Ron Martin holds a Personal Professorship in Economic Geography in the University of Cambridge, is a Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, and Research Associate of the Centre for Business Research. His research interests cover labour market geography, the geography of money, regional competitiveness and economic development, and the application of evolutionary economics to economic geography. He was recently editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and is an editor on the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Geography, and a co founder and co-editor of the new Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. He edits the Regions and Cities book series (Routledge). He was awarded the British Academy's Special Thanksgiving to Britain Senior Research Fellowship in 1997-1998, was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2001, and Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.
His current research projects include the study of regional competitiveness across the EU, the life-cycles and evolutionary dynamics of clusters, path dependence in the economic landscape, regional venture capitalism in the UK and Germany, the geographies of the New Economy, and the local impact of the UK's New Deal welfare-to-work) programme. Recent publications include Money and the Space Economy (1999), Business Clusters in the UK (2001), Geographies of Labour Market Inequality (with P, Morrison, 2003), Regional Venture Capital Policy in Germany and the UK (2003), The State of English Cities (with J. Simmie, 2005), Putting Workfare in Place (with P. Sunley, 2005), Regional Competitive Advantage (with P. Tyler and M. Kitson, 2006), and Clusters and Regional Development (with B. Asheim and P, Cooke, 2006).
Books in preparation include Rethinking the British Economy (with P Sunley) and Critical Concepts in Economic Geography (5 vols, with P. Sunley). His paper 'The New Geographical Turn in Economics: Some Critical Reflections' (1999) is one of the most cited articles in the Cambridge Journal of Economics. Another of his articles. 'Deconstructing Clusters: Chaotic Concept or Policy Panacea?' (2003, with P. Sunley, Journal of Economic Geography) was recently selected by Oxford University Press as one of their top 100 articles (in the top 0.01% of most cited papers in the social sciences). Ron has been an advisor to the Centre for Social and Economic Inclusion (London), the European Commission, Cambridge Econometrics, The Department of Work and Pensions, The Department of Trade and Industry, The Netherlands Institute for City Innovation Studies, The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Trends Business Research, and a number of other public and private sector bodies.
Email: rlm1@cam.ac.uk
Last updated:04/07/2006
