Profile

Jonathan Haskel is a Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School based in the Healthcare Management and Innovation and Enterprise Group. He is also School Research Director.  He has just finished eight years as a Member of the UK Competition Commission, including serving on the panel investigation into British Airports Authority. 

Jonathan was previously Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Economics, Queen Mary, University of London.  He has taught at the University of Bristol and  London Business School and been a visiting professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University and the Australian National University. 

Jonathan is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the IZA, Bonn and an Associate Editor of Economica.  He is an elected member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society.

Research interests

His research interests are productivity, innovation, intangible investment and growth.  His research centre is CERIBA, (the Centre for Research into Business Activity).

For recent papers, visit

1.  CeRiBA pages , or

2. Repec page Papers 

My  work on the contribution of science to economic growth was kindly extensively quoted by ministers in the run up to the 2010 Spending Review where the science budget escaped large cuts.  Here is a video of me talking about why the science budget should be defended. 

Short research statement

My main research interests are productivity, innovation, intangible investment and growth.  I currently study (a) how much firms investment in “intangible” or "knowledge" assets, such as software, R&D and new business processes (b) how much such investment contributes to economic growth as whole and (c) what public policy implications there might be, especially for science policy.  This work uses a mix of data at the levelsof company, individual, industry and whole economy.

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