Department of Economics, NUI Galway : Dr. Aidan Kane

Ethos and history

Aidan Kane completed a B.A.[Mod] degree in economics and a Ph.D. at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He has been at the Department of Economics NUI, Galway since 1994. His major research interest to date has been the political economy of historical Irish public finance, with a particular focus on the path of fiscal policy since Independence, the constitutional/institutional framework for fiscal policy, and on the construction of datasets for the periods before which the national statistical authorities provide data i.e., pre-1950s. Dr. Kane is also pursuing a research interest in the economics of technological change and in particular in the political economy of science, technology and innovation policy in Ireland. He is a former Director (2002-2006) of the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC) at NUI Galway. He also pursues an interest in the application of web technologies to teaching and research.

Selected Publications

Kane, A., Irish public finances 1922/23 to 1963/64: work-in-progress on a new dataset. Presentation at seminar series, Department of Economics, University of Limerick: 27th April 2007.

Kane, A., Saying the 'right thing': the rhetoric of innovation, and the practice of evaluation. Presentation at ICSTI Forfas CISC European Conference on Good Practice in Evaluation of Research, NUI Galway: 24th May 2004.

Kane, A., Human Resources for the Innovation Society: a Review of Recent Data. Presentation for CISC Seminar Series, NUI Galway: 30th September 2004.

Kane,A., Innovation Policy in Ireland: Economic Ideas and Institutional Diversity, Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland XXVIII:I, pp. 115-25: 1999.

Kane, A, Indicators and Evaluation for Science, Technology and Innovation, Working paper for Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI) Task Force on Metrics and Impact, Dublin: April 2001.

Kane, A., Rationales for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. Working paper for Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI), Task force on Force on Metrics and Impact, Dublin: April 2001.

Kane, A., A Public Choice View of Irish Property Rights. Studies, Winter, pp. 459-67: 1993.

Public Expenditure: Trends and Prospects. Irish Banking Review, Summer: 1995.