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Dr Chris Dent joined IPRIA as a Research Fellow in January 2005. Chris was awarded a PhD in Law in 2003 from Murdoch University in Perth, after gaining a Law/Politics joint degree, with Honours in Politics at the same institution. The focus of the thesis was the application of Foucaultian ideas to a study of the history of negligence law. Prior to commencing work at IPRIA, Chris worked with the Centre for Media and Communications Law. His research focused on the impact of defamation law on news production with a particular emphasis on the use of content analysis techniques in the analysis of print news. Policy research at the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia and the Victorian Law Reform Commission rounds out his professional career. The law reform work included judicial review of administrative decisions, crown liability, compulsory treatment and care of people with intellectual disabilities, and workplace privacy.
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Dr Paul Jensen, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. Paul joined the Melbourne Institute in September 2003. He completed his PhD – which was on the efficiency effects of outsourcing public-sector services – at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney. His current research interests are innovation and intellectual property, and the effects of intrinsic motivation on contractual relationships. Much of his research has a strong public policy focus, and has been published in academic journals such as the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and Public Performance & Management Review. In addition, he has acted as a consultant for the Productivity Commission, the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, NSW Treasury, and the NSW Department of Community Services.
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Dr Alfons Palangkaraya, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. Alfons has a PhD in Economics from Oregon State University, specialising in Industrial Economics and International Trade. His current research focuses on empirical firm-level productivity analysis and knowledge spill-overs. He will participate in various research projects at ipria, including the R&D and Intellectual Property Scoreboard.
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Fiona Rotstein joined IPRIA as a Research Fellow in January 2006. Fiona is currently undertaking a Master of Laws at the Melbourne Law School. Fiona is also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia, and is a Registered Trade Mark Attorney. Prior to working as an academic, Fiona practised as a solicitor at two boutique intellectual property and commercial law firms, and worked with in-house counsel at Ericsson Australia. Fiona’s research focuses on facilitating knowledge transfer, the enforcement of intellectual property, and the efficiency of the intellectual property system.
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Russell Thomson commenced as a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in 2009. Russell submitted his PhD at Australian National University in September 2008. His thesis considers the determinants of investment in industrial research and development (R&D), with a particular focus on the role of tax policy. Also at ANU Russell was the 2005 recipient of the Chris Higgins prize for applied econometrics. Between 2002 and 2009 Russell was employed with the Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. While at the Department Russell managed research projects on the general aviation sector and the infrastructure construction industry. He also worked as a policy analyst on issues affecting rural and regional Australia, including competition policy, structural adjustment, access to finance and taxation.
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Professor Ian O Williamson joined IPRIA in September 2006 as a Research Fellow. Ian received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000 and holds a BS in Organizational Behavior from Miami University (Ohio). He currently is an Associate Professor in the area of Human Resource Management at the Melbourne Business School. Prior to joining the Melbourne Business School, Ian spent five years on the faculty of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Ian’s research focuses on how organizations recruit, select, and retain employees. His emphasis is on understanding how firms hire and manage highly skilled knowledge workers, such as top executives, information technology workers, consultants, scientists and lawyers. His current research focuses on the role of human resource practices in driving firm innovation. One project in this domain examines how the hiring and deployment of in-house patent attorneys influences the ability of firms to generate patents from their R&D efforts.
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Dr Lachlan Wilson, Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School. Lachlan is currently undertaking research into an analysis of patent activities of pharmaceutical companies to assess the validity of concerns raised over the evergreening debate. Lachlan is also investigating the impact of differences in patent examination procedures in Australia, the United States and Europe. Lachlan is a registered Patent and Trade Mark Attorney and previously has practised as a Patent and Trade Mark Attorney and worked as the Intellectual Property Manager at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Lachlan has a background in science, having undertaken many years of laboratory research and gained his PhD in the field of biotechnology.
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