Sally Davenport Explained

Sally Jane Davenport
Fields:	Business incubators
Workplaces:	Victoria University of Wellington
Alma Mater:	Victoria University of Wellington
Thesis1 Title:	N M R Studies of Coal
Thesis1 Url:	http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/458
Thesis1 Year:	1985

Sally Jane Davenport is an Aotearoa-New Zealand academic and a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.^[1] She is also Director of the National Science Challenge, Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI).https://www.sftichallenge.govt.nz/ SfTI is a 10-year (2014-2024) science investment by the Aotearoa-New Zealand Government with a mission to enhance the capacity of Aotearoa-New Zealand to use physical sciences and engineering for economic growth and prosperity.https://www.sftichallenge.govt.nz/about-us/background/

Academic career

Professor Davenport completed her PhD in 1985 at Victoria University of Wellington,^[2] before taking up a post-doctorate at the University of Oxford. On her return to New Zealand, Davenport joined the staff at Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.^{[1] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Davenport was appointed to the New Zealand Productivity Commission in 2011 and reappointed in 2014.^[7]

In 2018, Davenport was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.^{[8] [9]}

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sally Davenport | School of Management | Victoria University of Wellington. www.victoria.ac.nz.
2. Davenport . Sally . 1985 . Doctoral thesis . N M R Studies of Coal . Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington . 10.26686/wgtn.16935025 . free .
3. Web site: Emeritus Investigators » The MacDiarmid Institute. www.macdiarmid.ac.nz. 9 February 2019.
4. Web site: Our Management Team. Science for Technological Innovation.
5. Web site: Sally Davenport MNZM | Te Pūnaha Matatini. www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz.
6. Web site: Where science benefits business and society | NZBusiness Magazine | The Business Magazine For NZ SME.
7. Web site: Appointment to the New Zealand Productivity Commission - 2014-go2250 - New Zealand Gazette.
8. Web site: Commissioner receives MNZM medal | Productivity Commission of New Zealand. www.productivity.govt.nz.
9. Web site: New Year Honours 2018: Business, philanthopy, arts and media. 30 December 2017. The National Business Review.