Short Profile:
Helena Lenihan is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. She is twice winner of the University of Limerick 'Excellence in Teaching Award'. During the Academic Year 2007/2008, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. Concurrently, she was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK (Jan-June 2008). She spent June 2008 as a Visiting Academic at the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (CSME), Warwick Business School, University of Warwick UK.
Helena Lenihan's research is in the area of Business Economics. In particular, she is concerned with issues of Business Development, survival and Growth. More specifically, she is concerned with looking at issues of innovation and R&D; networking; and industrial policy interventions that affect business growth and success. She is also concerned with the evaluation of government interventions as they relate to the above. Helena Lenihan has a strong interest in comparative perspectives, for example, looking at the issue of whether the Irish industrial policy approach may provide lessons for other countries (e.g. newer EU member states; developing countries in Africa). Overall, her research has a strong policy dimension and issues are analysed from both applied and theoretical perspectives.
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journals
Bailey, D, Lenihan, H and Singh, A (2009) "Lessons for African Economies from Irish and East Asian Industrial Policy" Journal of Industry Competition and Trade (in press - currently available on-line, click here for paper).
Andreosso-O' Callaghan, B and H. Lenihan (2008) "Networking: a question of firm characteristics? The case of the Shannon region in Ireland", Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 20(6): 561-580.
Lenihan, H. and M. Hart, 2004, "The use of Counterfactual Scenarios as a means to assess policy deadweight: an Irish Case Study", Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22: 817-839.
Lenihan, H., 2004, Evaluating Irish industrial policy in terms of deadweight and displacement: A quantitative methodological approach. Applied Economics 36(3): 229-252.
Book Chapters
Lenihan, H and Sugden, R (2008) "Policy on Business Networking in Ireland: A Review, and Prospects for Evaluation" in Araguren, M., Iturrioz, C and J. Wilson (eds), Networks, Governance and Economic Development: Bridging Disciplinary Frontiers, Edward Elgar, pp. 129-151.
Guest edited Journal Special Issue
Lenihan, H., M. Hart and S. Roper, (Guest Eds), 2007, 'The Evaluation Challenge: Lessons from Industrial and Regional Development Policies', International Review of Applied Economics, Volume 21, Number 3, July, pp. 313-467.
