Professor Beth Webster is the Director of the Centre for Transformative Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology. Her area of study is the economics of how knowledge is created and diffuses through the economy.
On these topics alone she has authored over 100 articles in outlets such as RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law & Economics and Cambridge Journal of Economics.
She has been appointed to a number of committees including the Lomax-Smith Base funding Review; CEDA Advisory Council; the Bracks Automotive review; the Advisory Council for Intellectual Property; the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association; the Economic Society of Victoria and the Asia Pacific Innovation Conference. She is also holds honorary research positions at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford and Tasmania.
She has a PhD (economics) from the University of Cambridge and economics degrees from Monash University.
Experience
2015–present
Professor, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University
2010–2014
Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
2008–2014
Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia
2004–2009
Principal Reseaarch Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
2002–2008
Associate Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia
1999–2004
Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
1996–1999
Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
1991–1993
Senior Research Manager, Bureau of Immigration and Population Research, Australian Public Service
1985–1990
Research Economist, Department of Labour, Victorian Public Service
1983–1984
Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
1983–1983
Research Assistant, Centre for Policy Studies, Monash University