# Rachel Parker
**Source**: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/27706
**Parent**: https://about.uq.edu.au/leadership-governance/senior-executive-team/deputy-vice-chancellor-research-and-innovation
Professor
# Rachel Parker
Email:
: [r.parker@uq.edu.au](mailto:r.parker@uq.edu.au)
Phone:
: [+61 7 336 59044](tel:+61 7 336 59044)
## Positions
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
: Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation)
## Overview
### Background
Rachel Parker's research field is technology innovation systems and she has a discipline background in policy, governance and strategy.
Rachel has twenty years experience in higher education research leadership as Director Higher Degree Research Studies (UQ, 2003-2006), Associate Dean Research (QUT, 2009-2018), Dean Research Development (QUT 2014-2015), Director Centre for METS Business Innovation (QUT, 2017-2020) and most recently as Executive Director, Research Translation and Impact (UQ, 2022-2023). She has worked closely with State and Federal governments as an advisor on technology and innovation policy, research impact and university-industry research collaboration.
Rachel's research focuses on the business and social dimensions of uptake and diffusion of science and engineering research across the economy and the creation of new economic opportunities from new technologies. She was formerly Leader of the Industry Translation Capability and Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, prior to taking up her current role. She was the inaugural Director Centre for Mining Equipment Technology and Services (METS) Business Innovation (QUT 2017-2020), funded by Queensland Government, Mining 3 and with major projects funded by CRCOre. She has led large-scale multi-disciplinary partnerships including ARC, CRC and commercial research. She has been a Lead Chief Investigator on three ARC Discovery Projects and a Chief Investigator on four ARC Linkage Projects and the Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation.
Rachel was a member of the social sciences panel of the ARC Research Engagement and Impact assessment exercise, she was an invited expert witness before the Senate Economic References Committee inquiry into Australia’s innovation system, she was a member of the economic impact panel of the ATN/GO8 research impact assessment trial. Rachel has worked as an advisor on knowledge transfer activities for several public organisations and her leadership roles have involved the development of impact pathways including the coordination, design and delivery of collaborations with industry and government to maximise industry awareness of emerging industrial opportunities as well as the barriers and drivers of technology adoption and industry development.
Her publications appear in leading international journals in the field including Economic Geography, Sociology, Regional Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, Environment and Planning A, Organization Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Work, Employment and Society. In addition to academic publications, her research on industrial innovation has been published in the Australia Higher Education Supplement and The Conversation. In 2005, Rachel received the UQ Vice Chancellor Foundation Research Excellence Award.
Read more
Read less
### Availability
Professor Rachel Parker is:
: Not available for supervision
### Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Law, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
## Works
[Search Professor Rachel Parker’s works on UQ eSpace](http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/list/author_id/7026448)
[All
(57)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/27706/all)
[Book
(2)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/27706/4747)
[Journal Article
(44)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/27706/4748)
[Conference Publication
(6)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/27706/4751)
[Book Chapter
(5)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/27706/4752)
2023
Journal Article
##### Overcoming barriers to knowledge co-production in academic–practitioner research collaboration
McCabe, Angela, Parker, Rachel, Osegowitsch, Tom and Cox, Stephen (2023). Overcoming barriers to knowledge co-production in academic–practitioner research collaboration. European Management Journal, 41 (2), 212-222. doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.11.009
[Overcoming barriers to knowledge co-production in academic–practitioner research collaboration](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:0f5566a)
2022
Journal Article
##### An actor-oriented perspective on innovation systems: functional analysis of drivers and barriers to innovation and technology adoption in the mining sector
Gruenhagen, Jan Henrik, Cox, Stephen and Parker, Rachel (2022). An actor-oriented perspective on innovation systems: functional analysis of drivers and barriers to innovation and technology adoption in the mining sector. Technology in Society, 68 101920, 101920. doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101920
[An actor-oriented perspective on innovation systems: functional analysis of drivers and barriers to innovation and technology adoption in the mining sector](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:e91e41e)
2021
Journal Article
##### The role of universities in Transformative Innovation Policy
Parker, Rachel and Lundgren, Petra (2021). The role of universities in Transformative Innovation Policy. Science and Public Policy, 49 (2), 159-167. doi: 10.1093/scipol/scab070
[The role of universities in Transformative Innovation Policy](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:4a07684)
2021
Journal Article
##### Technology diffusion and firm agency from a technological innovation systems perspective: a case study of fatigue monitoring in the mining industry
Gruenhagen, Jan Henrik, Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen (2021). Technology diffusion and firm agency from a technological innovation systems perspective: a case study of fatigue monitoring in the mining industry. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 62 101655, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2021.101655
[Technology diffusion and firm agency from a technological innovation systems perspective: a case study of fatigue monitoring in the mining industry](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:2bba81e)
2021
Journal Article
##### Coordination and legitimacy in the Australian biofuels innovation system 1979 - 2017
Cox, Stephen, Parker, Rachel, O'Hara, Ian and Sinclair, Stephen (2021). Coordination and legitimacy in the Australian biofuels innovation system 1979 - 2017. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 38, 54-67. doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2020.11.004
[Coordination and legitimacy in the Australian biofuels innovation system 1979 - 2017](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:e4769f8)
2021
Journal Article
##### Knowledge co-production in academic-practitioner research collaboration: an expanded perspective on power
McCabe, Angela, Osegowitsch, Tom, Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen (2021). Knowledge co-production in academic-practitioner research collaboration: an expanded perspective on power. Management Learning, 52 (5), 1-26. doi: 10.1177/1350507620988431
[Knowledge co-production in academic-practitioner research collaboration: an expanded perspective on power](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:1b524f9)
2020
Journal Article
##### The state and the extractive industries in Australia: growth for whose benefit?
Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen (2020). The state and the extractive industries in Australia: growth for whose benefit?. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7 (2), 621-627. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2020.02.001
[The state and the extractive industries in Australia: growth for whose benefit?](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:3e13355)
2020
Journal Article
##### Factors driving or impeding the diffusion and adoption of innovation in mining: a systematic review of the literature
Gruenhagen, Jan Henrik and Parker, Rachel (2020). Factors driving or impeding the diffusion and adoption of innovation in mining: a systematic review of the literature. Resources Policy, 65 101540, 101540. doi: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101540
[Factors driving or impeding the diffusion and adoption of innovation in mining: a systematic review of the literature](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:1cdaa4f)
2018
Journal Article
##### How the globalisation and financialisation of mining Majors affects linkage development with local engineering and technology suppliers in the Queensland resources industry
Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen (2018). How the globalisation and financialisation of mining Majors affects linkage development with local engineering and technology suppliers in the Queensland resources industry. Resources Policy, 58, 125-130. doi: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.04.002
[How the globalisation and financialisation of mining Majors affects linkage development with local engineering and technology suppliers in the Queensland resources industry](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:260318c)
2018
Journal Article
##### Financialization and value-based control: lessons from the Australian mining supply chain
Parker, Rachel, Cox, Stephen and Thompson, Paul (2018). Financialization and value-based control: lessons from the Australian mining supply chain. Economic Geography, 94 (1), 49-67. doi: 10.1080/00130095.2017.1330118
[Financialization and value-based control: lessons from the Australian mining supply chain](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:796bb92)
2017
Journal Article
##### The dynamics of global visual effects and games development industries: lessons for Australia’s creative industries development policy
Parker, Rachel, Cox, Stephen and Thompson, Paul (2017). The dynamics of global visual effects and games development industries: lessons for Australia’s creative industries development policy. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23 (4), 395-414. doi: 10.1080/10286632.2015.1064118
[The dynamics of global visual effects and games development industries: lessons for Australia’s creative industries development policy](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:6b7b9d3)
2016
Journal Article
##### Building a scale for dynamic learning capabilities: the role of resources, learning, competitive intent and routine patterning
Verreynne, Martie-Louise, Hine, Damian, Coote, Len and Parker, Rachel (2016). Building a scale for dynamic learning capabilities: the role of resources, learning, competitive intent and routine patterning. Journal of Business Research, 69 (10), 4287-4303. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.003
[Building a scale for dynamic learning capabilities: the role of resources, learning, competitive intent and routine patterning](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:398684)
2016
Journal Article
##### The ceiling to coproduction in university–industry research collaboration
McCabe, Angela, Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen (2016). The ceiling to coproduction in university–industry research collaboration. Higher Education Research and Development, 35 (3), 560-574. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2015.1107888
[The ceiling to coproduction in university–industry research collaboration](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:542e83d)
2016
Journal Article
##### Interrogating creative theory and creative work: inside the games studio
Thompson, Paul, Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen (2016). Interrogating creative theory and creative work: inside the games studio. Sociology, 50 (2), 316-332. doi: 10.1177/0038038514565836
[Interrogating creative theory and creative work: inside the games studio](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:d19f4d9)
2014
Journal Article
##### How small business advisory program delivery methods (collective learning, tailored, and practice-based approaches) affect learning and innovation
Sawang, Sukanlaya, Parker, Rachel and Hine, Damian (2014). How small business advisory program delivery methods (collective learning, tailored, and practice-based approaches) affect learning and innovation. Journal of Small Business Management, 54 (1), 244-261. doi: 10.1111/jsbm.12142
[How small business advisory program delivery methods (collective learning, tailored, and practice-based approaches) affect learning and innovation](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:353544)
2014
Journal Article
##### How technological change affects power relations in global markets: remote developers in the console and mobile games industry
Parker, Rachel, Cox, Stephen and Thompson, Paul (2014). How technological change affects power relations in global markets: remote developers in the console and mobile games industry. Environment and Planning A, 46 (1), 168-185. doi: 10.1068/a45663
[How technological change affects power relations in global markets: remote developers in the console and mobile games industry](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:c9e941f)
2014
Book Chapter
##### What next? Future directions for R&D investment
Kraatz, Judy A., Hampson, Keith D., Parker, Rachel L. and Roos, Göran (2014). What next? Future directions for R&D investment. R and D Investment and Impact in the Global Construction Industry. (pp. 284-309) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315774916
[What next? Future directions for R&D investment](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:ed1090f)
2013
Journal Article
##### Deconstructing and reconstructing the capability hierarchy
Hine, Damian, Parker, Rachel, Pregelj, Lisette and Verreynne, Martie-Louise (2013). Deconstructing and reconstructing the capability hierarchy. Industrial and Corporate Change, 23 (5), 1299-1325. doi: 10.1093/icc/dtt046
[Deconstructing and reconstructing the capability hierarchy](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:317319)
2013
Journal Article
##### The role of knowledge intermediaries in developing firm learning capabilities
Parker, Rachel and Hine, Damian (2013). The role of knowledge intermediaries in developing firm learning capabilities. European Planning Studies, 22 (5), 1048-1061. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2012.758688
[The role of knowledge intermediaries in developing firm learning capabilities](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:290205)
2013
Journal Article
##### Power relations and small and medium-sized enterprise strategies for capturing value in global production networks: visual effects (VFX) in the Hollywood film industry
Parker, Rachel and Cox, Stephen (2013). Power relations and small and medium-sized enterprise strategies for capturing value in global production networks: visual effects (VFX) in the Hollywood film industry. Regional Studies, 47 (7), 1095-1110. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2011.600303
[Power relations and small and medium-sized enterprise strategies for capturing value in global production networks: visual effects (VFX) in the Hollywood film industry](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:ccaaa8e)
## Funding
### Past funding
- 2006 - 2008
A cross-national comparison of novel market-pull technology transfer programs which facilitate research organisation commercialisation through dynamic SMEs.
ARC Linkage Projects
[Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/7741)
- 2005 - 2006
Governing the Knowledge Economy: Facilitating Learning and Innovation within Networks and Local Regions
UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards - DVC(R) Funding
[Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/7698)
- 2004 - 2005
Public Research Institutions, Policy Frameworks and Biotechnology Innovation
UQ FirstLink Scheme
[Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/19024)
- 2003 - 2005
The impact of small business policy systems on small firm innovation and competitiveness in critical industry sectors
ARC Discovery Projects
[Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/18618)
- 2002
Industrial policy in the new economy: Public policy influences on small firm competitiveness in Australia and Denmark.
ARC Discovery Projects
[Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/18360)
- 2001
The state and the entrepreneurial economy: An examination of the influence of the state on the performance of small firms in Australia, Denmark and Sweden.
UQ Early Career Researcher
[Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/18200)
View all 6 past funded projects
View less
## Supervision
### Availability
Professor Rachel Parker is:
: Not available for supervision
### Supervision history
#### Completed supervision
- 2009
Doctor Philosophy
##### [The processes and factors of innovation and regeneration in peripheral regions](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185236)
Principal Advisor
- 2004
Doctor Philosophy
##### The role of universities in regional innovation in Australia
Principal Advisor
- 2008
Doctor Philosophy
##### [The Political and the Personal: Cuba's health Outcomes and the Social Relations Underlying Them](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:135558)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
[Dr Geoff Dow](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/8081)
## Media
### Enquiries
For media enquiries about Professor Rachel Parker's areas of expertise, story ideas and help finding experts, contact our Media team:
[communications@uq.edu.au](mailto:communications@uq.edu.au)
## External profiles
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4961-6714)
- [ResearcherID](https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/I-9759-2012)
- [Scopus](https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7402751083)
Log in to Academic Portal to update your profile
[Update my profile](https://academicportal.app.uq.edu.au/profile/)