Professor Paul Jensen
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Melbourne
Advisory Board Member
Professor Paul Jensen is the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Business & Economics at the University of Melbourne.
He is currently the General-Secretary of the Asia Pacific Innovation Conference, which is an interdisciplinary network of scholars in economics, management and law focusing on innovation research.
Paul commenced at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne in 2003, working with Professor Beth Webster and a team of economists affiliated with the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA). He has published widely in the area of innovation economics in leading field journals (Journal of Industrial Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Law & Economics) and in general interest journals (Review of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Cambridge Journal of Economics). He has been the recipient of numerous ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants over the years and is currently working on a Linkage Grant evaluating the impact of the Indigenous Preferential Procurement Policy.
He was an editor of the Australian Economic Review for 5 years and is a frequent commentator on domestic and international public policy. He was formerly Assistant Director of the Melbourne School of Government and a Fellow of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and has had research visits at global institutions including Oxford University, Hitotsubashi University, Munich University, Polytechnic University of Turin and Leuven University.
Advisory Board Member
Professor Paul Jensen is the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Business & Economics at the University of Melbourne.
He is currently the General-Secretary of the Asia Pacific Innovation Conference, which is an interdisciplinary network of scholars in economics, management and law focusing on innovation research.
Paul commenced at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne in 2003, working with Professor Beth Webster and a team of economists affiliated with the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA). He has published widely in the area of innovation economics in leading field journals (Journal of Industrial Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Law & Economics) and in general interest journals (Review of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Cambridge Journal of Economics). He has been the recipient of numerous ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants over the years and is currently working on a Linkage Grant evaluating the impact of the Indigenous Preferential Procurement Policy.
He was an editor of the Australian Economic Review for 5 years and is a frequent commentator on domestic and international public policy. He was formerly Assistant Director of the Melbourne School of Government and a Fellow of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and has had research visits at global institutions including Oxford University, Hitotsubashi University, Munich University, Polytechnic University of Turin and Leuven University.
Leadership Roles & Achievements
- Advisory Board Member, Mabo Centre
- Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute
- Research Fellow, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
- IPRIA Associate and collaborative researcher
- Former Assistant Director, Melbourne School of Government
- Former Fellow, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
- General-Secretary, Asia Pacific Innovation Conference (APIC) (current)
- Editor, Australian Economic Review (5 years)
- IPRIA Advisory Board Member
- Expert Panel Member, Australian Federal Government's National Innovation Systems Review
- Expert Panel Member, WIPO's Roundtable on 'IP and SMEs'
- Scientific Committee Member, European Policy on Intellectual Property (EPIP) conference at Oxford (September 2016)
Published Works
- Chief Investigator: Evaluating the impact of Indigenous preferential procurement programs, ARC Linkage Grant, 2022-2026
- Indigenous Businesses Sector Snapshot Study, Insights from I-BLADE 1.0, University of Melbourne, 2022
- Book: What is evidence-based policy?, 2013
- Full publishing history available on ResearchGate