Beth Webster is an economist and Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) at the University of Melbourne. IPRIA is based at the University of Melbourne, and is a joint enterprise of the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and the Melbourne Business School. She has a Bachelor and Master of Economics from Monash University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Beth has undertaken wide-ranging research on the economics of innovation, intellectual property, as well as more general research on the performance of Australian enterprises. She has been published widely including 2 books and over 50 journal articles.
Dr Webster also an active adviser to Australian governments on economic policy and is an associate of the Oxford University Intellectual Property Centre. Recent government clients include the Commonwealth Departments of Industry, Technology and Resources; Employment; Education, Training; IP Australia; the Fair Pay Commission; AusAID and the Victorian Departments of Premier and Cabinet, Treasury and Finance; Office of The Auditor-General; Environment and the Garnaut Climate Change Review. Industry clients include IBM, Medicines Australia; the Business Council of Australia.
