Martin Fransman is Professor of Economics and Founder-Director of the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies (JETS) at the University of Edinburgh.

He is author of numerous books and articles, including:

• The Market and Beyond: Information Technology in Japan (Cambridge University Press) which won the Masayoshi Ohira Prize,
• Japan's Computer and Communications Industry (Oxford University Press), and
• Visions of Innovation (Oxford University Press)
• Telecoms in the Internet Age: From boom to bust to ? (Oxford University Press, Sept. 2002)

He has been Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at Tokyo University where he held the NTT Chair of Telecommunications, at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the University of Nice, France. He is currently a visiting fellow at ICER, University of Turin, Italy.

He has worked with numerous governments and international organisations as well as with leading telecoms companies such as AT&T, BT, France Telecom, NTT, Ericsson, Siemens, NEC and Fujitsu. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences organised by bodies such as the Financial Times, the US Library of Congress, the International Computer Communications Conference (ICCC), the IEEE, and the International Telecommunications Society (ITS).