Dylan Jones-Evans is Director of Research and Innovation at the University of Wales and Chairman of the Welsh Conservatives’ Economic Commission. At 29, he was appointed as the youngest professor of business and management in Europe, holding the chair of entrepreneurship and small business management at the University of Glamorgan. He has subsequently held academic chairs at the University of Wales Bangor and NEWI in Wrexham. He is currently visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the Turku School of Economics in Finland. He is widely recognized as one of the leading economic analysts in Wales and a regular media commentator and author of the best-selling textbook Enterprise and Small Business. He is also director of the Wales Fast Growth Fifty and sits on the Executive Committee for the Institute of Directors in Wales.

The massive step change we need

These dire economic times require radical solutions, argues the Welsh Conservatives’ Economic Commission, which has released its proposals today. Here, its chairman outlines the thinking behind it

Paper tigers and dragged feet

As their party conference begins in Manchester, a leading Welsh Conservative claims that the Welsh Assembly Government has squandered a series of opportunities that would have helped Wales combat the recession