Sally Jane Davenport is an Aotearoa-New Zealand academic and a full professor at the

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well know ...

. She is also Director of the

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, ''Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI)'

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Academic career

Professor Davenport completed her

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in 1985 at

, before taking up a post-doctorate at the University of Oxford. On her return to New Zealand, Davenport joined the staff at

, rising to full professor. Davenport was appointed to the New Zealand Productivity Commission in 2011 and reappointed in 2014. In 2018, Davenport was made a

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Selected works

* Davenport, Sally, John Davies, and Charlotte Grimes. "Collaborative research programmes: building trust from difference." Technovation 19, no. 1 (1998): 31–40. * Davenport, Sally. "Exploring the role of proximity in SME knowledge-acquisition." Research policy 34, no. 5 (2005): 683–701. * Davenport, Sally, and Shirley Leitch. "Circuits of power in practice: Strategic ambiguity as delegation of authority." Organization Studies 26, no. 11 (2005): 1603–1623. * Leitch, Shirley, & Sally Davenport. (2011). Corporate identity as an enabler and constraint on the pursuit of corporate objectives. ''European Journal of Marketing.'' 45 (9/10), 1501 – 1520. * Davenport, Sally. & Shirley Leitch. (2009) We Are What We Grow: The Discursive Strategies of Pro- and Anti-GE Factions Regarding the Future of Agriculture in New Zealand. ''European Planning Studies,'' 17(7), 943-961''.'' * Davenport, Sally. "Panic and panacea: brain drain and science and technology human capital policy." Research policy 33, no. 4 (2004): 617–630. * Davenport, Sally, and David Bibby. "Rethinking a national innovation system: The small country as' SME'." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 11, no. 3 (1999): 431–462.

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