Professor Andrew Tylecote
Professor of the Economics and Management of Technological Change
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Andrew Tylecote was a Scholar of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle on Tyne, and before university taught for a year at the Modern School, New Delhi, India. He was then a Major Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford University, where he gained First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1968 (also studying sociology and history). He then gained an MA in Industrial Economics at the University of Sussex, and returned to Oxford for a BPhil in Economics. He subsequently gained a doctorate, at Sheffield, for his book on The Causes of the Present Inflation.
Andrew´s work as an economist has always been based firmly on concern with the institutions of the economy, foremost of them the firm, and this led him to work also on management. He has worked on technology for more than 25 years and wasVisiting Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, in 1984. Andrew has been Professor of the Economics and Management of Technological Change at Sheffield since 1994. His main recent focus has been the effect of corporate governance and finance on technological change. He led a 6-country, EU-funded (€800 000) study on this area in 1998-2002. His book arising from this project, Corporate Governance, Finance and the Technological Advantage of Nations (Routledge), co-authored by Francesca Visintin (Udine, Italy) was published in 2008, and won the Myrdal Prize in 2010 for (in the words of the Prize Committee) its `excellence and timeliness´.
His work on development also goes back more than 25 years, but has recently been intensified by his participation in the Globelics and Cicalics networks which bring together technology and development experts. He has been particularly concerned with the technological development of China, again mostly viewed from the point of view of corporate governance and finance, publishing jointly with his former students Dr Cai Jing (Aberdeen University) and Jiajia Liu (Manchester Business School) and in 2008 concluded a study of Corporate Governance and Technological Development in China, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, in collaboration with Professor Wu Guisheng (Tsinghua University) and Professor Fang Lee Cooke (Manchester University). He has also published recently on appropriate technology in China and elsewhere, and on technological change in Indian software SMEs, with his former student Dr Abhishek Nirjar (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow). He was in 2005 and 2007 Visiting Professor at the Center for Research on Technological Innovation at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and in 2008 Visiting Professor at the National Institute for Innovation Management, Zhejiang University.
Andrew has long been active in European bodies (he speaks French, German and Spanish fluently) and has been Treasurer of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy and Secretary of the Foundation for European Economic Development. He writes regularly for newspapers, particularly The Guardian.
Selected Recent Publications
A.Tylecote, J.Cai, J. Liu, `Why is Mainland China Rising in Some Sectors and Failing in Others? A Critical View of the Chinese System of Innovation´, International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 7 (2) 123-144, Jan.2010.
Jiajia Liu and A.Tylecote, "Corporate governance and technological capability development: Three case studies in the Chinese Auto industry."Industry and Innovation, 16 (4), Sept.2009, 525–544.
Jing Cai and Andrew Tylecote, "Corporate governance and technological dynamism of Chinese firms in mobile telecommunications: a quantitative study", Research Policy. 37 (10) Dec.2008, 1790-1811.
Isabel Cantista and Andrew Tylecote, "Industrial innovation, corporate governance and supplier-customer relationships", Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2008, 19 (5) 576-590.
A.Tylecote, `Corporate governance and technological development in Chinese firms´, Ch.12, X.Liu, W.Zhang (eds.), China's Three Decades of Economic Reforms, London/New York: Routledge, 2009.
Andrew Tylecote and Francesca Visintin, Corporate governance, finance and the technological advantage of nations, London and New York: Routledge. Jan.2008. (Winner of Myrdal Prize, 2010.)
A.Tylecote and F.Visintin, `A New Taxonomy of National Systems of Corporate Governance´, in L.Mjøset, T.Clausen (eds.) Capitalisms Compared, Amsterdam: Elsevier JAI, 2007, pp.71-122.
Andrew Tylecote, "The role of finance and corporate governance in national systems of innovation", Organization Studies, October 2007. 28 (10), 1461-1481.
A.Tylecote and G.Vertova, "Technology and institutions in changing specialisation: chemicals and motor vehicles in the US, UK and Germany in the 20th Century", Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16 (5), 875-901.
Andrew Tylecote (2006) "Twin Innovation Systems and Intermediate Technology: History and Prospect for China", Innovation Management, Policy and Practice, 8 (1-2) 62-83.
Andrew Tylecote and Paulina Ramirez (2005), "Corporate Governance and Innovation: the UK compared with the US and `insider´ economies",Research Policy, 35 (1), Feb., 160-180.
Abhishek Nirjar and Andrew Tylecote (2005), "Breaking out of lock-in: ways up the value ladder for Indian software SMEs", Information Resource Management Journal 18 (4), October-December 2005, 40-59.
Andrew Tylecote "Chinese running out of cheating time", Guardian, May 23rd, 2005, p.25.
Andrew Tylecote, "We don´t need all that oil", Guardian, April 5th, 2004, p.25.