HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
The Oxfordshire Economic Observatory (OEO) is a joint activity of Oxford Brookes University, Oxford University and Birkbeck College London, which undertakes research and consultancy on the growing high technology industry sectors.
The IAU provides key staff (John Glasson–Director and Andrew Chadwick-Research Fellow) for the OEO which, since 2002, has produced a wide range of studies, with a particular focus on high-tech Oxfordshire. The county has particular strengths in high-tech manufacturing sectors, such as bio-tech, pharmaceuticals, medical engineering, computing and motor sports (F1), and also high tech services. Most recently, OEO contributed to The Oxfordshire Innovation Engine report (SQW 2013) on further realising the potential for high–tech development in Oxfordshire.
Monographs and reports
- 2013 (with SQW),The Oxfordshire Innovation Engine:Realising the Growth Potential, University of Oxford/Science Oxford/Oxfordshire LEP
- 2007 (with SQW) Southern Oxfordshire High Technology Quadrant Study
For Southern Oxfordshire Quadrant Partnership - 2007 (with L.Downing, A.Chadwick and H.Lawton-Smith), The Economic Ecology of Small Businesses in Oxfordshire), Oxfordshire Economic Observatory/UK Federation of Small Businesses
- 2007 (with H. Lawton-Smith and A.Chadwick) Enterprising Oxford; the Oxfordshire Model for Innovation and Growth. Oxon. Economic Observatory, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University
- 2005 (with H. Lawton-Smith), High-Tech Spinoffs: Measuring Performance and Growth In Oxfordshire Oxon. Economic Observatory
- 2003 Enterprising Oxford: Vol 1 – Growth of a High-Tech Economy; Vol 2 – Anatomy of a High-Tech Economy. Oxon. Economic Observatory, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University
Chapters in books
- 2015 (with H. Lawton Smith), UK university models of technology transfer in a global economy, in S.M Breznitz and H. Etzkowitz), University Technology Transfer, Routledge, London
- 2013 (with H. Lawton Smith) ‘Technological Transfer in the Perspective of Town Dimension: the case of Oxford and Oxfordshire in the UK’, in Noronha Vaz, T, Nijkamp, P and E. van Leeuwen (eds) Towns in a Rural World. Aldershot: Ashgate
Journal articles
- 2013 (with H. Lawton Smith, S.Romeo, R.Walters and A. Chadwick), Entrepreneurial Regions: Evidence from Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire, Social Science Information
- 2008 (with A. Chadwick and H.Lawton-Smith) Employment Growth in Knowledge –Intensive Business Services in Great Britain during the 1990s-variations at the Regional and Sub-Regional levels . Local Economy
- 2006 (with A. Chadwick and H. Lawton Smith) ‘Defining, Explaining and Managing High-Tech Growth: the Case of Oxfordshire’ European Planning Studies
- 2005 (with H. Lawton Smith and A. Chadwick) ‘The Geography of Talent: Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development in Oxfordshire’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development