8 December 2007

• Jim Wyatt from the State Department of Economic Development

Topic: Tasmania's Digital Future.

23 November 2007

• Larry Podmore of Intellinc (Springboard)

Topic: The aims and development of business incubators.

23 August 2007

• Professor Keith Smith

Topic: Innovation and growth in resource-based economies.

27 July 2007

• Professor Jonathan West

Topic: Why Agribusiness and food have become growth industries.

28 May 2007

• Siddhartha De and Damian O'Rourke (ABS National Statistical Centre in Canberra)

Topic: ABS innovation survey and ICT-related series.

15 May 2007

• Prof Ian Marsh (ANZSOG Chair of Public Management at the University of Sydney)

Topic: Governing Innovation: A comparison of Irish and Australian approaches.

 30 April 2007

• Mr Mark Sayer (General Manager of the Investment Attraction and Research Unit Department of Economic Development)

Topic: Economic Strategy in Tasmania.

27 April 2007

• Ms Alexandra Lejda and Professor Smith

Topic: Global warming: a challenge to the world's innovative capacity.           

An overwhelming body of scientific evidence now clearly indicates that climate change is a serious and urgent issue. Recent authoritative reports such as the 2006 Stern review in the UK and the assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have given the issue an unprecedented prominence in the public mind.

The response to global warming is emerging as one of the probable key drivers of both technical and socio-political innovation in the first half of the 21^st century. 

This presentation by Alexandra Lejda and Prof Keith Smith provides a perspective on the latest scientific evidence on climate change and gives an insight into the economic arguments behind it.

View presentations:   ClimatePartI.pdf     ClimatePartII.pdf      

16 April 2007

• Mr Eric Iversen

Topic: IPRs and Norwegian enterprises: diversification of innovative efforts in Norwegian firms.

2 April 2007

• Dr Paul Jensen (Melbourne University Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research)

Topic: Investment in Intangible Capital.

19 March 2007 

• Professor Jonathan West

Topic: Developing a State Innovation Strategy for NSW.

5 March 2007

• Professor Keith Smith: Structural change, growth and innovation

Topic: the roles of medium and low tech industries.