Ron Beckett is an industry practitioner with more than twenty-five years experience in the aerospace industry as a manager and change agent and nearly ten years experience as a consultant specializing in strategic innovation practices. For some fifteen years he has been working with university business schools seeking to better understand things that make sense in industry , and searching for new ideas that industry might utilize. He has used action research and case study methods in this interaction. Ron has published more than eighty conference papers, journal articles or book chapters on related subjects, including knowledge management, multi-partner collaboration and understanding innovation as a business process. He has been a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He currently manages a consultancy network, and is an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University
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