Associate Professor
PhD. Failure in Novel Food Biotechnology Innovation, Nottingham Trent University
MSc. Science and Technology Policy, Manchester University
BSc. Physics, 2.1 (Hons) Bristol University

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Research Area

Economic behaviour and property rights

Patents and economic behaviour in development
Competition and technological change
Economic change and ‘learning’
Management of technology and innovation

Academic Experience
1999 -  Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Aarhus University
1992 - 1999: Lecturer, Department of Management Studies, Brunel University
1990 - 1992: Lecturer, Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh,
1989 - 1990: Research Fellow, Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh,
1986 - 1989: Research Fellow, Department of Business Studies, Nottingham Trent University

Selected Publications

Howells, J and Scholderer, J (2015) 'Forget Unlearning? How an Empirically Unwarranted Concept from Psychology was Imported to Flourish in Management and Organisation Studies' 30th November, accepted, Management Learning, pp 1-37.

Katznelson, R and Howells, J (2014) ‘The Myth of the Early Aviation Patent Hold-up – How a US Government Monopsony Commandeered Pioneer Airplane Patents’ Industrial and Corporate Change, 24, (1): 1-64 Link to full text in journal

Added to 'Editors' choice' list of the best of ICC articles: www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/indcor/editorchoiceicc.html

Howells, J (2005) The Management of Technological Innovation – The Shaping of Technology and Institutions of the Market Economy, London and New York, Sage, p. 1-290

Howells J (2002) 'The Response of Old Technology Incumbents to Technological Competition – Does the Sailing Ship Effect Exist?' Journal of Management Studies, 39, 7, 887-907

Howells, J (l994) Managers and Innovation - The Strategic Construction of a Biotechnology, London, Routledge, p. 1-224

Howells, J and Hine J eds, (l993) 'Innovative Banking - Competition and the Configuration of a New Network Technology, London, Routledge, p.1-238