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James Barlow (born 12 January 1957) is a British academic.

He has held a Chair in Technology and Innovation Management at Imperial College Business School since 2003. His work focuses on the adoption and implementation of innovation in complex sectors of the economy, especially the construction, housing and healthcare sectors.

Since 2006 Barlow has been Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), a leading research centre on innovation in healthcare technology and infrastructure. He is also a member of the executive for the NIHR Northwest London CLAHRC and the Department of Health Policy Innovation Research Unit.

Barlow holds a PhD and BA(Hons) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1984 he was appointed as a researcher at the University of Sussex, working on European housing policy issues, especially on the efficiencies of different housing systems – their ability to control costs and prices – and the impact on national housebuilding industries. He spent time in the early 1990s working at the Policy Studies Institute and University of Westminster in London. He co-authored numerous papers and three books. Barlow also advised to the UK's Department of the Environment on housing and planning policy  and was involved in the first detailed studies of the management processes involved in 'partnering' in the construction industry.

Following a return to the University of Sussex (Science & Technology Policy - SPRU) in 1999 Barlow's research interests began to focus increasingly on the adoption, implementation and sustainability of innovation in healthcare systems. This was partly stimulated by work on ‘smart homes’ for elderly and disabled people, which led to extensive research on the development and introduction of ‘remote care’ – telehealth, telemedicine, telecare. He has worked with companies and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) on remote care development projects, and with government at a strategic policy level. Barlow is part of the UK Department of Health’s team evaluating the Whole System Demonstrators remote care programme, the largest trial of these technologies ever undertaken.

Barlow has been a member of many expert panels on healthcare innovation, including for the Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Health, OFCOM, Welsh Assembly Government, Policy Exchange, King’s Fund, Royal Society and the European Commission, and has gave evidence in front of the UK's Treasury Select Committee and other Parliamentary Committees. He has worked extensively with companies involved in healthcare technologies, including Orange, BT Health, Philips and Tunstall. He chaired the healthcare advisory board for Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd and now sits on the healthcare advisory board for MITIE Group plc. Barlow is also an advisory board member of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Charity Strategy Committee, supporting significant investment in local healthcare innovation projects.