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  • Wednesday, 19 November 2008
    Connect to Innovate
    David Gann

    It’s time for a reality check on innovation. The word “innovation” is fashionable. Countries and corporations position themselves in league tables of innovation. Management and strategy experts promote their approaches to inspire creativity. Scientists and inventors lay claim to radical ‘blue-sky’ innovations, while politicians exercise their minds about the most effective national innovation policies.

  • Thursday, 09 October 2008
    Inside the Innovation Matrix Launch

    The latest book from the Australian Business Foundation will be launched officially by The Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP, Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy and Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation. 

  • Thursday, 11 September 2008
    Innovation and ICT in Australia: A National Debate

    The Australian Business Foundation would like to promote the Pearcey Foundation - Innovation Roundtable & 2008 National Medal Dinner  which is supported by the AIIA, ACS, AIGroup, and AVCAL.

    The Australian Business Foundation's Chief Executive, Narelle Kennedy will be speaking at this event

  • Friday, 05 September 2008
    Innovation by Design
    Nick Leon

    combining the disciplines of design, engineering, technology and business  

    ‘the Design London experience’

    This event is co-hosted by Standards Australia

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  • Wednesday, 30 July 2008
    Success Factors for the upgrading of a National Research and Innovation System
    Matthias Weber
    Hosted by the Australian National University
  • Tuesday, 03 June 2008
    Innovation Beyond New Inventions: A presentation by Dr James Bradfield Moody
    James Bradfield Moody

    The Australian Business Foundation and Deloitte invite you to join us for the latest event in the New Angles on Innovation series featuring one of the new generation of innovation thinkers, James Bradfield Moody.

  • Wednesday, 16 April 2008
    New Tools to Map & Manage Innovation Networks
    John Steen, Sam MacAulay

    Earlier models of innovation emphasized the role of the lone inventor and the subsequent process of proving the concept and eventually taking this to the marketplace. However, in a contemporary setting, the demonstrably collaborative and iterative nature of innovation means that the focus needs to shift away from individuals and towards networks. As a result, a revolution is moving managerial thinking away from traditional linear models of innovation to non-linear innovation models, which has brought ‘social network analysis’ into the foreground. Using this powerful diagnostic tool means that rather than managing networks by intuition and guesswork, executives and policy-makers can scientifically measure the effectiveness of their efforts to help foster innovation.

    The Australian Business Foundation invites you to join us as Dr John Steen (Senior Lecturer (Strategy), University of Queensland Business School) and Sam Macaulay (PhD Student, University of Queensland & the Australian Research Council Centre for Complex Systems) present highlights of their paper on "New Tools to Map & Manage Innovation Networks", written with their co-author Tim Kastelle (Lecturer in Innovation Managementl, University of Queensland Business School). 

    The paper is for publication in the forthcoming Australian Business Foundation book on the human dimension of innovation, to be published later in 2008. 

  • Thursday, 10 April 2008
    Reshaping Innovation Policy - an international expert view from Professor Alan Hughes of the University of Cambridge
    Alan Hughes
    The Australian Business Foundation is hosting a forum with leading international researcher and government advisor Professor Alan Hughes in conjunction with the Australian Government’s Review of the National Innovation System. 
    The Review was announced by Senator Kim Carr, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research in January and will report to the Government by 31 July 2008. Professor Alan Hughes is one of a team of international experts on innovation advising the Review’s Panel of experts, led by Dr Terry Cutler.
    Professor Hughes will share his analysis of how an innovation systems approach can reshape innovation policy. He will recognise the distinctive role of innovation in services, and reflect on recent transformations in productivity in Australia and other countries. Professor Hughes will discuss:
    - his recent analysis of the acceleration of Australia’s productivity growth commissioned by the Australian Business Foundation, The Contribution of Services and Other Sectors to Australia’s Productivity Growth, 1980 – 2004;
    - latest advances in the empirical and conceptual analysis of innovation policy;
    - the role of the science base in innovation; and
    - the promotion of effective business-university collaboration and other links.

     


  • Wednesday, 28 November 2007
    Australian Productivity Growth 1980-2004
    Alan Hughes

    Where did the growth really come from?

    You are invited to join us for this very timely, post-election discussion exploring new evidence on the ingredients of Australia's productivity at the the launch of the latest research conducted for the Australian Business Foundation.

  • Wednesday, 14 November 2007
    A Decade of Discovery
    Michael Enright

    This gala dinner is to celebrate the first 10 years of the Australian Business Foundation.