Australian Business International Trade Services (ABITS) is one of NSW Business Chamber’s key service delivery units assisting companies to grow their business offshore through creating trade linkages and providing tailored solutions designed to create sustainable growth opportunities while reducing risks and costs.ABITS reaches and directly works with over 2,000 internationally focussed companies each year to assist them achieving offshore success.  This work includes assisting Australian companies to develop trade linkages by providing vital support in the areas of market research, marketing, project management, strategic advice, network development and supply chain management.   China Desk, ABITS is a leading team in Australia to assist Australian businesses to do business with China. The strength of the team is enhanced by the strategic alliance with the Ministry of Commerce of the P.R. China and its subsidiaries. China Desk also successfully established extensive networks with business communities, industry bodies and provincial/municipal government agencies in China. By leveraging its country expertise, experiences, strategic alliances and networks, China Desk has assisted Australian companies across a broad range of industry sectors to do business with China. For more information on China Desk’s program and business tips to assist Australian businesses to do business with China, please <a href="http://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/?content=/channels/international_trade/Country_information/China" title="Click Here">click here.</a> <a href="http://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/default.aspx?content=/channels/International_trade/Import_Export_assistance/Growing_exporters/Sara_Cheng_profile.xml" title="Sara Cheng">Sara Cheng</a> , Manager-Greater China, and <a href="http://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/default.aspx?content=/channels/International_trade/Import_Export_assistance/New_exporters/rab_memari_profile_.xml">Rab Memari</a>, International Market Analyst, Australian Business International Services are part of this project team and worked on the case studies and analysis sections of this project.

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Catherine Armitage is a well-known Australian writer and researcher. She has had a long and distinguished career as a senior journalist and editor on Australia’s two leading newspapers, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald, winning prizes for her writing on a range of topics from business and legal affairs to science and education. She has been awarded Australian government scholarships including a science and technology journalism fellowship from the Australia-China Council and a North East Asia Visits Scholarship. She was The Australian newspaper’s first titled Higher Education Correspondent, its China Correspondent based in Beijing for four years from 2002 to 2005, and its Higher Education Editor (2006-2008). Catherine now runs a successful research, writing and consultancy business focusing on three key areas: China, higher education and the not for profit sector.

2008-04-21T13:58:31+08:00

Catherine

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Armitage

2009-07-21T09:26:10+08:00

2007-10-16T16:07:45+08:00

Lachlan

Austin

CSR Ltd

2007-11-18T10:48:27+09:00

2007-10-26T17:10:07+08:00

Austin Thompson & Associates

2007-11-17T07:32:16+09:00

2007-10-29T16:28:03+09:00

Australian Business Foundation

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-17T12:24:01+08:00

Australian Expert Group of Industry Studies, University of Western Sydney

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2008-05-01T15:50:36+08:00

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Australian Stock Exchange Ltd

2008-05-01T15:50:36+08:00

2009-05-20T11:46:52+08:00

Richard

146

Bawden AM

University of Western Sydney Emeritus Professor

2009-05-20T11:46:52+08:00

2007-10-16T15:37:52+08:00

Robert

Bladier

The Australian Stock Exchange

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Professor Ed Blakely is the Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Sydney, but since January 2007, he's been spending a fair bit of time in New Orleans, where he's the Executive Director for Recovery Management, coordinating and directing Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Ed was also involved in the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1989 earthquakes, and was called in to help New York after September 11. Professor Blakely holds a BA in History, Political Science and Economics from the University of California, Riverside, and an MA in History and Development Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He also has a Master of Management from Pasadena Nazarene College and a joint PhD in Management and Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. At the University of California, he was a Hall of Fame athlete. Athough Professor Blakely has been based primarily in North America, he has considerable experience in Australia. He has lectured and held research posts at UNSW, University of Canberra, the former QIT and the University of Melbourne. He also has extensive professional advisory experience in Sydney. Professor Blakely is recognised as a world leader in his field. He has published eight books, and his text Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice is widely regarded as the leading international work on suburban economic development, his principal area of specialisation.

2007-10-31T12:21:22+09:00

Chair of Urban and Regional Planning, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning

Blakely

University of Sydney Professor

2007-11-18T12:31:55+09:00

George Bougias is a private sector economist and adviser. He has extensive experience in both public and private sectors, especially with the Victorian Government, and in a range of property consulting roles. His research interests include innovation, economic development, business strategy and property market dynamics/opportunities. He is a regular contributor on these issues.

2008-10-09T05:49:13+08:00

George

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Economist

Bougias

2008-10-09T05:49:13+08:00

James Bradfield Moody is the General Manager, International Development for the CSIRO.  He is responsible for fostering CSIRO’s global development agenda, including access to overseas talent, creating research projects of international significance and helping Australia gain access to foreign knowledge, infrastructure and intellectual property.  Dr Moody was formerly the Director of Business Strategy at CSIRO Land and Water. Dr Moody has worked with the United Nations Environment Programme and was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of their Young Global Leaders.  In 2000, he was named Young Professional Engineer of the Year and was also awarded Young Queenslander of the Year and the following year he was awarded Young Australian of the Year in Science and Technology. Dr Moody was chosen by Engineers Australia to be one of the top 100 most influential engineers in Australia and in 2007 named by Boss Magazine as one of their young executives of the year.  Dr Moody received his PhD in innovation theory from the National Graduate School of Management and was also a chief systems engineer for FedSat, the first Australian Satellite to be launched in thirty years.

2008-03-17T13:14:21+09:00

James

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General Manager, International Development

Bradfield Moody

CSIRO Dr

2008-03-17T13:48:28+09:00

2007-10-31T11:14:34+09:00

Mark

CEO

Bradley

ATP Innovations Pty Ltd Dr

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Michael Burns is an Australian who has been living and working in San Jose, Silicon Valley since 1988. His early work experience in Australia was as a teacher and psychologist where he participated in or led change programs in the public and private sector. After working internally for many years in a number of major technology companies in the US, he established his own consulting company, Burns Business Strategies Inc., in 1996. His clients include National Semiconductor, Netscape/AOL, Apple Computer, Symantec, Cisco Systems, Cirrus Logic, Sun Microsystems and Charles Schwab. He has worked extensively in North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe. Michael Burns' work in the areas of organizational change, global vision, strategic planning and goal alignment have been referred to in "Global Work – Bridging Distance, Culture and Time" by the Institute for the Future and "Corporate Comeback", the story of the turnaround of National Semiconductor. His personal interests include foreign cultures and languages, nature, sport and politics. Michael is interested in discussing insights and best practices from the US business environment and companies in Silicon Valley which have relevance to Australia's current and future challenges. He welcomes hearing your ideas.

2007-11-05T14:59:22+09:00

Michael

Burns

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

<img src="/content_images/300/Ken_Carlaw.jpg" alt="/content_images/300/Ken_Carlaw.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" />Dr Kenneth I Carlaw is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Canada and University of Waikato, New Zealand. He received his PhD from Simon Fraser University, Canada in 2000 & held lecturer and senior lecturer positions at the University of Canterbury, NZ before moving to Canada in 2006. Dr Carlaw has been an economic policy advisor and consultant to among others, Industry Canada, the New Zealand Treasury and Reserve Bank and the Australian Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. He has been an invited expert speaker at forums for APEC and the OECD.

2007-10-31T14:02:55+09:00

Ken

Associate Professor of Economics

Carlaw

University of British Columbia, University of Waikato Dr

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Dr David Charles is the Chairman of Insight Economics Pty Ltd, a specialist public policy consulting firm. Prior to the establishment of Insight Economics, David spent 13 years as a Director of the Allen Consulting Group. Dr Charles joined Allen Consulting in 1993 after holding a number of senior positions in the Commonwealth Public Service, where from 1985-1990 he was the Head of the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce. From 1987- 1990 David was a member of the Austrade Board and during that time gained a close insight into the challenges involved in drawing small and medium sized businesses with potential into entering export markets. During this time he was also a member of the Australian China Council and visited China with a delegation led by the then Chairman, the Hon Gough Whitlam. David holds a PhD in Economics from London University. For more information see <a href="http://www.insighteconomics.com.au/people/cv/DC_CV.pdf">http://www.insighteconomics.com.au/people/cv/DC_CV.pdf</a>

2007-10-17T17:48:29+08:00

David

Charles

Allen Consulting Dr

2008-07-08T12:19:42+08:00

2007-10-26T15:50:53+08:00

Carolyn

Coleman

Senator Minchin's office

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-31T11:01:17+09:00

Peter

Curran

GPC Electronics

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-29T16:27:26+09:00

Deloitte

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

A member of the Australian Business Foundation's Research Advisory Committee, Professor Mark Dodgson is an internationally recognised scholar in the fields of corporate strategies and government policies for technology and innovation.  His most recent accolade was in 2007, when he was awarded the Eureka Prize, Australia's most prestigious science awards, for leadership in Business Innovation.In earlier times, Professor Dodgson worked as a Research Fellow at the Technical Change Centre, London (1983-85). He was Senior Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex (1985-93), and was Professor of Management at the Australian National University (1993-2002). He was co-Founder of the National Graduate School of Management at the ANU and was its Executive Director from 1995-97 and 1999-2001.Professor Dodgson has lectured widely throughout Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and Latin America and has been an invited participant at international conferences in over 35 countries. He has been an advisor and consultant to many European Commission programs and to numerous UK, US, Australian and Asian government departments and agencies.

2007-10-16T15:29:30+08:00

Mark

Director, Technology and Innovation Management Centre

Dodgson

University of Queensland Professor

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Daniel Drache is Director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and Professor of Political Science at York University. He has written widely on globalization and the limits of markets, trade blocs, employment, Harold Innis and economic integration. Presently he is heading up a major project on governance of the public domain after the triumph of markets. The Robarts Centre is engaged in a major interdisciplinary research project examining the incipient concept of the public domain in an era of globalization and exploring its multiple dimensions and overlapping components with respect to social exclusion, identity and the social bond in the hemisphere. He has recently published In Search of North America: Do Borders Matter Any Longer? Wuz Up? (2003). <h3 style="margin: auto 0cm">Research Interests</h3>The political economy of integration and social exclusion; borders and identity; North American integration; cultural discourse and public space; public goods theory and the theory of the public good; and the thought and influence of Harold Innis.  <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/drache/">http://www.yorku.ca/drache/</a>

2007-10-17T16:54:00+08:00

Daniel

Drache

York University, Ontario, Canada Mr

2008-07-08T12:22:41+08:00

Dr Lindy Edwards is the author of “How to Argue with an Economist: Re-Opening Political Debate in Australia” (2nd Edition, 2007) with her area of research specialty being the politics of neo-liberalism.  She was previously an economic adviser in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, a Press Gallery journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and Economic Adviser to then leader of the Australian Democrats, Natasha Stott Despoja.

2008-06-18T05:57:42+08:00

Lindy

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Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Edwards

Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Dr

2008-06-18T05:57:42+08:00

Called "one of the world's reigning strategy gurus" by the Academy of International Business, Professor Michael Enright is a leading expert on competitiveness, regional economic development, and international business strategy. He joined the University of Hong Kong as Sun Hung Kai Professor of Business Administration in 1996 after six years as a professor at the Harvard Business School.   Professor Enright is a Director of Enright, Scott & Associates, a research and strategy consulting firm headquartered in Hong Kong. <a href="http://www.enrightscott.com/">www.enrightscott.com</a>. Pr ofessor Enright directs the Asia-Pacific Competitiveness Program at the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy and was a Founding Director and current Advisory Board Member of The Competitiveness Institute (a global professional body with members in 40 nations). As an advisor, Professor Enright has consulted to companies, governments and multilateral organisations and has appeared in more than 30 countries as an invited speaker and executive educator.

2007-11-15T10:12:55+09:00

Michael

Director

Enright

Enright, Scott & Associates and Professor of Business Administration, University of Hong Kong Professor

2009-02-26T09:44:08+09:00

Award-winning Australian journalist, David Forman (pictured with son Ben), has built a career on probing the increasingly complex world of business seeking answers to that perennial question: "How can we do it better?" Forman was The Australian newspaper's first Canberra business correspondent, reporting from Parliament House on issues affecting the business community across a range of issues - from industry policy formulation to the regulation of business in areas such as competition policy, trade policy and anti-dumping laws. Having previously worked as a senior writer with Business Review Weekly (BRW) magazine in Melbourne covering manufacturing, legal affairs and the wine industry, he later became the Canberra correspondent for BRW covering government/business relations, industry policy, trade, and policy implementation. Forman started his career in business journalism as the editor of the business section of Australia's leading regional daily newspaper, the Geelong Advertiser, after serving as a crime and court reporter for the Border Mail in Albury, NSW. In 1996, Forman was joint winner of the business magazine publishers' Bell award for best feature article for a report examining the power of the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Alan Fels.

2007-10-09T09:59:00+08:00

David

Forman

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

BA(Hons) Coventry, MA(Econ) Manchester, PhD Manchester John Foster has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland since 1991 and was Head of School from 1999 to 2008. He is a Fellow of the Academyof Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Science, President Elect of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, Vice-President of the Queensland Branch of the Economic Society of Australia and a Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. He was an appointed Member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts from 2005 to 2007 and an appointed Member to the Panel Reviewing the National Innovation System in 2008. His current research interests are in the following fields: innovation strategy and policy; the innovation and diffusion of distributed energy generation systems (CSIRO Flagship Program funding); assessing the impact of new carbon trading schemes on the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and on the wider economy (ARC Linkage Grant Funding); applying self-organisation theory to statistical/econometric modelling in the presence of structural transitions (ARC Discovery Grant funding); integrating the energy sector into an evolutionary macroeconomic model of economic growth.

2010-02-17T09:14:54+08:00

John

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Professor of Economics

Foster

University of Queensland Professor

2010-02-17T09:16:16+08:00

2007-10-31T11:53:08+09:00

Linda

Funnell-Milner

2007-11-18T10:48:12+09:00

2007-10-09T12:24:10+08:00

GBN Australia

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-30T17:04:04+09:00

Stephen

Co-chairman

Glanz

Baker & McKenzie

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-16T15:41:40+08:00

Suzy

Goldsmith

Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development in the Department of Management, University of Melbourne

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Before moving to Cambridge, Mr Vadim Grinevich worked as a researcher both in public academic institutions and in the private sector. His current research interests focus on regional and national aspects of economic development, innovation, science and technology policy, university-industry links and entrepreneurship. He also has experience working with large scale datasets at the UK Office for National Statistics. Vadim Grinevich is currently involved at the CBR in an ESRC-funded project on demand pull, supply push and the public space role of higher education institutions in the UK regions.Vadim holds an MPhil Degree in Planning, Growth and Regeneration from the University of Cambridge, as well as a Master's and Post-Master's degree in Economic Theory and International Economics respectively from the Moscow State University.

2007-11-23T12:36:20+09:00

Vadim

Junior Research Fellow

Grinevich

Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, UK Mr

2007-11-23T12:48:04+09:00

Richard Hall’s research interests cover a range of areas across work and organisational studies. His recent research has focused on IT systems and organisational change, professional and managerial identities, knowledge management, organisational discourse, new skills in the services sector, temporary agency work and critical approaches to international HRM. Richard is Co-Director of the Organisational Discourse, Strategy and Change group at the University of Sydney, which is affiliated with the International Centre for Research on Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change. He is also on the editorial board of Australia’s leading employment studies journal, the Journal of Industrial Relations. Prior to joining Work and Organisational Studies in 2004, Richard was Deputy Director (Operations) of ACIRRT, now the Workplace Research Centre, at the University of Sydney. Richard has been a Chief Investigator on a number of major research projects funded by the Australian Research Council, the International Labour Office, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research and the International Centre for VET Teaching and Learning. He is currently undertaking a major research project funded by the Australian Research Council examining the impact of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, such as SAP and PeopleSoft, on the organisation of work. He has published in journals including the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science; Work, Employment and Society; Industrial Relations; New Technology; Work and Employment and Economic and Industrial Democracy and his work has also appeared in a number of international collections. Richard has consulted widely to government agencies, research institutes, employer associations, corporations and unions. He has often been called on to present to business and policy forums, as well as research workshops and briefings. He currently teaches in the areas of organisational change and development, organisational behaviour, the management of technology and human resource management. For more information, see <a href="http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=870">http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=870</a>

2007-10-17T12:18:20+08:00

Richard

Hall

Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research & Training (ACIRRT) of the University of Sydney Dr

2008-07-08T11:11:31+08:00

2009-06-05T06:58:49+08:00

Tim

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Chief Economist

Harcourt

Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)

2009-06-05T06:58:49+08:00

2007-10-16T16:38:49+08:00

Philip

Managing Director

Holt

Australian Business Limited

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Consumer behaviourist Ross Honeywill became an internationally recognised authority on the impact on Australia of a rapidly changing social fabric through his leadership role at KPMG (Asia Pacific) between 1997 and 2001. As a business strategist, he has played a central role in large-scale transformation projects for global brands. Prior to working at KPMG, Ross was a senior executive for national retail brands. He has won business and marketing awards in the tourism, property development, telecommunications, and retail sectors.Both former directors of KPMG Consulting (Asia Pacific) Ross Honeywill and Verity Byth founded the Centre for Customer Strategy in 2001 to continue their research linking discretionary spending and psychological profiles so that practical knowledge about consumer value would be available. They are both foundation directors of Neo Group which commercialises the research knowledge of Centre for Customer Strategy.

2007-10-31T13:59:13+09:00

Ross

Foundation Director

Honeywill

Neo Group

2008-10-09T10:09:13+08:00

2007-10-24T11:27:24+08:00

Rina

Managing Director

Hore

BOSCO Manufacturing

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-30T17:06:41+09:00

Jay

Partner

Horton

PricewaterhouseCoopers

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Currently Professorial Fellow at Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) and Director of the Centre's <a href="http://www.cfses.com/">Information Technologies and the Information Economy Program</a>, John has had a number of years experience in information technology policy, science and technology policy and more general industry policy related economic research. He has published and spoken widely, and is a regular consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. In 1998, John was awarded a National Australia Day Council, Australia Day Medal for his contribution to IT industry policy development.Since graduating Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) from the University of Queensland, John has held the positions of: <ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT)  where he was the leader and coordinator of the centre’s Computer Software and Services Research Program and editor of the widely circulated CIRCIT Newsletter; </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">Principal Economist at the Bureau of Industry Economics (BIE)  where he coordinated a research program focusing on communication and information technology policy issues and participated in the Bureau’s infrastructure services benchmarking program; </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">Adviser, Information Industries Policy at the Australian Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Tourism (DIST)  where he played a role in the development of policy within the Information Industries Taskforce and in the production of the ‘Goldsworthy report’: The Information Economy: The Way Ahead, Report of the National Information Industries Taskforce (July 1997); </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">Principal Adviser, State Development Policy with the Victorian Department of State Development  where he took a lead role in directing the Department’s policy research and development agenda; and</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">Associate Director, Australian Expert Group in Industry Studies (AEGIS), University of Western Sydney.</li></ul>John has also been actively involved in a number of professional and industry bodies. Over recent years he has been: <ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">Information Sciences correspondent for Search, the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS);</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">An executive member of the Information Industries Roundtable (IIR), which operates as Australia's IT users' peak body under the umbrella of the Federal Department of Industry;</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">A member of a World Bank expert panel on Knowledge Assessment methodologies for the Asia-Pacific region; </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">A member of the editorial board of <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/locate/telpol/">Telecommunications Policy</a>; and</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">A member of the Communications, Information Technology and E-commerce Committee (CITEC) of Standards Australia. </li></ul>

2007-10-17T16:05:05+08:00

John

Houghton

Victoria University Professor

2008-07-08T11:35:17+08:00

<div class="summary">John Howkins visited Australia in August 2002 courtesy of the British Council as part of National Science Week. He has extensive experience at the forefront of the mulitmedia, entertainment and communications industries. </div><div class="content">John Howkins has been writing about the creative economy for many years. He is Chairman of Tornado Productions Ltd, a London-based webcasting company. He is a director of Equator Group plc, Television Investments Ltd, EveryIdea Ltd and World Learning Network Ltd. He was associated with Home Box Office (HBO) and Time Warner from 1981-1996, setting up companies to make and distribute TV programming. Through ITR he has advised numerous organisations and corporations including Accenture, BBC, Coopers & Lybrand, European Commission, IBM, KPMG, Sky TV, etc. He has worked for the Governments of Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Singapore, UK, USA and 15 other countries. He has worked widely in Eastern Europe. He is Deputy Chairman of the British Screen Advisory Council, the UK's leading industry forum for the moving image. He is a former Chairman of the London Film School (and remains a Governor), Chairman of the Advisory Board to CREATEC and Vice Chairman of the Association of Independent Producers. He is a former Executive Director of the International Institute of Communications, with members in over 100 countries. He was the Conference Coordinator of the 1998 European Audiovisual Conference, co-hosted by the European Commission and UK Government. He is the author of several books, including 'Understanding Television' (1974); 'Communications in China' (1982); 'New Technologies, New Policies', (1983); 'Four Global Scenarios on Information' (1997), translated into French (1997) and Spanish (1998); and 'The Creative Economy' (2001). He is a former Editor of 'InterMedia', Editor of the 'National Electronics Review', Editor of 'Vision', TV Editor of 'Time Out', and a regular contributor to 'The Sunday Times', 'The Economist', 'Harpers & Queen' and other publications. He is the UK representative of the Transatlantic Dialogue on Broadcasting and the Information Society (TADOBATIS) and has advised Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe on media legislation. You can contact John at howkins@compuserve.com </div>

2007-10-26T17:28:19+08:00

John

Howkins

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Professor Graham Hubbard is  Professor of Strategic Management at the Adelaide University School of Business. He was previously Head of School of the Graduate School of Business and has also been Professor of Strategic Management at Mt Eliza Business School, Visiting Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and head of the Marketing Group at RMIT University, as well as working at a number of other Australian universities. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including The First XI: Winning Organisations in Australia  (2nd ed) (2007, Wiley), Strategic Management: Thinking, Analysis and Action (3rd  ed, 2008, Pearson) and three books of case studies of real organisations designed for MBA and executive programs.He has worked for Alcoa of Australia and Coopers and Lybrand in the UK and has a private consulting practice in strategic management for major organisations in Australia.Professor Hubbard's particular research interests are in understanding the nature of ‘successful’ organisations, organisational performance measurement, corporate diversification and mergers and acquisitions.

2008-03-04T09:42:12+09:00

Graham

105

Professor of Strategic Management

Hubbard

Adelaide University School of Business Professor

2009-05-08T13:41:37+08:00

Professor Alan Hughes is Director of the Centre for Business Research and Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, UK. Professor Hughes has provided policy advice and consultancy to influential groups including the UN World Institute for Development Economics Research, the Bank of England, HM Treasury, HM Inland Revenue, Eurostat and the International Labour Organisation. In the past 10 years Professor Hughes has published over 200 books, articles and chapters in books on these topics.  His research interests include: - measurement and evaluation of science, industrial and business support policy; - innovation and financial characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises; - analysis of the relationship between corporate takeover, corporate governance, executive pay and business performance; and - the relationship between law and economics in the analysis of corporate organisation and performance.

2007-10-09T12:40:19+08:00

Alan

Director, Centre for Business Research

Hughes

University of Cambridge, UK Professor

2008-03-17T11:19:24+09:00

Dr Peter Innes teaches in research methods specialising in computer assisted analysis of quantitative and qualitative data at the University of Queensland Business School. Peter has previously worked for SPSS Australasia as an external consultant assisting a diverse range of public and private organisations. His PhD (University of London, 2003) research focused on downsizing among professionals in large Australian firms from 1990 to 1999. A neo-institutional and economics approach were used to highlight the role of rational and normative elements in determining organisational change over time.Peter's teaching and research interests include Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour, and Organisational Theory.

2007-10-16T15:29:58+08:00

Peter

Innes

University of Queensland Dr

2008-05-01T14:27:18+08:00

2007-10-26T17:09:57+08:00

INSTATE

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2008-05-01T14:54:57+08:00

111

Intellectual Capital Services Ltd

2008-05-01T14:54:57+08:00

2007-10-26T15:27:19+08:00

Ron

Johnson

Professor

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Tim Kastelle graduated from Princeton University with a degree in economics. He has worked in marketing and management positions in a variety of industries including radio, office equipment, industrial chemicals, higher education and software.  After completing his MBA (Advanced) at the UQ Business School, Tim began his PhD research on applying evolutionary economics to the management of firms. His research program is primarily concerned with investigating the implications of viewing the economy and firms as complex evolving systems. The topic of his doctoral research was “Analysing the Evolution of International Trade: A Complex Networks Approach”, and the work in it has applications in innovation studies, strategic management and evolutionary economics.  Tim’s work has appeared in leading conferences and journals, such as a recently accepted article in the leading journal Research Policy.

2008-03-04T10:52:49+09:00

Tim

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Lecturer in Innovation Management

Kastelle

University of Queensland Business School Dr

2008-10-09T04:46:23+08:00

2007-10-26T16:45:00+08:00

Peter

Managing Director

Kearns

Global Learning Services

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Narelle Kennedy is founding Chief Executive of the Australian Business Foundation, an independent organisation undertaking evidence-based research to deliver fresh insights and practical intelligence to boost Australia’s capabilities and global competitiveness. Narelle has had a working history that spans both the public and private sectors in NSW, Victoria and South Australia, through which she has developed expertise in both economic and social development policies, including on business regulation, regional development, industry clustering and competition policy. She is regularly sought as an expert commentator on emerging business issues, innovation and opportunities from the knowledge economy. Narelle is a founding member of the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Business, a member of Chief Executive Women, a Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre, member of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Narelle was a member of the Federal Government’s expert panel reviewing Australia’s Innovation System and was one of the top 1000 individuals chosen to participate in the Australia 2020 Summit convened by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in April 2008. She holds positions on various Boards and Advisory Councils including MTC Work Solutions and the Standards Australia Advisory Board and has represented Australia at the Business Advisory Committee to the OECD. Narelle has a first class Honours Degree in Social Studies from the University of Sydney, where she won the Frances Mary Gillespie Prize for the top student in her graduating class. Narelle was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001.

2007-10-08T18:15:48+08:00

Narelle

Chief Executive

Kennedy

Australian Business Foundation

2008-12-11T14:23:33+09:00

Anand Kulkarni is a senior economist with extensive experience in both State and Commonwealth Governments, advising on industry development and innovation policy among other things. His research interests include the rise of China and India, institutional economics and knowledge flows. He has published on these issues.The views expressed in his published work are those of the author(s) alone.

2008-10-09T05:47:35+08:00

Anand

122

Economist

Kulkarni

2008-10-09T05:48:06+08:00

Currently Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Macquarie University, Dr John Langdale has research and teaching interests in the geography of economic restructuring.  He has published extensively in international academic and policy journals. Dr Langdale has undertaken consultancies for Australian government departments, local councils, telecommunications carriers and private firms. IIn July 1991, he was invited by Telstra Australia to join a Committee to review research grant applications for the Telstra Fund for Social and Policy Research in Telecommunications which he chaired from 1994 to 1996.  For a full biography see <a href="http://www.humgeog.mq.edu.au/staff/langdale.htm">http://www.humgeog.mq.edu.au/staff/langdale.htm</a>

2007-10-17T12:13:40+08:00

John

Langdale

Macquarie University Dr

2008-07-05T10:58:33+08:00

Mr Adam Liberman has been General Counsel for CSIRO since August 2006, in which role he provides legal advice and support to the CSIRO Chief Executive, Board and Executive Team members. He has over 30 years of experience in law, specialising in intellectual property and its use in commercial and corporate contexts. Adam has advised a wide spectrum of parties involved in the innovation process, including research institutes, start ups, venture capitalists, investment banks, SMEs, large Australian and multinational corporations on transaction and governance issues.  Prior to joining CSIRO, Mr Liberman was most recently a partner at Freehills in the Corporate section. Mr Liberman has written and spoken widely on intellectual property, its management and commercialisation including at the request of organisations such as the Australian Graduate School of Management and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (in Indonesia, India and Singapore).  He is Secretary of Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), the largest professional body worldwide dealing with intellectual property and commercialisation issues, with over 12,000 members in 80 countries.

2007-10-09T09:54:27+08:00

Adam

General Counsel

Liberman

CSIRO Mr

2007-11-18T09:17:27+09:00

Professor Peter Liesch joined The University of Queensland in 1999 after several years at The University of Tasmania where he was Professor of Management in International Business and Head of the School of Management. At The University of Queensland, he has served as Head of the previous, pre-merger School of Management and Director of the MBA Program. Professor Peter Liesch researches the processes and nature of the internationalisation of the firm, both large and small firms. He also investigates the nature of international business operations abroad, from export through to wholly-owned subsidiaries. The manner in which interfirm and intrafirm exchange is undertaken through these international operations is part of his research.His Ph.D in Economics, written on the topic of government mandated-countertrade, was awarded by The University of Queensland and he has published a book by this title. He has published many book chapters, and widely in the academic journals which include: Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Prometheus, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Innovation Management, International Marketing Review and others. Professor Liesch serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of International Management. He is a Professional Member of the Economic Society of Australia (Qld. Inc) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. His primary research interests include: internationalisation of the firm (particularly the smaller firm), alternative systems of inter-firm exchange, and international business operations in their diversity, both their strategies and organisational forms. He has interests in research methodology. Professor Liesch is a CI on a current ARC Discovery Grant researching the early and rapid internationalisation of the firm, the so-called born global phenomenon. Professor Liesch has served on many university committees, and is a current member of The University of Queensland Standing Committee of its Academic Board.

2007-10-16T12:34:09+08:00

Peter

Professor of International Business and Leader of the Enterprise and International Business Cluster

Liesch

University of Queensland Business School Professor

2008-05-01T13:45:55+08:00

Sam Macaulay's research is aimed at uncovering the complex evolutionary mechanisms behind the emergence of different patterns of innovation within organisations. Within his PhD, Sam is collaborating with a number of multinational firms involved in the engineering industry to investigate how the structure of organisational networks influences problem solving & innovation.  Sam prebiously worked as a researcher in the social science stream of CSIRO’s Intelligent Grid Project and as a consultant on a range of projects related to organisational change and inter-organisational collaboration.

2008-03-03T13:25:14+09:00

Sam

103

PhD Student

MacAulay

University of Queensland & the Australian Research Council Centre for Complex Systems Mr

2008-09-25T14:36:18+08:00

2007-10-26T15:18:35+08:00

Deirdre

WorkplaceInfo journalist

Mahoney

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Dr Karen Manley is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Construction Management and Property, Queensland University of Technology.  Karen was the Project Leader for the BRITE Project, the major initiative of the Construction Innovation Cooperative Research Centre (CRC CI) which was successfully completed in late 2007.Karen has written widely on the topic of innovation in the building and construction industry. For more information see <a href="http://www.brite.crcci.info/about_us/manley_cv.pdf">http://www.brite.crcci.info/about_us/manley_cv.pdf</a>

2007-10-17T16:14:10+08:00

Karen

Manley

Australian Expert Group on Industry Studies, University of Western Sydney Dr

2008-07-08T11:57:02+08:00

Professor Jane Marceau has recently retired from full time academic work and is now a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales.  Her most recent positions include Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), Professor of Management and Founding Director, Australian Expert Group in Industry Studies (AEGIS), University of Western Sydney. She joined UNSW as an Adjunct Professor in 2004.She continues to be a frequent consultant and policy adviser to governments and business in Australia. Her work on innovation, notably via The High Road or the Low Road? Alternatives for Australia’s Future (1997, with K. Manley and D. Sicklen), was the major catalyst for the national debate on innovation in Australia. She has written many reports for governments and business associations in Australia on a wide range of industries (from toolmaking to health, from building and construction to processed food) and science and technology policies which could aid in their development. Since 1998 she has led the development of the innovative ‘product system’ approach to understanding the dynamics of industry development and innovation, an approach which provided much of the inspiration for the federal government’s Action Agenda (industry development) program; has held ARC grants researching the adoption of new competitive strategies involving the addition of a new and ever-wider range of services to their products by manufacturing firms and of firms’ use of knowledge-intensive services and the linked public-private ‘hybridisation’ of public sector research. Most recently, she has been joint leader of two studies of scientists and their careers, motivations and networking, both national and international, as they act as innovation personnel.Her recent public and professional innovation policy and science-related activities include membership of the Australian Labor Party’s Knowledge Nation Taskforce 2000-2001, co-authorship of the major background paper for the National Innovation Summit, 2000, membership of the federal government’s Strategic Advisers Group, Australian Science Capability Review 2000-2001, and membership of the New South Wales Innovation Council.In recent years, Jane has been best known as an innovation and technology policy analyst but has had a very long term interest in urban matters as cities are major sites for innovation and employment. When living in Europe she led a 14 country OECD project on education, employment and local initiatives in urban areas and created an urban studies centre at the University of Liverpool.She is presently a Member of the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Strategy Reference Panel advising on the future development of Sydney. She has special responsibility for technology, industry and employment.Professor Marceau has a BA - London School of Economics and a PhD - University of Cambridge.

2007-10-17T16:13:47+08:00

Jane

Marceau

Professor

2008-07-10T19:06:42+08:00

A graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Professor Marsh is a former Senior Fellow of the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and prior to that was an Associate Professor of the Australian Graduate School of Management, Research Director of the Liberal Party of Australia, an Associate at McKinsey & Co, and Private Secretary to the Minister for Defence. Professor Marsh has been a prolific contributor to public discussion about the role of government for over 20 years. For more information see <a href="http://www.anzsog.edu.au/staff/staff_marsh.php">http://www.anzsog.edu.au/staff/staff_marsh.php</a>

2007-10-17T12:14:55+08:00

Ian

ANZSOG Chair of Public Management

Marsh

University of Sydney Professor

2008-07-08T11:38:00+08:00

Professor John A. Mathews holds the Chair of Strategic Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney.  He has been a member of the Faculty at Macquarie since June 1998, where he teaches courses in Strategic Management, Competition and Strategy in Asia-Pacific, and Global Strategic Management, in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong. John holds a PhD from Imperial College, London, in cybernetics theory; and earned a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and MSc from Imperial College. Prior to taking up an academic appointment at the University of New South Wales in 1990, he worked in industry and government for the State of Victoria, on industry development strategies. He has taught visiting programs at the National Graduate School of Management, ANU, Canberra; at the Stockholm School of Economics; at the Faculty of Business Administration at National University of Singapore, at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University; at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, at the LUISS university in Rome, and in the EMBA program, Seoul.Professor Mathews' research interests focus on the competitive dynamics of international business, the evolution of technologies and their strategic management, and the rise of new high technology industries.  For more information on his many publications see <a href="http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/index.cfm?ObjectID=AAD05150-85DD-4C12-A87B2EEC931795AD">http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/index.cfm?ObjectID=AAD05150-85DD-4C12-A87B2EEC931795AD</a>

2007-10-17T16:50:54+08:00

John

Mathews

Macquarie Graduate School of Management Professor

2008-07-08T12:01:38+08:00

2007-10-30T17:08:58+09:00

Justin

McCarthy

Westpac Business Banking

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Dr Judith McNeill is a Research Fellow and Project Director at the Institute for Rural Futures and an economist with a wide range of experience in Commonweath and State Treasuries, university teaching and environmental and regional economic development research.  She has completed research projects in industrial ecology, socio-economic impact analysis, ecological economics, infrastructure finance, federal-state financial relations, cost benefit analysis and e-commerce.  Since 1991, she has been lecturing in economics, firstly at  the UNE's Coffs Harbour campus and later in Armidale. Judith is currently a post-doctoral research fellow specialising in ecological economics – a branch of economics which integrates ecology and economics. She is particularly interested in sustainable development policy issues, corporate sustainability reporting and regional development. She also teaches a course in Sustainable Development and Competitive Advantage at QUT. For more information see <a href="http://www.ruralfutures.une.edu.au/downloads/CVJM_312.pdf">http://www.ruralfutures.une.edu.au/downloads/CVJM_312.pdf</a>

2007-10-17T12:22:08+08:00

Judith

McNeill

University of New England

2008-07-08T11:32:04+08:00

2010-02-17T11:51:19+08:00

Stan

166

Metcalfe

University of Manchaster, Manchester, UK Professor

2010-02-17T11:51:19+08:00

2007-12-10T11:34:42+09:00

Stuart

100

Middleton

University of Queensland Business School Dr

2007-12-10T11:34:42+09:00

2009-05-27T14:32:11+08:00

Stephen

147

Chairman

Mills

Australian Business Foundation

2009-05-27T15:20:52+08:00

2007-10-26T16:32:19+08:00

Nick

Minister

Minchin

Industry Science and Resources Senator

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-17T12:20:32+08:00

National Economics

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-30T17:18:54+09:00

Alistair

Project Manager

Nolan

the OECD Forum on Entrepreneurship

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Ms Susan Oliver is executive director wwITe Pty Limited and Governor of The Smith Family Ltd, as well as a non-executive director of MBF Australia Ltd, non-executive director of Programmed Maintenance Services Limited, non-executive director of Methodist Ladies College Limited.She is a former Senior Manager of Andersen Consulting and former Managing Director of the Australian Commission for the Future Limited and was previously chairman of ScreenSound Australia, a founding Director of the Big Issue Australia, Managing Director of the Australian Commission for the Future, a member of the Victorian Premiers Multimedia Taskforce, Director of Interact Events, Chair of FHA Design P/L and a Director of the Victorian Institute of Marine Sciences. She was until mid 1996 a senior manager at Andersen Consulting and headed up an in-house research and development team covering projects in Australia and Asia Pacific in health futures, eCommerce, organising to compete globally and to compete in Asia, and several banking and finance sector futures studies. Prior to this Susan held senior managerial positions in business consulting and in the public service. Susan is a strategic planner and futurist with a keen interest in technology and its relevance to society and business. She was the publisher of 21C, the magazine of the Australian Commission for the Future, is published in business journals and newspapers including Pretext, and was the principal author of Arts 21, the vision for the development of arts and cultural industries in Victoria. She led the project team that developed the use concept for Federation Square, a major city precinct redevelopment in Melbourne.

2007-10-24T11:27:11+08:00

Susan

Executive Director

Oliver

wwITe Pty Ltd Ms

2009-07-21T07:58:59+08:00

2007-10-30T16:53:26+09:00

Paul

General Manager for Policy and Communications

Orton

Australian Business Limited

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Nick is a Partner for the Shaper Group, an Australian firm that helps its clients to grow, thrive and prosper by using the principles of sustainability as a core business strategy.  Nick’s drive is fueled by a passion for proving that we can do well by doing good. A mechatronic engineer and mathematical scientist by background, Nick has spent almost a decade working with companies, governments, non-for-profits and entrepreneurs in Australia and around the world to define and realise the business case for sustainable practices.  Nick has managed the development of sustainable business strategies, climate change strategies, risk assessments and research projects across a variety of industry sectors, including Agribusiness, Automotive, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investment, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Property, State Government and Urban Development sectors.  In amongst his current book of Shaper Group clients, Nick and business partner Dan Atkins are advisors to the World Economic Forum’s Driving Sustainable Consumption Project, which is working with some of the world’s most influential companies to develop sustainable business models that are fundamentally more competitive in the market.  In 2006, Nick was awarded the inaugural Southcott Scholarship, offered by the University of South Australia to undertake PhD research on sustainability in engineering and industry. Nick’s research involves thedevelopment of a risk management methodology for assessing and minimising sustainability business risks from designing and providing sustainable products and services. Through this and other research Nick’s work has been well-published. In 2006 Nick was announced Young South Australian of the Year, in 2007 was awarded the British Council Eureka Prize for Young Leaders in Environmental Issues & Climate Change, and in 2008 the Australian Davos Connection’s Future Summit Leadership Award and UNESCO Adelaide Award.

2010-01-20T12:58:27+08:00

Nick

162

Partner

Palousis

Shaper Group Mr

2010-01-20T13:11:06+08:00

2007-10-26T15:51:33+08:00

Bob

Pegler

Industry, Science and Resources

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-16T15:37:29+08:00

Colin

Ramsay

The Australian Stock Exchange

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-30T16:56:04+09:00

Mark

Australian Chief Economist

Rider

UBS Warburg

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-31T11:14:00+09:00

David

Robinson

Bishop Manufacturing Technology Ltd

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Göran Roos is one of the founders of the modern field of intellectual capital and has published books, articles and case studies on the subject as well as on the wider subject of strategy. Göran's consulting experience in this field ranges across both public and private sectors in over 40 countries.  Göran has held management positions in both American and European firms and have lived in Sweden, Norway, Japan, France and US before moving to England. He holds an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Management Consultancy from Henley Management College, Henley-on-Thames, England, an MBA in Strategy from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and a MSc in Engineering Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. Göran has founded or co-founded, managed and in some cases successfully divested 15 companies during 20 years. The companies have all been knowledge based and have had or have domicile in UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Australia and the US. Göran holds academic positions at Cranfield University's Centre for Business Performance, Helsinki School of Economics' Centre for Executive Education in Finland and Mt. Eliza Business School in Australia. Göran has previously held positions at the Norwegian School of Management, Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania and the Institute for Policy Science in Japan. Göran's principal interests lie in helping clients extracting more value from their intangible assets.

2007-10-16T15:31:25+08:00

Göran

Founder

Roos

Intellectual Capital Services Ltd Professor

2007-11-19T14:18:07+09:00

During his academic career Professor Samson has consulted to senior executives in most manufacturing industries and numerous service sector organisations. He regularly provides industry and executive seminars and has participated in a number of committees and industry bodies including appointment as a member of the Australian Manufacturing Council and the Commonwealth Government Industry Task Force on Leadership and Management. He serves as a Board Member of the Transport Accident Commission. Danny has conducted many short courses in engineering and manufacturing management, executive seminars in decision analysis, total quality, logistics and statistical analysis. His particular research interest is in the competitiveness of organisations, and the effective use of systems to achieve this competitiveness. Danny has published in a wide variety of journals which reflect the breadth of his research interests and has also published a number of books in recent years. Danny Samson is Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne, Associate Dean (Development) of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce and Director of the Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development there. He has an honours degree in chemical engineering and a PhD in management from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

2007-10-16T15:43:42+08:00

Danny

Samson

Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development in the Department of Management, University of Melbourne Professor

2008-06-24T11:36:42+08:00

2007-10-16T15:39:49+08:00

Don

Scott-Kemmis

ANU National Graduate School of Management

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-26T17:10:13+08:00

SGS

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-17T16:08:47+08:00

Brendan

Shaw

AGSM, University of New South Wales

2008-07-08T11:42:08+08:00

Derek Sicklen is currently Vice President, Alternative Asset Management for JP Morgan & Co.  He has held several senior marketing positions, achieving record growth in market share in both retail and institutional business, and also served as a securities analyst in a private investment company. He was a proprietary trader for a US bank before successfully establishing his own business as an economic consultant and proprietary investor. He resumed his advisory functions in 1998 when he headed the Asian futures business of Jardine Fleming, the profitability of which he increased six-fold in under three years. Derek managed 60 staff in six countries, having set up new operations in Korea and India. From 2001 to 2004 he was Asian head for JPMorgan's hedge fund of funds business with responsibility for asset raising and first round hedge fund manager due diligence.He raised assets in Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Japan. He conducted hedge fund manager due diligence in four countries across a range of hedge fund strategies. Over this period Derek developed an earnings and value based quantitative programme for application to US stocks. Derek holds a B.Ec. and a Dip.Ed. from the University of Sydney. He has been a past Director of the Sydney Futures Exchange and has held licences from securities regulators in Australia and Hong Kong. <a href="http://platypuscap.com/people.aspx">http://platypuscap.com/people.aspx</a>

2007-10-17T17:50:13+08:00

Derek

Sicklen

2008-07-08T12:11:04+08:00

Current AppointmentProfessor of Innovation, Australian Innovation Research Centre.  <a href="http://www.airc.net.au/index.php">http://www.airc.net.au/index.php</a>Adjunct Professor of Innovation, Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.Current ResearchProfessor Keith Smith has worked extensively on issues related to the economics of innovation.His work has concentrated on the nature and dynamics of innovation processes, on innovation systems theories, on innovation in low-technology industries, innovation and growth in resource-based economies, and the development and analysis of innovation indicators. Prof Smith also works on the foundations of public policies supporting innovation.Prof Smith has consulted extensively for companies and policy agencies, including transnational agencies such as the OECD and the European Commission.Professional ActivitiesEuropean Commission at the Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain, on policy issues related to the European Research Area.Professor at the Institute for New Technologies, United Nations University, in the Netherlands, 2001-2003. Professor of Economics of Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1995-2001Director of the Group for Studies in Technology, Innovation and Economic Policy (STEP) in Oslo (1991-2000)He has been a Visiting Professor at Chalmers University, Gothenberg, Sweden; the ANU, Canberra, and the University of Western Sydney.

2007-10-16T15:33:52+08:00

Keith

Chair in Innovation

Smith

School of Management, University of Tasmania Professor

2008-06-24T11:01:20+08:00

2007-10-26T16:41:14+08:00

Dale

Spender

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Marcus Spiller is Director of SGS Economics & Planning Pty Ltd, a specialist economics and urban policy consultancy with offices around Australia. His consulting experience spans land economics, regional development, housing policy, infrastructure funding and policy co-ordination systems. He has taken up secondments as lecturer in urban economics at Melbourne University, adviser to the Minister for Planning and Housing in Victoria and senior executive in the Queensland Department of Housing, Local Government and Planning. He is an Adjunct Professor in Urban Management at the University of Canberra and a former National President of the Planning Institute of Australia. He is also a Director of VicUrban, the Victorian Government’s land development company.

2007-10-31T12:26:50+09:00

Marc

Director

Spiller

SGS Economics & Planning Ltd

2008-10-09T05:13:25+08:00

Richard joined the Rural Development Centre in 1985.  Since 2000, he has been the program director of the Centre, now known as the Institute for Rural Futures.  Richard has undertaken a wide range of research on farm adjustment, the economic linkages between primary industries and rural communities, socio-economic change in rural communities, the measurement of socio-economic well-being in rural Australia, regional economic development, the role of social capital in rural community development, and the commercial potential of native plant and animal species.  He also currently teaches natural resource economics in the School of Economics at UNE. For more information see <a href="http://www.ruralfutures.une.edu.au/downloads/CVRS_259.pdf">http://www.ruralfutures.une.edu.au/downloads/CVRS_259.pdf</a>

2007-10-17T12:21:33+08:00

Richard

Stayner

Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England Mr

2008-07-08T11:24:13+08:00

Dr John Steen holds PhDs from the University of Tasmania (Biochemistry) and the University of Queensland (Strategic Management). Prior to becoming a lecturer in business strategy, he was involved full time in medical research. Most recently he has applied his interest in risk and uncertainty management to an international project researching the impact of terrorism upon corporate activity. Elements of this work were presented to a US Congress committee in 2005 and were also the subject of three interviews on ABC Radio National during 2005.He is currently involved in a major collaboration with colleagues at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, on methodologies for understanding processes of innovation and strategic change.

2008-02-18T12:22:31+09:00

John

102

Senior Lecturer (Strategy)

Steen

University of Queensland Business School Dr

2008-03-04T16:07:01+09:00

Dr Matthew Steen performs the role of Policy Adviser - Tax & Competitiveness for the NSW Business Chamber, having previously worked as Research Analyst for the Australian Business Foundation.'  As well as having written contributions in the fields of economic methodology, macroeconomics, industrial economics and the history of economic thought, Dr Steen brings several years of experience in teaching courses in economics, political economy, international business and industrial relations, at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels.  In 2005, Dr Steen completed his doctoral dissertation: 'Neomercantilist and Post Keynesian Approaches to State Intervention in Advanced-Capitalist Economies’. A central focus of his thesis was to challenge the traditional view that discrete national economies ought to be the primary focus for public policymaking.  Dr Steen is currently working on a book to be published by UK publisher Edward Elgar, under the title: 'The Fusion of Capital across Borders: Challenges for Policymaking'.

2007-10-16T12:26:11+08:00

Matthew

Policy Adviser - Tax & competitiveness

Steen

NSW Business Chamber Dr

2008-07-31T10:23:05+08:00

2007-10-31T11:15:17+09:00

Andrew

Managing Partner

Stevens

Business Consulting Services, IBM Australia

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

Dr Keith Suter is consultant on strategic planning and a futurist with a reputation which is recognised worldwide. A weekly guest on radio station 2GB and Foreign Affairs Editor on Channel 7's 'Sunrise' program, as the resident expert on international issues affecting Australian business and society. Dr Keith Suter is among the elite thinkers and influencers internationally as a member of the most prestigious global think tank in the world, The Club of Rome, The club has only 100 members and includes people like Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Gates, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. Among other top level positions, his positions include: Consultant on Social Policy at Wesley Mission Sydney, Australia. President of the United Nations Association (NSW) and President of the Society for International Development (Sydney Chapter). Culture and politics guest speaker at Wesley Institute, Drummoyne NSW, Australia.Dr Keith Suter's first doctorate was in the international law of guerrilla warfare and his second in the economic and social consequences of the arms race. His Masters degree is in religious studies and was on the role of the Uniting Church in the debate over economic justice. Dr Keith Suter received the Australian Government's Peace Medal in 1986: the International Year of Peace. He was Rostrum's "Communicator of the Year" in 1995, and in 1994, he was voted "Australian Communicator of the Year". He was made a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow in 1997 in recognition of his work for international co-operation. Keith Suter's latest book published in 2008 "All about Terrorism: Everything you were afraid to ask"

1965-10-11T13:06:03+08:00

Keith

Broadcaster & social commentator

Suter

2009-07-17T09:11:14+08:00

Dr Thorburn is Managing Director & principal of Innovation Dynamics Pty Ltd and founder of Advance® Consulting & Evaluation. She has 15 years experience in financial management, strategic planning, technology transfer, innovation & research commercialisation in the private sector, CSIRO & government. Formal qualifications in science, legal studies & economic geography have been supplemented by ongoing training in intellectual property protection and management; marketing and media relations; and project and research management. She continues to be a Research Associate at Macquarie University and in 2004 was appointed Adjunct Professor in commercialisation at the University of Canberra. Dr Thorburn is a past Director of The Australian Biotechnology Association (now AusBiotech Ltd). In 2001 she was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the University of Ulster Research Park in Northern Ireland. In 2002 she was an ACT finalist in the Business Owners' category of the Telstra Business Women's Award. In 2004 her first company, Advance Consulting and Evaluation, was an ACT finalist in the Telstra Small Business Awards (Micro-business category). Dr Thorburn was also awarded the Telstra ACT Businesswoman of the Year Award for 2004. <a href="http://www.complispace.com.au/InnovationDynamics">http://www.complispace.com.au/InnovationDynamics</a>

2007-10-17T12:13:01+08:00

Lyndal

Thorburn

Innovation Dynamics Pty Ltd Dr

2008-06-27T13:15:04+08:00

2007-10-16T16:35:59+08:00

Evan

Thornley

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2007-10-26T15:29:10+08:00

Carmel

Timmins

Opportunity Coaching

2007-11-16T12:10:30+09:00

2009-06-03T14:17:29+08:00

Tanya

148

Solicitor & Management Consultant

van der Wall

2009-06-04T10:14:29+08:00

Michael Vitale is an Adjunct Professor at Melbourne Business School and teaches Managing Biotechnology.  He currently holds a joint professorial appointment at the Melbourne Business School and the Australia New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). At MBS, he is the director of the innovation research program and focuses his teaching, research, and consulting on commercialisation of innovation, particularly in biotechnology.  At ANZSOG, Michael focuses on IT governance and innovation in the public sector. He is the chairman of a public biotechnology firm and a member of the advisory board of a private biotech. Michael was Dean and Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) in 2001 – 2002 and was formerly a Professor in the Centre for Management of IT at the Melbourne Business School and the Foundation Professor of Information Systems and Head of the Information Systems Department at the University of Melbourne.Prior to coming to Australia, he was a Fellow at the Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation in Boston and an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His industry experience includes four years as Vice President of Technology and Corporate Services at the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Michael Vitale has a PhD from Dartmouth, an MBA from Harvard and a BA from Oakland University.

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Michael

Vitale

Australian Graduate School of Management Professor

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Jay

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Weerawardena

University of Queensland Business School Dr

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Jonathan

West

Professor

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Katherine

Deputy Chairman

Woodthorpe

Australian Business Foundation

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Sandra

Yates

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