Professor John Foster, Professor of Economics, University of Queensland
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.
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Systems thinking, market failure and the development of innovation policy: The case for Australia (Report)
Wed Feb 17 2010This latest piece of scholarship from Professor Mark Dodgson, Professor Alan Hughes, Professor John Foster and Professor Stan Metcalfe, all of whom are close associates of the Foundation, argues the case for alternative approaches to innovation policy in Australia.
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Productivity, Creative Destruction and Innovation Policy (Research)
Feb 2010
The Australian Business Foundation is pleased to provoke debate with the latest contribution to its series of Occasional Papers – Productivity, Creative Destruction and Innovation Policy by John Foster, Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland and President-elect of the International J.A. Schumpeter Society.