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Ben Martin: Challenges for Innovation Policy Studies

With the field of innovation studies now half a century old, the occasion has been marked by several studies looking back to identify the main advances made over its lifetime. In his academic seminar, Ben Martin (University of Sussex) looks at a list of 20 advances over the field’s history, which include a move from the notion of individual entrepreneurs to corporate innovation activities and a shift from laissez faire to government intervention. Martin then sets out 20 challenges for coming decades not to issue a prescriptive list, but rather, to prompt a debate within the innovation studies community on what are, or should be, the key challenges for to take up, and more generally on what sort of field the community aspires to become. More can be found here: http://iems.ust.hk/martin Ben Martin is Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies at SPRU, where he served as Director from 1997 to 2004. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, both at the University of Cambridge. He has carried out research for over 30 years in the field of science policy. He helped to establish techniques for evaluating scientific laboratories, research programmes and national scientific performance. He also pioneered the notion of ‘technology foresight’. More recently, he has carried out research on the benefits from government funding of basic research, the changing nature and role of the university, the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise, and the evolution of the field of science policy and innovation studies. He had also published several papers on research misconduct. Since 2004, he has been Editor of Research Policy, and he is also the 1997 winner of the de Solla Price Medal for Science Studies.