Director

Barry Moore is a Director of PACEC, Emeritus Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge, a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) and a Fellow in Economics at Downing College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally recognised applied economist with his early research being undertaken in the Department of Applied Economics (DAE) in the University of Cambridge and subsequently helped to co-found the Centre for Business Research at the Judge Business School before moving to the Department of Land Economy. He is a member of the advisory board of the School of Business, Bangor University, Wales.

Barry co-founded PACEC in 1985 building on his applied academic research at the DAE, and has been providing services in support of local, regional and national economic development ever since. He spearheaded the growth of the company’s work in technology and knowledge transfer from the research base into the economy; innovation and regional policy development; policy appraisal and evaluation; and the development of applied economic methodology. He has worked for many of the major UK central government departments (including BIS, HM Treasury, and DEFRA), regional development agencies, other government bodies (e.g. NAO, HEFCE), as well as private sector companies both in the UK and overseas. He recently has directed a number of key projects in the higher education sector including evaluating knowledge exchange funding for HEFCE which has helped shape the future of the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and assessing the economic and social impacts of higher education institutions for a variety of individual universities. Previous ESRC funded research includes a study of the relationship between academic research and R&D strategies in large companies. He was also a Principal Investigator of a European Commission Targeted Socio-Economic Research project which focused on high-technology clusters in the EU and the role of HEIs.

Assistant Director

Nic Boyns BA is an Assistant Director of PACEC and the head of the Economic Intelligence and Forecasting Team. He is a statistical economics specialist, having worked in the field for twenty years. Nic is responsible for all PACEC’s data and statistical analysis following survey research. He created PACEC’s survey design and analysis system which has been used on over 200 surveys.Nic has extensive experience of economic modelling, scenario analysis, and designed the Impact Assessment Model, the PACEC input/output model and the LEPS system, which provides historical trends by area for indicators including employment, occupation by sector, unemployment, firms/workplaces, business starts, the self-employed, population, and labour supply. He is responsible for PACEC’s economic forecast model and producing forecasts at the local and regional levels for employment (and sectors) and population. He also built a localised input-output model for PACEC’s economic impact projects, customising both published data with empirical survey research sectors including fishing, forestry, agriculture, tourism, oil and renewables, creative industries, higher education and other sectors.

He has worked for a wide range of clients including:

• Economic impact of SMART (Scottish Government, DTI), Grants for R&D (LDA), Grants for Collaborative R&D (Technology Strategy Board) Business Link (DTI), Evaluation of Enterprise Investment Scheme and Venture Capital Trusts (Inland Revenue), Scottish Seed and Venture Funds (Scottish Enterprise), Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (Durham County Council), Skillseekers (Scottish Enterprise), Trade Partners UK, Investment in Sites and premises (South West Regional Development Agency), Third stream funding of Higher Education (Higher Education Funding Council for England), Selective Finance for Investment (LDA), Design Council.
   
• Local Economic Assessments of South Cambridgeshire (SCDC), Ashbourne (Derbyshire Dales DC), Pendle(PBC), London Sub regional economy (LDA), Greater Cambridge (GCP), Nottinghamshire (LSC)
   
• Economic and environmental impact of Sporting Shooting (British Association for Shooting and Conservation), Great Fen (Wildlife Trust), Salmon and Prawn Industries (Highlands and Islands Enterprise), Forestry (Forestry Commission), Undergrazing in the East of England (Countryside Agency)
   
• Economic and social impact studies of Universities (Universities of Plymouth, Hertfordshire and Essex) and the Scout Association (SA)
   
• Econonic impact study of Stansted’s Second Runway (Govt Office for Eastern Region), Bexhill-Hastings Link Road (East Sussex County Council), extension to Luton Airport’s runway (Luton Airport Ltd)Economic impact of the Credit Crunch on local economies (Local Government Association), Single Market on EU banks (European Commission), Closure of chemical works (Tees Valley Partnership)Skills assessments for Ireland (Forfas), Justice sector (SfJ), North West (LSC Merseyside), Health sector (Skills for Health), Leadership and Management in the Case sector (Skills for Care)Assessment of Cluster of UK industries (DTI), Functional Economies (Local Government Association) 

Assistant Director

Tomas Ulrichsen is an Assistant Director at PACEC, and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research. He holds a Masters degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London and a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Key research interests include the exploitation of the innovation system knowledge base and the socio-economic impact of higher education, sector competitiveness analyses, and industrial / innovation policy development and evaluation. Many of his major projects involve cross-country analyses to draw out lessons learnt from international experience. He has worked for a wide range of clients including HEFCE, BIS, HM Treasury, RDAs including EEDA and SWRDA, NAO, Ministry of Trade and Industry Ghana, and a range of universities and private sector clients. Recently, he managed a major stream of research for HEFCE evaluating their knowledge exchange funding and produced a series of working papers (knowledge exchange infrastructure, synergies, IP, civic/community roles, and a comparison with the United States). This work has been instrumental in shaping the future of the Higher Education Innovation Fund. In 2008, he was formed part of an expert team providing advice to the Government of Ghana on their new Industrial Policy focusing on the exploitation of science and technology for enhancing industrial innovation and competitiveness.

He has significant experience in undertaking all aspects of projects including methodology design, survey design and analysis, case studies, data analysis, analysis, report writing and presenting the findings to the highest level of clients and experts. He is frequently invited to conferences, workshops and seminars to present the findings of his research and is frequently invited to provide guest lectures for the Masters in Technology Policy course at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.