• Creative industries and the knowledge economy
• Urban and regional economic development
• Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
• Use of survey-based economic valuation techniques

Research group: Economic development

Current and recent projects

• Accommodating Creative Knowledge: Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions within the Enlarged Union (ACRE): A four-year European research project lead by the University of Amsterdam in partnership with CURS and 12 other institutions

Selected publications

Brown J, Meczynski M (2008) ‘Complexcities’, Locational choices of creative and knowledge-based workers, forthcoming in Built Environment

Brown J, Barber A, Chapain C, Gibney J, Lutz J, Murie, A (2008) Understanding the attractiveness of Birmingham and the West Midlands Region for creative knowledge firms, The Manager’s View, Amsterdam: AMIDst, University of Amsterdam

Brown J, Chapain C, Murie A, Lutz J,  Barber A, Gibney J (2008) Birmingham: Towards a creative knowledge economy? Understanding the attractiveness of the metropolitan region for creative knowledge workers, Amsterdam: AMIDst, University of Amsterdam

Brown J, Chapain C, Murie A, Barber A, Gibney J, Lutz J (2007) From City of a Thousand Trades to City of a Thousand Ideas, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK: Pathways to Creative and Knowledge-Based Regions, Amsterdam, AMIDst

Brown J (2004) Economic Values and Cultural Heritage Conservation: Assessing the Use of Stated Preference Techniques for Measuring Changes in Visitor Welfare, London. Imperial College

Brown J (2004) Measuring the Cost of Congestion at Historic Properties: A Comparison of Stated Preference Approaches, EPMG Working Paper Series, SM02-01

Brown J (2004) Are Preferences the Same Across Populations? Assessing the Use of Choice Experiments for Benefit Transfer of Heritage Values, EPMG Working Paper Series, SM02-02

Conferences

Brown J, Meczynski M (2008) ‘Complexcities’: Locational choices of creative and knowledge-based workers, Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference, Prague, 27 – 29 May, 2008

Brown J, Mourato S (2002) ‘Measuring the Cost of Congestion at Historic Properties: A Stated Preference Approach’, 2nd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Monterey, California, June 2002

Brown J (2000) ‘The Social Benefits of Cultural Heritage Conservation: An Economic Approach’, 4th European Commission Conference on Research for Protection, Conservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage: Opportunities for European Enterprises, Strasbourg, 22-24 November 2000