Richard Jones

Associate Fellow of SPERI, Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield

The Life Sciences should not have an Industrial Strategy

 Richard Jones - 20 September 2017

It’s time to open up a new debate about the potential gains offered by this longstanding and core concept in the study of the political economy of development

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Towards a coherent industrial strategy for the UK

Richard Jones - 19 July 2017

The new report by Industrial Strategy Commission sets out positive principles that can be the foundations for a new UK industrial strategy

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Innovation, research and the UK’s productivity crisis

Richard Jones - 23 September 2015

Continuing on our current path of stagnating productivity and stagnating innovation isn’t inevitable: it’s a political choice

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Rebuilding the UK’s innovation economy

Richard Jones - 11 November 2014

Three steps could be taken immediately by the present or a future UK government

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The failures of supply-side innovation policy

Richard Jones - 10 May 2013

Longstanding deficiencies in Britain’s innovation policy are hampering our efforts to return to growth

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