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Position

Reader in Innovation Studies

Affiliation

Dr Elizabeth Garnsey

Current position

• Emeritus Reader in Innovation Studies
• Fellow of Clare Hall
• Jointly appointed to the Judge Business School and the University of Cambridge Engineering Department

Background

BA (Univ. of Oxford) PhD (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

Professional Experience

Working closely with high tech companies, small and large, Dr Garnsey has gained experience on the university-industry interface, on support for new business in incubation centres and science parks and on acquisition by and joint ventures with larger corporations. Recently she has advised the Lighter Evenings Committee of the House of Lords (2007), and worked on the Shell Springboard Program for young environmental companies. She has been advisor to the Bank of England, the Treasury and the Confederation of British Industry on high tech enterprise and an Expert Witness to Parliamentary committees. Dr Garnsey is a founder member of the Greater Cambridge Partnership and a member of the Cambridge Network. She was a founder and academic organiser of the first Cambridge Enterprise Conferences. She worked at the St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge, 2000-2002. She is a member of the Complexity Society.

Previous Appointments

Dr Garnsey has previously worked at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge. Prior to the creation of the Judge Institute of Management, Dr Garnsey already held a lectureship in Management Studies at the Engineering Department.

Research Interests

• Environmental policy and practice
• Technology transfer
• Technology enterprise, particularly in clean tech, biopharm and new materials
• Business development, complexity studies

Elizabeth Garnsey is a member of the Centre for Technology Management at the Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University and is on the Faculty of the Judge Business School, Cambridge University.

Selected Publications

For a more complete list of Dr Garnsey's publications click here

NOTE: Dr Garnsey's working papers are available for free download from the CTM working papers page. ( http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/ctm/publications/w_papers/)

• Yu-Foong Chong, Elizabeth Garnsey, Simon Hill and Frederic Desobry, October 2009, Daylight Saving, Electricity Demand and Emissions; Exploratory Studies from Great Britain [Download paper 568k - abstract revised 27/10/2009]
• Garnsey E., Ferriani S., Lorenzoni G., 2008, Speciation through entrepreneurial spin-off: The Acorn-ARM story, Research Policy  37 210- 224
• Garnsey E., Leong Y., 2008, Combining Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theory to Explain the Genesis of Bio-networks, Industry and Innovation Vol 15 no. 6: 669-686
• Lubik S, Garnsey E., 2008, Commercialising Nano-innovations from University Spin-out companies, Nanotechnology Perceptions Vol 4 December
• Interview - Bronwen Rees interviews Elizabeth Garnsey. Interconnections Issue 2, 2008 Perspectives on Sustainability Directions for environmental innovation – time, space and enterprise pp. 20 - 26. [Download PDF file of interview 342k]
• Stam and Garnsey, 2008, Chapter 7 Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Economy, in J Bessant, T Venables, eds., 2008,‘Creating Wealth from Knowledge’ 
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• Brendan Cronin and Elizabeth Garnsey, (19 October 2007), Daylight Saving in GB; Is there evidence in favour of clock time on GMT?
  This unpublished pilot study has been abridged and reissued in updated form in October 2009. Regression findings from a more extensive modelling exercise supercede those in the 2007 version of the paper and are reported in a new paper: "Daylight Saving, Electricity Demand and Emissions; Exploratory Studies from Great Britain", October 2009, by Yu-Foong Chong, Elizabeth Garnsey, Simon Hill and Frederic Desobry available at:  http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/ewg/091022_dst.pdf [Download paper 568k - abstract revised 27/10/2009]

• Garnsey Elizabeth, McGlade James, eds, 2006, Complexity and Co-evolution; continuity and change in socio-economic systems, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 219 pp. [Download a flyer about this book]
• Maine, E. & Garnsey, E. (2006), 'Commercializing generic technology: The case of advanced materials ventures', Research Policy, 35(3), pp. 375-393. (abstract)
• Garnsey E., Heffernan P. (2005), 'High Tech Clustering through Spin Out and Attraction; the Cambridge Case', Regional Studies, Vol. 39.8, pp. 1127-1144, November 2005. (abstract)
• Garnsey E., Heffernan P. (2005), 'Growth Setbacks in New Firms', Futures, 37, p 675-697. (abstract)
• Garnsey E., Stam E., Heffernan P., 2006, New Firm Growth: Exploring Processes and Paths, Industry and Innovation, Volume 13.1 pp 1-20 (abstract)
• Hugo, O. and Garnsey, E. (2004), 'Problem-Solving and Competence Creation in New Firms', Managerial and Decision Economics, vol 26 pp 139-148. (abstract)
• Druilhe, C., and Garnsey E., (2004), 'Do Academic Spin-off Firms Differ and Does it Matter? Journal of Technology Transfer, 29,269-285 . (abstract)
• Garnsey, E., Longhi, C. (2004), 'Complex Processes and Innovative Places; The Evolution of High Tech Cambridge and Sophia-Antipolis' , International Journal of Technology Management, 28, (3-6), 336-355. (abstract)
• Garnsey E. (2003), 'Developmental Conditions of UK biopharmaceutical ventures', Innovation Management, Policy and Practice, vol 5 issue 2-3 Nov - Dec 2003 pp 99-119. (abstract)
• Garnsey, E. (2002) 'The growth of new ventures: analysis after Penrose.' In Pitelis, C. (ed.): The growth of the firm: the legacy of Edith Penrose. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.101-125
• Hugo O., Garnsey E., (2002), 'The Emergence of Electronic Messaging and the Growth of Four Entrepreneurial Entrants' in Oakey R. , DuringW., Kauser S, Eds, 2002, New Technology-based Firms in the New Millenium Volume 2 Pergamon Press, Amsterdam, (ISBN: 00080441335) pp.97-123
• Jennifer Frances and Elizabeth Garnsey, (2001), 'Lean information and the Role of the Internet ' in Food Retailing in the United Kingdom in  Tracking a Transformation, E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries, 2001, BRIE -IGCE E-conomy Project,   The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. Download PDF file [320k] Posted with permission.
• Garnsey E., (2000), 'A Theory of the Early Growth of the Firm', in Storey D., 2000, Critical Perspectives on Small Firms, Sage, reprinted from Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol No 3 1998, pp 523-556
• Druilhe, C. and Garnsey, E. (2000) "Emergence and growth of high-tech activity in Cambridge and Grenoble." Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 12(2): 163-177
• Miller, D. and Garnsey, E. (2000) "Entrepreneurs and technology diffusion: how diffusion research can benefit from a greater understanding of entrepreneurship." Technology in Society, 22(4): 445-465
• Best, M. and Garnsey, E. (1999) "Edith Penrose, 1914-1996." Economic Journal, 109(453): 187-201

More publications

• Minshall, T. and Garnsey, E. (1999) "Building production competence and enhancing organizational capabilities through acquistion: the case of Mitsubishi Electric." International Journal of Technology Management, 17(3): 312-333
• Garnsey E., Lawton Smith H., 1998, 'Proximity and Complexity in the Emergence of high Technology Industry: The Oxbridge Comparison', Geoforum, vol 29 no 4 pp 433-450
• Garnsey E., 1998, 'The Genesis of the High Technology Milieu: A study in complexity', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 22 No 3 pp 361-377