Sam Garrett-Jones' research and experience is in public sector management and particularly in science, technology and innovation policy development and administration. He joined the University of Wollongong with ten years experience as a science and research policy adviser with the Australian Federal government. He has research publications on the dynamics of the higher education research system and university-industry collaborative linkages in Australia, on evaluating the outcomes of research, and on quantifying innovation and knowledge flows. He has contributed publications on the ‘triple helix’ perspective on university-industry-government relations and on the effect of ‘Mode 2’ research on scientific disciplines and institutions. In ‘Using Basic Research’ (1996) he also produced one of the leading empirical studies on the socio-economic connections of academic research in Australia’s universities. A further research theme is technology management in developing countries. Sam has undertaken commissioned research on science and technology policy and management issues for major clients in Australia, Thailand Malaysia and Indonesia and other countries and for international organizations including UNESCO, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, OECD, AusAID and ASEAN. He has recently co-edited a book on ‘Innovation, Technology Policy and Regional Development: Evidence from China and Australia’ (Edward Elgar, 2002). He has also worked as a research scientist in the Pacific, Europe and America.
Articles
Cross-sector research collaboration in Australia: the cooperative research centres program at the crossroads (with Tim Turpin and Richard Woolley), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
In this article we trace changes in the institutional and social dynamics that have steered...
Managing competition between individual and organizational goals in cross-sector research and development centres (with Tim Turpin and Kieren Diment), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
Research of potential socio-economic value is commonly conducted within cross-sector (government, university, business) centres. Success...
Reward, risk and response in Australian Cooperative Research Centres (with T. Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Cooperative research centres are a well-established organizational embodiment of the ‘triple helix’. As complex inter-organizational...
Submission to the Review of the National Innovation System from the Innovation Research Network (with Ron Johnston, Lyndal Thorburn, Don Scott-Kemmis, John Howard, Ross Chapman, Richard Seymour, Christopher Witt, and Ian Marsh), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
How Demographic Characteristics Affect Mode Preference in a Postal/Web Mixed-Mode Survey of Australian Researchers (with K. Diment), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
Early promise for the Internet as a tool to make social research questionnaires easier and...
Books
Indicadores de Ciencia e Tecnologia em Mocambique (with Tim Turpin, Brian Wixted, Adalberto Alberto, Roland Brouwer, Gilead Mlay, and Francisco Mausse), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)
Diversity and convergence: research funding and patterns of research activity in Australian universities (with Tim Turpin, David K. Aylward, Gavin Speak, Michael Gaffikin, Ron Johnston, and Roy MacLeod), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2000)
Updating and extending earlier work, (see Commissioned report no. 47), the study compares research inputs...
Contributions to Books
‘Marking time?’ – The evolution of the Australian national innovation system, 1996-2005, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
This chapter reviews developments in Australia’s national system of innovation over about the last decade....
Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinarity in the University of the Future, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)
Citadels and clusters: towards a regional innovation system in Adelaide (with Peter Burns), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)
This volume is the result of a comparative investigation that contrasts micro-systems of innovation in...
Conclusion: intersecting systems of innovation (with Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)
Contrasting policies for regional and national innovation systems in China and Australia (with Liu Xielin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)
Presentations
Collective learning in the development of innovative local organizations and regions, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
The paper discusses the specific problems of constructing local advantage in the regional innovation setting...
Assessing and building innovation and learning capacity in local organizations, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Conceptual models of regional innovation systems have prompted major government initiatives in Europe and North...
There's no 'I' in innovation! Fostering social engagement to accelerate learning organizations and regions (with Andrew J. Sense), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Two crucial challenges face local governments: (1) the provision of quality community services, and (2)...
Cities of innovation: Exploring the role of local community organisations in ‘constructing advantage’ (with M. Gross, G. Kerr, S. Kotevski, and S. Zaeemdar), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
Cities and regions around the world are attempting to ‘construct advantage’ by intervening to create...
The Triple Helix and institutional change: Reward, risk and response in Australian Cooperative Research Centres (with T. Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
The paper examines 370 participants’ experience with one well-established organizational embodiment of the ‘triple helix’...