%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T Innovation Rhetoric and Reality: An Introduction to the TIM Review's Special Issue on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Australia %A Rowena Barrett %K Australia %K entrepreneurship %K innovation %K National Innovation and Science Agenda %X In this introduction to the Technology Innovation Management Review's special issue on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Australia, Guest Editor Rowena Barrett reflects on the perceptions of "innovation", both in terms of its evolving concepts and terminology (the rhetoric) and its frontline application (the reality). Prompted by the recent launch and ongoing implementation of Australia Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda's, this special issue focuses on insights into innovation and entrepreneurship from the Australian context. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 5-10 %8 06/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/992 %N 6 %1 Queensland University of Technology Rowena Barrett is Head of the School of Management at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She has played leading roles in organizing, managing, and administering research in universities in Australia and the United Kingdom. Rowena holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, on industrial relations in smaller firms, and she has spent many years investigating the ways people in smaller firms are managed and how those firms are organized. She has a sizeable portfolio of research publications including books, book chapters, journal articles, as well practitioner papers and reports. Her research has been funded by university, industry, and government sources in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has extensive experience in teaching in the areas of management, human resource management, and industrial relations, while she has supervised over 10 PhDs to successful completion. She has also held numerous board and council member positions, both within and beyond academia. In 2015, Rowena chaired the ISPIM Innovation Summit "Changing the Innovation Landscape", which took place at QUT in Brisbane, Australia, from 6–9 December. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/992