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Dr Jonathan  Liebenau

Dr Jonathan Liebenau

Associate Professor (Reader) of Technology Management

Department of Management

Telephone
+44 (0)20 7955 7338
Room No
MAR 5.30
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Technology management and innovation

About me

Dr Jonathan Liebenau is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Technology Management. He specialises in two areas: fundamental concepts of information, and the problems and prospects of information and communication technology in economic development. He has previously worked in academic administration, technology policy, and the economic history of science-based industry, all positions in which he has emphasised the use of information in organisations. He is the author or editor of several books and over 70 other major publications and has provided consultancy services to leading companies and strategic government agencies, including: Dell, BT, IBM, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy Services, Nortel, EDS, Lloyd Thompson; and in the UK Government, the Office of Science and Innovation, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Home Office. He also has worked with the Royal Society for the Arts and DigitalEurope, and is on the advisory boards of Istanbul Bilgi University and American University in Cairo, School of Business.

Dr Jonathan Liebenau leads ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Tech, a research group at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s Department of Management active in the area of Internet and Communications Economics, Policy and Strategy. 

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Expertise Details

Technology management and innovation; information systems in developing countries; telecommunications; mobile technologies; technology policy; internet; internet technologies; informatics

Students

PhD Supervision

Jonathan Liebenau's current doctoral students

Enrico Rossi, “Governance and innovation in the automobile sector”

Koen Rutten , “Innovation systems in the Chinese telecommunications sector”

Nofi Iman, "Payment systems"

 


Past PhD Students

 of the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University and  of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance)

Marc Laperrouza, 2006

"ICT policies in China" (examined by Dr. Chris Hughes of the Department of International Relations, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and  [currently with the Evian Group, IMD Business School, Switzerland and affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology working on the management of network industries, and president of ]

Ruri Abe, 2004

"Peripheral identities in transition" (examined by Dr. David Shankland of  and  [currently Associate Professor of Media & Communication, Sophia University, Tokyo]

Fola Yahaya, 2000

 (examined by Prof. Gerald Grant of Carleton University and Dr. Shirin Madon of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [currently CEO of ]

Tanai Khiaonarong, 1999

 (examined by Prof. Mike Hobday of the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University and Dr. Steve Smithson of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now with the ; and Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, 

Mehmet Islamoğlu, 1999

 (examined by Prof. Claudio Ciborra then of Institute THESEUS, Nice, and Dr. James Backhouse of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now Associate Professor of MIS, ; previously with ]

Ashraf Hassan, 1998

 (examined by Dr. Chris Sadler of  and Prof. Ian Angell of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now President and CEO, Delta Investment Group, Cairo]

Jason Huang, 1997

"Participation in information systems design; a structuration perspective" (examined by Prof. Guy Fitzgerald, then of , now  and Dr. Mike Newman of Manchester University) [now Manager, .]

Heejin Lee, 1997

 (examined by Dr. James Backhouse of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Prof. Steve Sawyer then of , now of the School of Information, Pennsylvania State University) [latterly Lecturer in Information Systems, Brunel University, then Associate Professor of Information Systems, , now Associate Professor of Information Systems, Yonsei University]

G. Harindranath, 1997

 (examined by Dr. Richard Heeks of  and Dr. Shirin Madon of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now Senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems, , University of London; ]

Gerry Grant, 1996

 (examined by Prof. Pat Hall of the  and Dr. Steve Smithson of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)  [now Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of  Management, , Canada; previously at McGill University School of Management]

Sherif Kamel, 1994

 (examined by Prof. David Wield of the Open University and Dr. Shirin Madon, of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now director of the Regional Information Technology Institute, Cairo and Associate Professor of Information Systems at the ]

Stefano Kluzer, 1993

 (examined by Prof. Geoff Walsham of Cambridge University and Prof. Ian Angell of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)  [now a researcher with ENEA, Rome and doing consultancy on innovation and regional development in northern Italy]

Michael Robson, 1992

"The Pharmaceutical Industry in Britain and France" (examined by Prof. Alan Milward of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) *Dept. of Economic History [now a systems director for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, in Rome]

James Backhouse, 1991

 (examined by Prof. David Avison of  and Prof. Ian Angell of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now a Reader in Information Systems at the London School of Economics]

Miron M. Marche, 1991

 (examined by Prof. David Avison of Southampton University and Prof. Ian Angell of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now professor of MIS at , Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada]

Mayuri Odedra, 1990

 (examined by Prof. Geoff Walsham of  and Prof. Ian Angell of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [later with the Indian Institute of Technology, Bangalore, now with Sakura Consulting]

Krisana Kitiyadisai, 1990

 (examined by Prof. Peter Checkland of Lancaster University and Prof. Ian Angell of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) [now with the Department of Public Administration, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok]

Timo Myllyntaus, 1989

"Transfer of Technology to Finland, The Case of Electricity" (supervised with Prof. Leslie Hannah) Dept. of Economic History [recently with the , now Senior Lecturer at the ] 


 

Teaching

Teaching

Blogs

Latest blog posts by Jonathan


On Monday 10 February, Jonathan Liebenau presented a synopsis of one of the research themes of our team during the February’s London Enterprise Technology MeetUp held monthly at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. Read here Jonathan’s remarks, key questions and possible ways forward … 


Last week, the Cooperative Association of Internet Data Analysis [CAIDA] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held its 4th invitation-only workshop on internet economics on the theme “Economic Health of the Internet Ecosystem”. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Tech’s Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood and Jonathan … 


On December 4 Jonathan Liebenau addressed the opening keynote of the FT Mobile Business Futures Summit. The half day event brought together leaders and senior executives from key sectors in the economy to discuss future opportunities and challenges that the … 


TheUK Department for Culture, Media & Sport released today a report on the benefits of superfast broadband in the UK. In this blog, Jonathan Liebenau from ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Tech offers initial thoughts on the study’s general scope, its  usefulness and limitations … 


The TPRC is the oldest and most influential continuous meeting on telecoms policy, always held in Washington, D.C. and nowadays subtitled the “Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy”. Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood and Jonathan Liebenau of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Tech team presented … 

My research

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