Dr Jonathan Liebenau

Reader in Technology Management

Dr Jonathan Liebenau is a Reader in Technology Management in the Department of 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.

Research interests

• Turkey: politics and economics
• Information systems/technology: developing countries, Eastern Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Turkey and Central Asia
• Technological innovation
• Mobile technologies
• Technology policy, internet, internet technologies
• European information society; history of science, technology and medicine
• Technology management
• Telecommunications
• Mobile technologies
• Wireless technologies
• Science policy
• Technical change
• Informatics

Teaching

• MG414 Foundations of Public Management and Governance
• MG426 Organisations in the Economy and Society
• MG482 Innovation and Technology Management

Recent publications

• Modelling the cloud: employment effects in two exemplary sectors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy
  Liebenau, Jonathan and Kärrberg, Patrik and Grous, Alexander and Castro, Daniel (2012) Modelling the cloud: employment effects in two exemplary sectors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Enterprise, London, UK.
• Near field communications: privacy, regulation & business models
  Liebenau, Jonathan and Elaluf-Calderwood, Silvia and Hosein, Gus and Kärrberg, Patrik (2011) Near field communications: privacy, regulation & business models. LSE/Nokia research collaboration, Department of Management, London School of Economics, London, UK.
• Towards a taxonomy for regulatory issues in a digital business ecosystem in the EU
  Tsatsou, Panayiota and Elaluf-Calderwood, Silvia and Liebenau, Jonathan (2010) Towards a taxonomy for regulatory issues in a digital business ecosystem in the EU. Journal of Information technology, 25 (3). 288 -307. ISSN 0268-3962
• Achievements in e-government
  Liebenau, Jonathan (2010) Achievements in e-government. In: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (corp. ed.) Progress in public management in the Middle East and North Africa. OECD, Paris, France, pp. 187-208. ISBN 9789264082069
• Technology in a cold climate: intelligent public services and an interconnected innovative and sustainable society
  Young, Jamie and Kärrberg, Patrik and Liebenau, Jonathan (2010) Technology in a cold climate: intelligent public services and an interconnected innovative and sustainable society. RSA (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), London, UK.

Complete list of publications

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