Dr Allan O'Connor

Biography/ Background

Allan O’Connor commenced with the Entrepreneurship Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) at the University of Adelaide in March 2008. He was formerly with the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, lecturing in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation in a number of topic areas associated with new venture strategy, evaluation and start-up. Allan’s extensive industry experience has been with the small and medium enterprise sector developing and introducing new products, entering new markets, and expanding sales and business opportunities in both established and new business environments. This experience has exposed him to the challenges of growth, innovation and entrepreneurship with engineered and manufactured goods.

The Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation & Innovation Centre's (ECIC) mission is to foster innovation through entrepreneurship, commercialisation, and project management, research, teaching, and community and industry engagement activities.

Visit the ECIC website:  www.ecic.adelaide.edu.au

Qualifications

Mechanical Engineering Certificate

Graduate Diploma in Airconditioning

Graduate Diploma in Management

Master of Enterprise Innovation

PhD (Entrepreneurship)

Research Interests

Allan's research interests include entrepreneurship education, policy and the intersections between entrepreneurship, innovation and socioeconomic development. More specifically, Allan's recent research projects have involved regional development, organisational development and human capital development. These projects have involved working with the Centre for Regional Development at Swinburne University of Technology, Questacon (the National Institute for Science and Technology, Canberra), the Hargraves Institute, (a member's services organisation focussing on corporate innovation) and the Westpac Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Australia project in 2004 and 2005 serving as project manager, researcher and co-author.

Publications

The following is a short list of published refereed articles.

Hindle, K., Yencken, J. & O'Connor, A. (in press) ‘An entrepreneurship policy framework for high-growth firms: navigating between policies for picking winners and market failure', International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, Special Edition: Technological Entrepreneurship: Opportunity for High Growth Firms.

O'Connor, A. & Yamin, S. (in press) ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Managing the Paradox of Purpose for Business Innovation' International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital.

 O'Connor, A., Roos, G. & Vickers-Willis, T. 2007 ‘Evaluating the innovation capacity of a public sector organization: an Australian case study', European Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 10, No 4, pp. 532-538.

O'Connor, A., Cherry, N. & Buckley P. 2007 ‘Defining entrepreneurship as a ‘domain of practice': Implications for theory and research for policy and education', International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 654-678.

O'Connor, A. & Ramos, J. 2006 ‘Empowering Entrepreneurship Through Foresight And Innovation: Developing A Theoretical Framework For Empowerment In Enterprise Programs', Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 207-231.

 

Files

• Full list of completed publications as at June 2009 - AOC_Completed_Publications_Record.pdf [238.4K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Monday, 9 Nov 2009