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spacer Dr Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau - Research Fellow

Elif is a UK~IRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. Her current research in UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC) investigates innovation and performance in knowledge-intensive business services, and contributes to the understanding of the linkages between different sectors and sector specific policy design. Her research interests relate to three inter-related areas. One strand focuses on how firms develop their innovation strategies and methods in order to maintain or increase their competitiveness, focusing particularly on service innovation, servitization and open innovation strategies. The second relates to internal and external sources of innovation capabilities in small and medium-sized enterprises, especially in emerging countries. She is also interested in intellectual property rights and the analysis of patents and design rights. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Dr. Bascavusoglu-Moreau was a Research Associate in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School. She holds a PhD in international economics from University of Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne.


spacer Mrs Anna Bullock - Survey and Database Manager

Anna studied at Uppsala University Sweden and before joining the CBR worked on epidemiological and other medical surveys for the Medical Research Council in London and Cambridge and on large social science surveys at Birkbeck College, London University. She became involved with economic and business data analysis whilst at working at the University of Leeds.


spacer Mr David Connell - Senior Research Fellow

David Connell has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge since 2006. He was previously founding Chief Executive of TTP Ventures, a Cambridge-based venture capital fund specializing in early stage science and technology-based ventures with funding from Boeing, Siemens and financial institutions. From 1989 to 1997, Connell was Head of TTP Groups Strategy Division, providing consulting advice on technology exploitation, innovation and business development strategy to a wide range of clients including Shell, BP, Nortel, ICI, Barclays Bank and Cambridge University. Today, he combines directorships with TTP Capital Partners and various technology-based companies with his academic research position.


spacer Dr Andy Cosh - Assistant Director

Andy Cosh is Assistant Director of the CBR with responsibility for research in enterprise and innovation. He obtained his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Cambridge and was one of the founder members of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. For over twenty years he combined his academic role with the post of Senior Bursar at Queens' College, Cambridge. His most prominent research interests fall broadly into two categories. The first of these concerns corporate governance, executive remuneration and mergers and acquisitions. His second major research interest relates to research into innovation, training and finance in small and medium-sized enterprises. . He has also acted as a business consultant to several firms and as a research consultant for the European Commission, Eurostat, British Bankers Association, DTI, DfEE and DfES.


spacer Professor Simon Deakin - Assistant Director

Simon Deakin is Assistant Director of the CBR with responsibility for research in corporate governance. B.A. and Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge; Bigelow Fellow, University of Chicago Law School, 1986-87; Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary College, London, 1987-90; Lecturer, then Reader, in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge between 1990 and 2001; Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, 2001-6; Acting Director, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Jan 2005-Dec 2006; Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, and Senior Research Associate, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, 2006 onwards. Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University, 2003, 2008; Visiting Professor of Management and Omron Fellow, Doshisha University, Kyoto, 2004-onwards; Visiting Fellow, Nantes (1993, 1995), Melbourne (1998), European University Institute, Florence (2004). Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 2005. ILO Social Policy Lecturer, Central European University, Budapest, 2001; Tanner Lecturer, University of Oxford, 2008. Present research projects include work on law, finance and development; reflexive governance in the public interest; gender equality and corporate social responsibility; pension fund activism; and capabilities and labour markets in Europe.


spacer Ms Irmi Hahne - PA to Professor Alan Hughes

Irmi has been with the CBR since November 2004. She is Professor Hughes's PA and also responsible for the CBR website. Her contact details are: cbrpa@cbr.cam.ac.uk.




spacer Mrs Liz Hewitt - Departmental Administrator of the CBR

Liz joined the CBR in September 2012. She has worked as a senior administrator in similar roles at the University of Cambridge for the past nine years and prior to that was a Departmental Administrator at the University of Exeter. Her contact details are: l.hewitt@cbr.cam.ac.uk.



spacer Professor Alan Hughes - Director

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.


spacer Mr Michael Kitson - Assistant Director

Michael Kitson is Assistant Director at the Centre for Business Research and Director of the Management Studies Tripos, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics and Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics. He has been an expert witness for the House of Lords enquiry into globalisation. Previously he was a Research Officer at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge and a College Teaching Officer at St Catharine's College Cambridge. His research interests are macroeconomic policy and performance; international trade; industrial economics; regional economics; corporate performance.


spacer Dr Henry Lahr - Research Fellow Henry is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. He is currently working on the research project FINNOV - Finance, Innovation and Growth within the European Union-funded FINNOV project, which is aimed at understanding the relationship between changing financial markets, innovation dynamics, and economic performance. Henry's research focuses on financial decisions by firms, financial constraints and the impact of financing decisions on innovative activity and venture capital fund pricing. He has previously worked on several projects concerned with the consequences of private equity financing in small and large companies, for example, on collaborative research reports for the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the German State Media Authorities.


spacer Mrs Philippa Millerchip - Events Co-ordinator, UK~IRC

Philippa is events co-ordinator for the UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC). She has been working here since April 2009. Her contact details are: philippa.millerchip@ukirc.ac.uk.




spacer Ms Isobel Milner - Assistant Database Manager

Isobel joined the CBR in May 2003 as Assistant Database Manager, supporting the Survey and Database Manager on a variety of projects including the CBR's biennial UK survey of small and medium-sized enterprises . Previously she has worked for two market research companies, in data processing and project management for both Consumer and Business to Business research. She has also worked within technical support for a market research software company, supporting various data collection and analysis products.


spacer Dr Andrea Mina - Senior Research Fellow

Laurea, Summa cum Laude (University of Turin), MSc (University of Sussex), PhD (University of Manchester), PhD (University of Turin). Andrea Mina is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. He is also Research Associate of the Business Economics and Management Division of the Judge Business School (Cambridge) and Associate and Co-investigator of the newly established UK Innovation Research Centre @ Cambridge University and Imperial College London. Andrea actively contributes to the teaching of Business Economics (MSc in Management, Judge Business School) and of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Cambridge (MPhil in Entrepreneurial Science and Innovation Policy).


spacer Dr Jocelyn Probert - Senior Research Fellow

Jocelyn is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Business Research. Her work in recent years has focused on the financing of innovative technology firms, reflected in the publication in February 2010 of a report (with David Connell) arguing for greater recognition of the role that customer-funded R&D contracts can play in the development and growth of innovative start-up businesses. (The report, Exploding the Myths of UK Innovation Policy: How 'Soft Companies' and R&D Contracts for Customers Drive the Growth of the Hi-Tech Economy, can be downloaded from the Publications Special Report section of the website.) She is currently investigating corporate venturing units and the assets that they bring to bear in the commercialisation of innovation, as part of the European Commission 7th Framework Programme on Finance, Innovation and Growth.


spacer Miss Rachel Wagstaff - Secretary to Professor Simon Deakin and Receptionist

Rachel has worked at the CBR since 2000. She is Professor Simon Deakin's secretary and also responsible for the running of the General Office. She is also the CBR Working Paper Series secretary. Her contact details are: r.wagstaff@cbr.cam.ac.uk.




spacer Dr Joanne Jin Zhang - Research Fellow

Joanne is a UK~IRC Research Fellow at Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge Judge Business School; and a visiting fellow in Strategy at Cass Business School, City University of London. Her current research interests fall into two areas. One area focuses on understanding a firm's strategy of searching for and managing outside information and knowledge to accelerate innovation and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The other focuses on the dynamic process of building successful high growth firms. She is currently working on a 3 year research project New Modes of Innovation: Managerial and Strategic Business Practices and Open Innovation (UK~IRC supported), exploring the nature and impact of "open innovation" strategy in the UK. And she has previously worked on a number of large scale research projects, including "Financial and Organisational Innovation in the UK High-Technology firms (EPSRC supported), "The Evolution of Business Knowledge" (ESRC supported), "Business models in the global fashion industry" (LDA supported).


spacer Mr Louis Wenham - Accounts

Louis Wenham works Monday afternoons and all day Tuesday at the CBR. His contact details are: ljw24@cam.ac.uk.





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