Economic Geography

Ray Hudson
is Professor of Geography and Director of the inter-disciplinary
Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University. He is a member of the
Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and a past-Vice President and
Chair of the Research Division of the Royal Geographical Society. His main
research interests focus on geographies of economies and territorial development
strategies. Current research includes projects on the labour market experiences
of former coal miners and steel workers in the UK and Canada, ethnographies of
social economies and the production and management of wastes. He holds the
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degrees of BA, PhD and DSc from Bristol University and an honorary DSc from
Roskilde University. In 2005 he was awarded the Victoria Medal by the Royal
Geographical Society. 
Martin Kenney
is a professor at the University of California, Davis. His research
interests include the changing economic geography of global capitalism and 
he has done research in North America, China, and India. He is currently work-
ing on the history and globalization of the venture capital industry and the
phenomenon of services offshoring. With co-authors he has published in the
American Sociological Review, Economic Geography, Industrial and Corporate
Change, Regional Studies, and Research Policy. His most recent edited book
Locating Global Advantage is published by Stanford University Press where he
edits a book series on technology, innovation and the global economy. He has
been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, Copenhagen Business School,
Hitotsubashi University, Kobe University, Osaka City University, and Tokyo
University.
Helen Lawton Smith
is Reader in Management at the School of Management
and Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. She is a
Distinguished Research Associate at the Department of Geography, Oxford
University. She is the founder and Director of Research of the Oxfordshire
Economic Observatory, Oxford University. Her research interests are based on
geographies of innovation and include entrepreneurship, technology transfer 
and scientific labour markets. Recent publications include Technology Transfer and
Industrial Change in Europe (Palgrave, 2000) and Universities, Innovation and
the Economy (Routledge, 2006).