Prof Alan Hughes

Foretitle(s): Prof
Surname: HUGHES
Style: Prof Alan Hughes
Recreations: photography, walking, golf, gardening, watching football and rugby

Career: sr economic asst NEDO 1971-73, fell Sidney Sussex Coll Cambridge 1973-; Univ of Cambridge: univ asst lectr then lectr in economics 1973-94, chm Faculty Bd of Economics and Politics 1983-88, dir ESRC Small Business Research Centre Dept of Applied Economics 1989-93, dir Centre for Business Research 1994-, Margaret Thatcher prof of enterprise studies Judge Business Sch 1999-, dir of research Judge Business Sch 2001-04, dir Nat Competitiveness Network Prog Cambridge-MIT Inst 2002-03; visiting prof: Coll of Business Florida State Univ 1983, Univ of Social Sciences Toulouse 1993-95 and 1998, Doshisha Univ Kyoto 2005, Univ of Queensland Business Sch Brisbane 2006; memb: Cmmn on Public Policy and Br Business 1995-96, Advsy Bd Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition 1997-, Expert Panel on Educn, Learning and Lifelong Skills DfES 2000-05, Cncl for Science and Technol 2004-; sometime advsr to UK and Dutch Govts on business support policies and and German Govt on science educn

Books and Publications: incl: Finance and the Small Firm (jtly, 1994), The Changing State of British Enterprise: Growth Innovation and Competitive Advantage in SMEs 1986-95 (jt ed, 1996), Enterprise and Community: New Directions in Corporate Governance (jt ed, 1997), Enterprise Challenged: Policy and Performance in the British SME Sector 1999-2002 (jt ed, 2003), UK Plc: Just How Innovative Are We? (jtly, 2006), British Enterprise: Thriving or surviving? SME growth, innovation and public policy 2001-2004 (jt ed, 2007); author of 200 other pubns