History of entrepreneurship, and SME policy
History of Chambers of Commerce
Local and Regional Economic Development: The Role of Institutions
Emeritus Professor of Geography
Undergraduate at St. Catharine's 1967-70, PhD 1970-3 (awarded 1974), Scholar 1968-7; senior scholar 1970
1973-1978: Lecturer, University College London.
1978: Visiting Professor, University of California Berkeley; Guest Scholar Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. (also in 1979, 1981, 1984)
1978-1985: Lecturer, University of Cambridge, Fellow Fitzwilliam College.
1984: International Fellow, Macquarie University, New South Wales.
1985: US-UK International Fellow, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
1989: University Fellow, George Mason University, Virginia.
1985-1996: Professor of Geography London School of Economics.
1996-2000: Leverhulme Research Professor, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Fellow St. Catharine's College.
1996-2010: Professor of Geography (1931), Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Fellow St. Catharine's College.
1996-: Senior Associate of the Judge Business School (Cambridge Centre of Business Research); Member of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop).
2011-: Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge and PI Director of Research 2011-19; Emeritus Fellow, St. Catharine's College.
Bennett, R.J., 2014. Entrepreneurship, small business and public policy: Evolution and revolution. p.1-176. doi:10.4324/9780203078624.
Bennett, R.J. (ed.), 2012. Environment and Planning: Volume C: Government and Policy, Sage. 540pp.
Elden, S., Thrift, N., Barnes, T.J., Peck, J., Batty, M., Longley, P.A. and Bennett, R.J. (eds.), 2012. Environment and Planning: Volume E: Foundations, Sage. 539pp.
Bennett, R.J., 2011. Local Business Voice: The history of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland and Revolutionary America, 1760-2011, Oxford University Press.
Bennett, R.J., 2010. The voice of Liverpool business: The first chamber of commerce and the Atlantic economy 1774-c.1796.
Earlier books
1978 (R.J. Bennett and R.J. Chorley) Environmental Systems: philosophy, analysis and control, (Methuen, London), 624pp.
(eds. R.L. Martin, N. Thrift and R.J. Bennett) Dynamic Analysis of Spatial Systems, (Pion, London), 210pp.
1979 Spatial Time Series: analysis, forecasting and control (Pion, London), 674pp.
1980 The Geography of Public Finance: welfare under fiscal federalism and local government finance, (Methuen, London), 498pp.
1981 (eds. N. Wrigley and R.J. Bennett) Quantitative Geography in Britain: retrospect and prospect, (RKP, London), 419pp.
(ed.) European Quantitative and Theoretical Geography: a symposium, (Pion, London), 305pp.
1982 Central Grants to Local Governments: the political and economic impacts of the Rate Support Grant, (Cambridge University Press), 351pp.
1984 (K.C. Tan and R.J. Bennett), Optimal Control of Spatial Systems, (Allen and Unwin, London), 178pp.
1985 Intergovernmental Financial Relations in Austria, (ANU Press, Canberra), 90pp.
(A.G. Wilson and R.J. Bennett), Mathematical and Statistical Theory in Human Geography and Planning, (J. Wiley Guidebooks in Applicable Mathematics, Chichester), 411pp.
1986 (eds. R.J. Bennett and H. Zimmermann) Local Business Taxes in Britain and Germany: Conference Report, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), 186pp.
1988 (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Local Business Taxes in Britain and Germany, (Nomos, Baden-Baden), 344pp.
1989 (ed.) Territory and Administration in Europe, (Frances Pinter, London), 316pp.
1990 (ed.) Decentralisation, Local Governments and Markets: towards a post-welfare agenda, (Clarendon Press, Oxford), 412pp.
(eds. R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann) Local Economic Development in Britain and Germany, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), 174pp.
1991 (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Local Economic Development: public-private partnership initiatives in Britain and Germany, (Belhaven Press, London), 200pp.
(eds. R.J. Bennett and R.C. Estall) Global Change and Challenge: Geography for the 1990s, (Routledge, London), 264pp.
1993 (R.J. Bennett and A. McCoshan) Enterprise and Human Resource Development: local capacity building, (Paul Chapman, London), 336pp.
(eds. R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann) Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Germany and the Impact of the Single European Market, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), 200pp.
(ed.) Local Government in the New Europe, (Belhaven Press, London), 309pp.
1994 (R.J. Bennett, P.J. Wicks and A. McCoshan) Local Empowerment and Business Services: Britain’s experiment with Training and Enterprise Councils, (UCL Press, London), 349pp.
(ed.) Local Government and Market Decentralisation: experiences in industrialised, developing and former eastern bloc countries, (United Nations University Press, Tokyo), 506pp.
1997 (ed.) Trade Associations in Britain and Germany: responding to internationalisation and the EU. (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn) 118pp.
2000 (R.J. Bennett and D.A. Payne) Local and Regional Economic Development: renegotiating power under Labour (Ashgate, Aldershot) 291 pp.
(1969) Scholar, St Catharine's College, Cambridge; (1970) Senior Scholar, St Catharine's College, Cambridge; (1982) Royal Geographical Society, Roderick E Murchison Award for contributions to study of public finance and public administration