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Professor Alan Hughes, Director, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, UK

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Professor Alan Hughes is Director of the Centre for Business Research and Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Professor Hughes has provided policy advice and consultancy to influential groups including the UN World Institute for Development Economics Research, the Bank of England, HM Treasury, HM Inland Revenue, Eurostat and the International Labour Organisation.

In the past 10 years Professor Hughes has published over 200 books, articles and chapters in books on these topics.  His research interests include:
- measurement and evaluation of science, industrial and business support policy;
- innovation and financial characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises;
- analysis of the relationship between corporate takeover, corporate governance, executive pay and business performance; and
- the relationship between law and economics in the analysis of corporate organisation and performance.

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  • Reshaping Innovation Policy Registration Form (Presentation)
    Wed Apr 02 2008
  • The Contribution of Services and Other Sectors to Australian Productivity Growth 1980-2004 (Research)
    Nov 2007

    This extensive study of 49 sectors in the Australian economy identified two growth periods - a low growth period from 1980 to 1992, then a high growth period from 1992 to 2004.  The acceleration in labour productivity growth in the high growth period can be attributed to the performance of just three service sectors - financial intermediation, wholesale trade and a miscellaneous group encompassing transport, machinery and equipment hire, hotels and catering, R&D, legal, technical and advertising. 

    The productivity dividends came from business transformation  such as enhancing the use of enabling technologies, building management capabilities and capitalising on regulatory reforms, rather than as a result of greater capital investment replacing labour.  These findings, and the constraints to future growth identified by the authors, open the way for consideration of actions to initiate the next generation of productivity surges from Australia.