LocoMotive

Hamburg 5-6 June 2007

Helen Lawton Smith

Dr Helen Lawton Smith is Reader in Management, School of Management and Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. She is a Distinguished Research Associate at the Department of Geography, Oxford University, a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University and an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. She is the founder, Managing Director and Director of Research of the Oxfordshire Economic Observatory (OEO), Oxford University, http://oeo.geog.ox.ac.uk. She has extensive experience in the field of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development. She has undertaken a number of studies of entrepreneurship in high-tech economies, inter-firm collaboration for innovation, university and industry linkages. She is the author over 70 journal articles and book chapters and seven books. Her most recent books are Universities, Innovation and the Economy (Routledge 2006) and Economic Geography:Past, Present and Future (Co-edited with Sharmistha Bagchi Sen (Routledge 2006).