BSc(Chem) VUW, PhD VUW

Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600, Wellington 6140
Phone: +64 4 463 5144 Fax: +64 4 463 5084

sally.davenport@vuw.ac.nz

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Research interests

Strategic management of technology, research management and policy, public-private sector stakeholder interactions and alliances, scientific entrepreneurship and the evolution of high-tech firms.

Selected publications

1. Davenport, S & Bibby, D. (2007). Contestability and Contested Stability: The Life and Times of CSIRO's New Zealand Cousins, the Crown Research Institutes. Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, 9, 181-191.
2. Davenport, S. & Daellenbach, U. (2006, July). Making a Virtual Research Centre ‘Real’: The role of social capital formation in organizational identity construction. European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Bergen, Norway.
3. Leitch, S. & Davenport, S. (2005). The Politics of Discourse: The Marketisation of the New Zealand Science and Innovation System. Human Relations, 58, 891-912.
4. Davenport, S. (2005). Exploring the Role of Proximity in SME Knowledge Acquisition. Research Policy, 34, 683-701.
5. Davenport, S. Panic and Panacea: Brain Drain and Science and Technology Human Capital Policy, Research Policy , 33(4), 2004, 617-630.
6. Davenport, S. and S. Leitch, Creating Space for the Successor: The Discourse Strategies of Pro- and Anti-GM Factions Regarding the Future of Agriculture in New Zealand, European Planning Studies, 17(7), 2009, 943-961.

Research Student

Rebecca Bednarek, PhD

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