Personal
- Name
- Professor Rachel Parker
- Position(s)
- Assistant Dean - Research
QUT Business School,
Administration Services - Business,
Executive Dean's Office - Business - Professor
QUT Business School,
Management - Discipline *
- Business and Management
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 1754
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 1313
- r.parker@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (University of Queensland), LLB(Hons) (University of Queensland), BA (University of Queensland)
- Keywords
-
Global Production Networks, Industry Development, Innovation Policy, Power Relations In Global Markets, Regional Development, Technology Policy
Biography
Background
Rachel Parker’s research focuses on comparative business systems and the institutional foundations of innovation and industrial competitiveness. Her work has contributed to understandings of the way in which Australian and international public policy programs affect firm and industry behaviour and therefore industrial development and transformation. She has published forty articles and three books and her publications appear in leading international journals in the field including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Organization Studies, Political Studies, International Journal of Cultural Policy and Work, Employment and Society. She has been the lead Chief Investigator on 4 ARC Grants (including 3 ARC Discovery Grants) and has been involved in numerous ARC grants totalling around $ 2 million. She has recently worked as a consultant/advisor on knowledge transfer activities for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research; Queensland Rural Industry Training Council; QMI Solutions and Australian Institute for Commercialisation.
Research Interests
- Global production network analysis
- Power relations in global markets
- Innovation and technology policy
- Industry development and technological change
- Knowledge economy
- Comparative business systems
- Regional innovation systems
Teaching
Teaching Interests
- Technology and innovation management
- Entrepreneurship
Publications
- Parker R, Cox S, (2011) Power relations and small and medium-sized enterprise strategies for capturing value in global production networks: Visual Effects (VFX) service firms in the Hollywood film industry, Regional Studies p1-16
- Parker RL, (2010) Evolution and change in industrial clusters: An analysis of Hsinchu and Sophia Antipolis, European Urban and Regional Studies p245-260
- Parker RL, Parenta O, (2009) Multi-level order, friction and contradiction: the evolution of Australian film industry policy, International Journal of Cultural Policy p91-105
- Parker RL, Parenta O, (2008) Explaining contradictions in film and television industry policy: ideas and incremental policy change through layering and drift, Media Culture and Society p609-622
- Parker RL, (2008) Governance and the entrepreneurial economy: a comparative analysis of three regions, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice p833-854
- Boreham PR, Parker RL, Thompson P, Hall R, (2008) New technology @ work p1-224
- Parker RL, (2007) Networked Governance or Just Networks? Local Governance of the Knowledge Economy in Limerick (Ireland) and Karlskrona (Sweden), Political Studies p113-132
- Parker R, (2006) Small business and entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy: a comparison of Australia and Sweden, New Political Economy p201-226
- Parker R, (2001) The Myth of the Entrepreneurial Economy: Employment and Innovation in Small Firms, Work, Employment & Society p239-253
- Parker R, Tamaschke L, (2005) Explaining regional departures from national patterns of industrial specialisation: regional institutions, policies and state coordination, Organization Studies p1787-1808
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Leveraging R&D for the Australian Built Environment
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP110200256
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- R&D Impact, Australian Built Environment Industry, Technology Diffusion, R&D Trends
- Title
- Capturing Value on the Margins of the Global Knowledge Economy
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP1093222
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Industry Competitiveness, Global Production Networks, Economic Geography, Labour Process, Political Economy, Work Organisation
- Title
- Maximising Diffusion of Innovative Products on Public Infrastructure Projects: A Qualitative Management Study of Open Innovation Systems.
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0990553
- Start year
- 2009
- Keywords
- Innovation, Infrastructure Projects, Knowledge Transfer, Construction Industry, Industry Development, Industry Policy,
- Title
- Managing Innovation in Temporary Projects Within the Creative Industries
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- Title
- A Comparative Study of Knowledge Transfer Systems and Their Contribution to Knowledge Transfer and Diffusion, Innovation and Socioeconomic Transformation
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0776386
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- Knowledge Transfer, Innovation, Industry and Regional Policy, Technology Diffusion, Industry Development, Regional Economic Transformation
- Title
- ARC Centre of Excellence - Australian Creative Innovation System
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SR0590002
- Start year
- 2005
- Keywords
- Creative Industries, Digital Content, Creative Workforce, Intellectual Property, Innovation, International Creative Markerts.
