by P Curtin · 2011 · Cited by 29 — This book of readings on innovation was commissioned by the Department of Education, for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Oslo manual.
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Fostering enterprise: the innovation and skills nexus Πresearch readings Edited by Penelope Curtin , John Stanwick and Francesca Beddie NATIONAL CENTRE FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author/project team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government or state and territory governments. NCVER
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© Commonwealth of Australia, 20 11 This work has been produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) through funding provided by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations under a program of work looking at skills for innovation. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Requests should be made to NCVER. The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author/project team and do not nec essarily reflect the views of the Australian Government or state and territory governments. ISBN 978 1 921809 83 5 web edition 978 1 921809 84 2 print edition TD/TNC 103.23 Published by NCVER ABN 87 007 967 311 Level 11, 33 King William Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 PO Box 8288 Station Arcade, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia ph +61 8 8230 8400 fax +61 8 8212 3436 email [email protected]
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NCVER About the research Fostering enterprise: the i nnovation and skills nexus Šresearch readings Editor s: Penelope Curtin , John Stanwick and Francesca Beddie, NCVER The main interest in ‚i nnovation™ is in terms of what it is seen to contribute to productivity at the enterprise level, and to economic prosperity at the national level. Innovation , as we think about it now , is much more than activities related to research and development. Indeed , much of innovation can be thought of as being incremental in nature , and incl udes improvements to pro cesses. This book of readings on innovation was commissioned by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEE WR) and looks at the relationship between skill s, innovation and industry. In November 2010, NCVER held a forum in Sydney on the relationship between innovation and skills which explored many of the concepts addressed in this book of readings. O ther researchers in the area have also contributed to chapters in this book. The authors offer a variety of views on innovation and its relevance. While the authors view innovation from differing perspectives, they all implicitly acknowledge the importance of innovation to productivity . We hope that t he chapters will stimulate debate about the role of education and skills in innovation, p articularly those emerging from vocational education and training (VET) . Tom Karmel Managing Director, NCVER
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6 Fostering enterprise: the innovation and skills nexus Œ research readings Contributors Renu Agarwal is the Research Director, Management Practices Projects , and a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney. Renu has held senior management positions at the State Rail Authority of New South Wales , Telstr a Corporation and its joint ventur e company REACH. Renu holds a BTech in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur India, a MEngSc from the University of Sydney, and a Ph D in m anagement from Macquarie Graduate School o f Management. Renu won the ANZAM Best D octoral Dissertation Award in 2008 for her research titled ‚ Drivers and outcome of elevated service offerings in a collabora tive organisational environment™. H er research interests are centred on service value networks, innovation in services, dynamic capabi lity building, management practices and , more recently , managerial innovation education. Francesca Beddie is a former diplomat who has had postings in Indonesia, Russia and Germany. From 1995 to 1998 she was a senior officer in the Australian Agency for I nternational Development, where she headed the agency™s policy development and public affairs areas. Since leaving the public service, Francesca has worked as a policy and media consultant and trainer, historian and editor. She is the author of Putting lif e into years: the Commonwealth™s role in health since 1901 . From 2002 to 2004, Francesca was the executive director of Adult Learning Australia. She has served on the ABC Advisory Council and on the Australian Press Council. Francesca joined the National C entre for Vocational Education Research in August 2007 and was appointed General Manager, Research, in April 2009. Francesca has a particular interest in the intersection of research and public policy, a topic on which she has written. Jerry Courvisanos is Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Regional Innovation and Competitiveness (CRIC), University of Ballarat. Jerry™s basic research is centred on processes of innovation and their impact on investment, business cycles and the development of businesses. This work informs applied research into innovation and entrepreneurial activity for regional development. Jerry ha s taught economics for 30 years and has advised local councils, regional develo pment boards and social service organisations on effective approaches to identifying economic strengths and establishing new activities. Jerry has published a book, Investment cycles in capitalist economies , and is currently writing his second book, Cycles , crises and innovation . Penelope Curtin is a freelance editor and writer who has worked on NCVER publications for the past 25 years. She has previo usly been an arts administrator and a bookshop proprietor. Robert Dalitz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies Research Group, Univer sity of Western Sydney. His research focuses on the linkages between innovation and competition, firms and sectors, and other systems and institutions, especially the education system. He has a PhD and degrees in engineering, economics, project management and an MBA. He has worked in the private sector in materials engineering, database management, project management, quality engineering and consulting.
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NCVER 7 Ludger Deitmer works as a senio r researcher at the Institute of Technology and Education, University of Bremen , Germany . Since 2003 he has been the convenor of the European research network for technical and vocational education and training ( TVET ) of the European Educational Research A ssociation. He is also an active member of the international network for innovative apprenticeships. Ludger has a degree in electrical engineering and in TVET teacher education. His PhD thesis focused on the management of regional innovation networks. He h as coordinated and evaluated numerous pilot projects in TVET, with a focus on new learning concepts in workplace learning. He has published several articles on these issues and on the relationships between TVET development, workplace learning and innovations in work organisations. Peter Fieger is a Senior Research Officer at NCVER , where he has worked since 2009. Prior to th is he worked at Statistics New Zealand and at various tertiary institutions. He has published papers in educational statistics. His mai n interests include quantitative research methodology and survey statistics. Roy Green is Dean of the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and has a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on innovation policy and management and has worked with universities, business and government in Australia and overseas, including for the OECD, the European Commission and Enterprise Ireland. He is Chair of the Australian Government™s Innovative Regions Centre, is on the CSIRO Manufacturing Sector Advisory Council and the NSW Manufacturing Council and is a member of TVET and the Enterprise Connect Advisory Council. He led Australian participation in a recent glob al study of management practice and productivity for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. Tom Karmel has been Managing Director of NCVER since 2002. Prior to this, he held senior appointments with the federal government in educati on, employment and labour market research and with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. He has an interest in the labour market and the economics of education, focusing on empirical modelling, with a particular interest in performance indicators in higher education and VET. He has an honours degree in mat hematical statistics (Flinders) and a Masters of Economics and doctorate from the Australian National University. Steve McEachern is the Deputy Director and National Manager of the Australian Social Science Data Archive at the Australian National University. He has also worked at Curtin University, the University of Ballarat and Deakin University. He has a background in the areas of research data archiving and dissemination, survey research and computer -assis ted research methods. His substantive research interests are in the a reas of industrial relations, human resource management and work Œfamily research. Josie Misko is a Senior Research Fellow at NCVER. In her 17 years with NCVER she has researched a wide ra nge of issues of national importance, including past and current reforms in the Australian VET system. She has also participated in national and state -based re views of the VET system™ s policies and practices, the most recent of which were concerned with the adequacy of current strategies to meet the needs of the twenty -first century, how the VET system (especially training packages) responds to current skill demands, and the extent to which it is able to deliver industry skills for innovation. Josie has al so collaborated on international comparison studies with researchers from NCVER ™s sister organisations in China (CIVTE) and Korea (KRIVET). She has been the lead researcher for two Australia country background reports for the OECD, one on training for adul ts with low basic skills and the other on the recognition of formal and non -formal learning.
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8 Fostering enterprise: the innovation and skills nexus Πresearch readings Lisa Nechvoglo d is a Research Fellow at NCVER, where she has worked for five years. Of the many different projects in which she has been involved, a particular research interest is the relationship between equity groups and VET and the role of VET as a second chance. Recent work includes Vocational education and training and people with a disability: a review of the research and Hard to reach learners: what works in reaching and keeping them? . Lisa has also contributed to a review of the Productivity Places Program for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and developed a wiki with information on Indigenous people and VET and people with a disability and VET. John Rice was appointed Chief Researcher at NCVER in 2010. Prior to this he worked in academia for more than 15 years, most recently as Academic Director ΠResearch Development at the University of Adelaide Business School. He is co -a uthor of two text books in th e field of strategic management and has authored more than 30 refereed journal articles in the management and innovation areas. His PhD, investigating strategic alliances, was awarded by Curtin University and he has other postgraduate qualifications in economics, business administration, finance and education from Griffith University, QUT and the University of Adelaide. David Rumsey was an electronics engineer in the manufacturing industry for 11 years before commencing a 40 -year involvement in VET as a teacher, course designer, policy a nalyst, TAFE executive and training and development consultant. Since 1992, David has provided research and consultancy services to industry, training institutions, skills councils and government and has been an active contributor to training reform in Aus tralia. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators and in 2006 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to education and training. Andrew Smith is Professor of Management and Pro Vice -Chancellor pro tem (Schools and Programs) at t he University of Ballarat. Prior to this, Andrew held a number of senior positi ons at Charles Sturt University and was a Research Fellow at the National Key Centre in Industrial Relations at Monash University. From 1999 to 2002, he was General Manager (Res earch and Evaluation) for NCVER. He holds an MA in History from Cambridge University, an MBA from Aston University and a PhD from the University of Tasmania. John Stanwick is a Senior Research Fellow at NCVER, where he is responsible for designing, developing, conducting and reporting research of relevance to the VET sector. At NCVER John has undertaken numerous research and consulting projects in the areas of lifelong learning, apprenticeships, workplace learning, the changing nature of the VET workforce a nd the outcomes of qualifications. Most recently he has been involved in a suite of work on innovation in enterprises and what it means for the VET sector and government. Prior to joining NCVER in 2002 John was primarily involved in research and consultin g, mainly with the Australasian Centre for Policing Research, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University, and lecturing in management at the University of Canberra. Phillip Toner is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Industry and Innovatio n Studies at the University of Western Sydney. His major areas of research interest include: industrial structure analysis; ind ustry policy; the economics of technical innovation; labour ma rket analysis; and comparative national skills formation systems. Prior to entering academia in 2002, he was extensively involved in program management and research in public sec tor VET institutions, economic analysis in the federal Treasury and private consulting. He has undertaken research for internat ional organisation s, including the OECD, World Bank, ASE AN and Industry Canada. He has also undertaken work for NCVER, the NSW Board of Vocational Education and Training, the NSW TAFE Commission, the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research , the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and for private s ector organisations, including the Australian Industry Group,
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NCVER 9 Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce , Master Build ers Association, BIS -Shrapnel, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Group Training A ustralia and unions. Jacqueline Tuck is an Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Business, University of Ballarat. She was a PhD student in the School of Business, University of Ballarat , from 2004 to early 2009 and Editorial Assistant of Accounting History from 2006 until 2009. From 1998 to 2004 Jacqueline was the Administrative Manager for the School of Education, University of Ballarat. Previously, she was a researcher at the University of Nottingham , working across a range of economic a nd social science disciplines. Jacqueline™s PhD is in the area of corporate reputation and corporate social responsibility. Tim Turpin is a sociologist and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies at the Univers ity of Western Sydney . He is a science, technology and innovation policy analyst with a particular interest in the local and global processes through which knowledge is produced, managed and diffused . He has carried out field work and published widely on science and inno vation systems, research culture, institutional change, and research policy in Australia and throughout the Asia -Pacific region , with a particular focus on South -East Asia.
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