Howard Rush

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Howard Rush
Affiliation:	CENTRIM / University of Brighton
Email:	h.j.rush@brighton.ac.uk
Phone:	+44 1273877912
Homepage:	http://centrim.mis.brighton.ac.uk/people/a-z/hjr3

Professor Howard Rush has worked in science and technology policy since 1974. A founder member of CENTRIM, Professor Rush has lead work on the socio-economic impacts of information technology, benchmarking of research and technology institutes, the diffusion of new technologies, the evaluation of government policies and regional innovation policy. Between 1996 and 2006 he was co-director of the ESRC-funded Complex Product Systems Innovation Centre. Howard has been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Industrial Economics in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and 'Innovator in Residence' at the University of Queenland's Business School, Brisbane, Australia. He has been the Chair of NATO's funding review panel on Science and Technology Policy, a member of the EPSRC's Peer College and the ESRC's Director's Network, as well as an expert advisor to the OECD and the European Commission (on benchmarking for DG Enterprise). He was the chair of the Scientific Committees of two EC sixth framework projects (RECORD and Pro-Act). Professor Rush has also conducted research and consultancies for many governmental organizations such the UK Government Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and its predecessor the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry), The World Bank, and United Nations agencies such as the ILO, UNEP, UNESCO, and IFAD.