investigation where evidence is still inconclusive, including individual life cycles effects, the role of organizational context and incentives, cross-national comparison, and the impact of academic engagement on the quality of subsequent research as well as educational, commercial and society-wide impact.
Hughes A, Lawson C, Salter A, et al., 2019, Citizens of somewhere: Examining the geography of foreign and native-born academics’ engagement with external actors, Research Policy, Vol: 48, Pages: 759-774, ISSN: 0048-7333
This paper explores the geography of academic engagement patterns of native and foreign-born academics, contrasting how patterns of intranational and international engagement with non-academic actors differ between these two groups. We suggest that foreign-born academics will engage more internationally than their native-born colleagues, whereas native-born academics will have greater levels of intranational engagement. Drawing upon a large multi-source dataset, including a major new survey of all academics working in the UK, we find support for the idea that where people are born influences how they engage with non-academic actors. We also find that these differences are attenuated by an individual’s intranational and international experience, ethnicity and language skills. We explore the implications of these findings for policy to support intranational and international academic engagement.
Spring M, Hughes A, Mason K, et al., 2017, Creating the competitive edge: a new relationship between operations management and industrial policy, Journal of Operations Management, Vol: 49-51, Pages: 6-19, ISSN: 0272-6963
Policy interventions by governments to alter the structure of economic activity have either been dismissed or ignored by operations management (OM) scholars. However, in recent years, such ‘industrial policy’ measures have gained increasing support in developed economies, particularly in relation to manufacturing. This paper argues that contemporary manufacturing in high-cost economies is rooted in technological innovation. As such, it can be enhanced by industrial policy interventions that prevent systems failures in the process of turning technological innovation into commercially viable products. In particular, we argue that this can be achieved by establishing non-firm, intermediate research organizations and by other measures to change the institutional architecture of an economy. We disagree with claims in earlier OM literature that industrial policy is all but irrelevant to manufacturing firms and to OM. Instead, we argue that OM must broaden its conceptual scope so as to encompass active engagement with non-firm network participants such as government-supported intermediate research organizations, and that, as well as learning to be effective users of industrial policy, OM practitioners and academics should engage actively in the development of industrial policy. In this way, high-value, high-productivity manufacturing can be viable in high-cost economic environments.
Harcourt GC, Cosh A, Hughes A, et al., 2016, The legacy of Ajit Singh (11 September 1940-23 June 2015), ECONOMIC AND LABOUR RELATIONS REVIEW, Vol: 27, Pages: 293-313, ISSN: 1035-3046
Haskel J, Goodridge P, Hughes A, et al., 2015, The contribution of public and private R&D to UK productivity growth, Publisher: Imperial College Business School
Haskel J, Goodridge P, Hughes A, et al., 2015, The contribution of public and private R&D to UK productivity growth, Publisher: Imperial College Business School
Mina A, Bascavusoglu-Moreau E, Hughes A, 2014, Open service innovation and the firm's search for external knowledge, RESEARCH POLICY, Vol: 43, Pages: 853-866, ISSN: 0048-7333
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Haskel J, Haskel J, Hughes A, et al., 2014, The economic significance of the UK science base: a report for the Campaign for Science and Engineering, Publisher: Imperial College Business School
Mina A, Lahr H, Hughes A, 2013, The demand and supply of external finance for innovative firms, INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE, Vol: 22, Pages: 869-901, ISSN: 0960-6491
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Perkmann M, Tartari V, McKelvey M, et al., 2013, Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university-industry relations (open access article), Research Policy, Vol: 42, Pages: 423-442, ISSN: 0048-7333
We present a systematic review of the literature on academic engagement, defined as academic scientists’ involvement in collaborative research, contract research, consulting and informal technology transfer. Our findings suggest that across all national contexts studied, academic engagement is widespread. We identify the antecedents and consequences of academic engagement, and systematically compare these with the antecedents and consequences of commercialisation, i.e. intellectual property transfer and academic entrepreneurship. Academic engagement is distinct from commercialisation in that it is closely aligned with traditional academic research, and is pursued by academics to access resources that further their research. We conclude by identifying future research needs, opportunities for methodological improvement and policy interventions.
Cosh A, Fu X, Hughes A, 2012, Organisation structure and innovation performance in different environments, SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS, Vol: 39, Pages: 301-317, ISSN: 0921-898X
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Hughes A, Kitson M, 2012, Pathways to impact and the strategic role of universities: new evidence on the breadth and depth of university knowledge exchange in the UK and the factors constraining its development, CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol: 36, Pages: 723-750, ISSN: 0309-166X
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- Citations: 114
Deiaco E, Hughes A, McKelvey M, 2012, Universities as strategic actors in the knowledge economy, CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol: 36, Pages: 525-541, ISSN: 0309-166X
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Sutherland WJ, Bellingan L, Bellingham JR, et al., 2012, A Collaboratively-Derived Science-Policy Research Agenda, PLOS ONE, Vol: 7, ISSN: 1932-6203
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Dodgson M, Hughes A, Foster J, et al., 2011, Systems thinking, market failure, and the development of innovation policy: The case of Australia, RESEARCH POLICY, Vol: 40, Pages: 1145-1156, ISSN: 0048-7333
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Hughes A, Moore B, Ulrichsen T, 2011, Evaluating innovation policies: a case study of the impact of third stream funding in the English higher education sector, SCIENCE AND INNOVATION POLICY FOR THE NEW KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, Editors: Colombo, Grilli, Piscitello, RossiLamastra, Publisher: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, Pages: 79-105
Desyllas P, Hughes A, 2010, Do high technology acquirers become more innovative?, RESEARCH POLICY, Vol: 39, Pages: 1105-1121, ISSN: 0048-7333
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Cosh A, Hughes A, 2010, 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, Vol: 35, Pages: 66-91, ISSN: 0892-9912
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- Citations: 40
Desyllas P, Hughes A, 2009, The revealed preferences of high technology acquirers: An analysis of the innovation characteristics of their targets, CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol: 33, Pages: 1089-1111, ISSN: 0309-166X
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- Citations: 21
Cosh A, Cumming D, Hughes A, 2009, Outside Enterpreneurial Capital*, ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Vol: 119, Pages: 1494-1533, ISSN: 0013-0133
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Hughes A, 2009, Hunting the Snark: Some reflections on the UK experience of support for the small business sector, INNOVATION-MANAGEMENT POLICY & PRACTICE, Vol: 11, Pages: 114-126, ISSN: 1447-9338
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- Citations: 22
Hughes A, 2008, Innovation policy as cargo cult: myth and reality in knowledge-led productivity growth, CREATING WEALTH FROM KNOWLEDGE: MEETING THE INNOVATION CHALLENGE, Editors: Bessant, Venables, Publisher: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, Pages: 80-104
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- Citations: 16
Hughes A, 2008, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy: Retrospect and Prospect, OPTIONS FOR BRITAIN II: CROSS CUTTING POLICY ISSUES - CHANGES AND CHALLENGES, Editors: Uberoi, Coutts, McLean, Halpern, Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, Pages: 133-152, ISBN: 978-1-4443-3395-4
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- Citations: 13
Cosh A, Guest P, Hughes A, 2008, UK corporate governance and takeover performance, ECONOMICS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MERGERS, Editors: Gugler, Yurtoglu, Publisher: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, Pages: 226-261
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- Citations: 18
Hughes A, Morton MSS, 2006, The transforming power of complementary assets, MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Vol: 47, Pages: 50-+, ISSN: 1532-9194
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- Citations: 35
Cosh A, Guest PM, Hughes A, 2006, Board share-ownership and takeover performance, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE & ACCOUNTING, Vol: 33, Pages: 459-510, ISSN: 0306-686X
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- Citations: 27
Hughes A, 2004, Exports and Economic Development: Early Debates and Recent Controversies, EXPORTS, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA, Publisher: PALGRAVE, Pages: 6-+
Hughes A, 2004, Empirical Studies on Exports and Development, EXPORTS, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA, Publisher: PALGRAVE, Pages: 25-+
Hughes A, Wood E, 2000, Rethinking innovation comparisons between manufacturing and services: The experience of the CBR SME surveys in the UK, Workshop on Innovation Systems in the Service Economy, Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, Pages: 105-124
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- Citations: 19
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