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Growing Innovation Leadership

Dr Karen Manley

Queensland University of Technology

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Queensland versus Canada

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Written strategic plan

Digital photography

Computer networks

Quality certification

Email

Canada Queensland

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Innovation

Continual improvement

New or significantly improved products/practices

Technological or organisational

Using existing innovation or developing new ones

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Drivers

0% 4% 8% 12% 16%

Quality

Human Resources

Time/Speed

Knowledge/information

Accuracy

Cost

Technical`Performance

Clients

Efficiency/Productivity

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Strategies

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Customer feedback

Communication

Continualscanning/development

Staff-related strategies

Evaluation

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Obstacles

0% 10% 20% 30%

small market/small firm

low volume of available work

clients

insufficient benefits

time

staff-related

conservative stakeholders

limited funds

cost of technology

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Growing Innovation Leadership

Diffuse knowledge about the benefits of innovation

Respond to public sector opportunities for improvement

Empower our greatest asset - people

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Technological activities are statistically significant determinants of export and productivity performance (Fagerberg)

Innovation has played a significant role in the economic transformation of the East Asian economies (Hobday)

Use of advanced technology is unequivocally associated with higher productivity, wages and employment growth (U.S. Commerce)

Innovation Benefits

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Public Sector

• Weaker perception of the benefits of innovation

• More likely to identify conservative stakeholders as a significant obstacle

• Less likely to have developed original innovations.

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Business Practice innovation

constituted half of original innovations and featured strongly in the

identification of ‘most important

adoptions’

One quarter of respondents used

staff-related strategies to maximise

innovation benefits

•Business Practice innovation•constituted half of original innovations and featured strongly in the•identification of ‘most important•adoptions’

•One quarter of respondents used•staff-related strategies to maximise•innovation benefits

People Matter

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Growing Innovation Leadership

•Diffuse knowledge about the•benefits of innovation

•Respond to public sector•opportunities for improvement

•Empower our greatest asset - people

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