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Innovation is at the forefront of the debate on lifting Australia and New Zealand's economic performance. This executive workshop is designed for public sector executives with an interest in the dynamics of the innovation economy and in assessing the appropriate roles that government can play as a catalyst in the process.

Government's primary contribution to stimulating innovation is to tune the policy settings around capital allocation, tax, risk management, skill development, knowledge and organisational networks to facilitate where possible and otherwise remove regulatory and other barriers that inhibit private sector action.

This workshop offers an opportunity for a facilitated interactive workshop among policy makers with an interest in how the innovation system works. The program will include offerings on innovation within the public sector itself. It will also canvas key initiatives by Australian governments, including the Cutler Inquiry for the Commonwealth and innovation in state jurisdictions such as Tasmania and South Australia. The forum combines presentations on core concepts and peer-to-peer learning through discussion of industry case studies and innovation.

Who should attend?

Participants will come from departments or agencies across a broad range of roles:

• generalists ranging from Deputy Secretary level (or equivalent) to other senior executives with responsibility for formulating government programs on innovation
• executives with responsibility for regulating, licensing or assisting new commercial activities
• executives with responsibility for national, state and regional economic and industrial development and R & D initiatives
• policy advisers with an interest in macro and micro economic settings
• senior staff who coordinate government policy and whole-of-government actions.

Course Leader - Professor Jonathan West

Johnathan West is founding Director of the Australian Innovation Research Centre. Prior to assuming his current appointment, Prof West spent 18 years at Harvard University where he was Associate Prof in the Graduate School of Business Administration.

Prof West's teaching and research are in the fields of innovation and business strategy. His work focuses on understanding the roots of superior performance in national innovation systems, particularly in the fields of agribusiness, the life sciences, and biotechnology. He was faculty director for the Harvard Life Sciences Project, a cross-university initiative to understand the economic implications of the ongoing revolution in biotechnology. 

Prof West has served as a consultant to and board member of major corporations around the world and as an advisor to several governments including those of Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Japan, New Zealand and several Australian states - particularly in fields of agribusiness, innovation policy and economic development.
 

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