AISR Seminar: After the Reviews: Building Innovative Capability in Organisations with Roy Green

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After the Reviews: Building Innovative Capability in Organisations with Roy Green

Summary

With the reviews of the national innovation system, cooperative research centres, autos, and the textile, clothing and footwear industries published, what next? Assuming that many of the recommendations will be adopted by the federal government, policy success will be judged by the translation of agreed national innovation objectives into action at the level of firms and organisations, addressing the challenges of both productivity growth and social inclusion in an increasingly knowledge-based economy. It is argued that this in turn will depend not just on the institutional framework of innovation but also on the development of 'innovative capability' by management and workforces both in organisations themselves and in the broader networks and value chains which provide new opportunities for achieving competitive advantage in global markets.

Speaker details:
Roy Green is currently Dean and Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He took his undergraduate degrees at the University of Adelaide and a PhD in economics at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Research Fellow during the 1980s, and worked subsequently in universities and government in Australia, the UK and Ireland.

Back in Australia since early 2006, Professor Green is an executive member of the Australian Business Deans Council and a board member of the Society for Knowledge Economics, NSW manufacturing Council, South Australian Training and Skills Commission and Public Sector Management Commission, and he was lead
author of the Business Council of Australia's report, `New Pathways to Prosperity: An Innovation Framework for Australia'.

Most recently, he was appointed by the Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and
Research to review the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear industries and to participate in the review of Australia's National Innovation System. He was also appointed by the Minister to chair the board of the Innovative Regions Centre, with five locations around Australia, as part of the Federal Government's Enterprise Connect initiative.