Sally Davenport

Sally Jane Davenport is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Academic career

After a 1985 PhD titled 'N M R Studies of Coal' at the Victoria University of Wellington, Davenport joined the staff, rising to full professor.

Davenport was appointed to the New Zealand Productivity Commission in 2011 and reappointed in 2014.

In 2018, Davenport was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Selected works

• Davenport, Sally, John Davies, and Charlotte Grimes. "Collaborative research programmes: building trust from difference." Technovation 19, no. 1 (1998): 31-40.
• Davenport, Sally. "Exploring the role of proximity in SME knowledge-acquisition." Research policy 34, no. 5 (2005): 683-701.
• Davenport, Sally, and Shirley Leitch. "Circuits of power in practice: Strategic ambiguity as delegation of authority." Organization Studies 26, no. 11 (2005): 1603-1623.
• Davenport, Sally. "Panic and panacea: brain drain and science and technology human capital policy." Research policy 33, no. 4 (2004): 617-630.
• Davenport, Sally, and David Bibby. "Rethinking a national innovation system: The small country as' SME'." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 11, no. 3 (1999): 431-462.