Our people
Meet the people involved in the Building New Zealand's Innovation Capacity project and find out how to contact them.
Co-leaders
Professor, School of Management
Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Value creation and capture, governance and control, and strategic decision making for R&D and innovation.
Associate Dean — Māori
University of Otago
Research areas: Vision Mātauranga, Māori language, resource extraction in Māori territories, Māori entrepreneurship, and data sovereignty.
Researchers
Senior Lecturer, Management and International Business
University of Auckland
Research areas: Innovation strategy, open Innovation, team learning, ambidexterity, product/process innovation, dynamic capabilities, absorptive capacity.
Research Fellow
University of Otago
Research areas: Māori social and economic development, innovation capability, Māori enterprise, cultural and indigenous tourism, social anthropology, and Vision Mātauranga.
Acting Associate Dean, Research; School of Management
Massey University
Research areas: Future of work (the influence of smart technology, artificial intelligence, automation and algorithms), human resource management, problem identification and design thinking.
Professor Emerita, School of Management
Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Research and technology management and policy, commercialisation, research technology alliances and networks, stakeholder strategies and interactions, and discourse and dialogue surrounding research and technology.
Senior Lecturer, Management and International Business
University of Auckland
Research areas: Indigenous advancement through entrepreneurship and innovation, Māori theories of value.
Dean's Professorial Chair in Management and Māori Business
Massey University
Research areas: Māori cultural issues at work, job burnout, work-family practices, high-performance work systems, work-life balance, Māori leadership, leadership and followership, turnover, retention, and the great resignation, innovation, entrepreneurship, firm strategy, firm performance, employee wellbeing including stress, kaupapa Māori research methodologies.
Director Te Kotahi Research Institute
University of Waikato
Research areas: Indigenous data, indigenous methodologies, global indigenous studies, Māori innovation, Māori genomics, and Māori ethics.
Research Fellow
University of Otago
Research areas: Social identity and sustainable behaviours, misperceptions as barriers to climate change mitigation, moral rebels and social norm shifting, and values integration in technological innovation.
Pou Pūtaiao - Director, Māori Research, Science and Innovation
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Research areas: Mātauranga Māori, Māori aspirations in science.
Associate Professor, Strategic Management
University of Otago
Research areas: Strategy and innovation processes, academic entrepreneurship, and technology transfer.
Senior Lecturer
University of Otago
Research areas: Work organisation, performance management, and talent management.
Director of the Atom Innovation Space, School of Management
Victoria University of Wellington
Research areas: Organisational communication, organisational interaction, multimodal discourse analysis, open innovation, and capacity development.
Professor, Otago Business School
University of Otago
Research areas: Sustainability, climate change, and business.
