Luke is Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Management in the
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at Manchester Business School. He has been on the staff of its precursor institute, PREST, since 1977 and was its Executive Director from 1990-2004. After a year as member of the Interim Leadership Team of Manchester Business School during the merger between the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST he took up the post of Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities. He now combines this role with that of Deputy Dean but remains active in research and policy advice.
His public activities include chairing the Strategic Review of the EUREKA Initiative in 1999 and then returning to chair its Annual Impact Report Panel in 2005/6. During 1996 he chaired the evaluation of the European Union's Framework Biotechnology Programmes. He previously chaired committees on the effectiveness of direct measures for R&D support on behalf of the European Commission, and the Evaluation of Futur, the German Foresight programme, and TEP, the Hungarian Foresight programme. Other committee memberships include the Finnish Public Research Funding Evaluation Committee, the Medical Research Council Steering Group for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Research Funding Schemes, and the Steering Committee of the European Industrial Research Management Association UK Forum. He was rapporteur of the influential report to European leaders, Creating an Innovative Europe, and is currently chairing a High-level Expert Group on Rationales for the European Research Area. He is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the University of Manchester and a member of the Board of Directors of Manchester Science Park Limited. He is on the editorial board of eight journals.
