Professor Rowena Barrett
Fellow
- Club/association Details
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Role(s): Fellow Level: Full Status: Active
- Bio/Profile
- Professor Rowena Barrett is QUT's Pro Vice-Chancellor (Entrepreneurship and Regional Innovation). She is an experienced and authentic leader who brings integrity, purpose and commitment to engaging people across all domains inside and outside the university whether this is around regional development, innovation, entrepreneurial mindset and practice or research. Barret leads the development of an encouraging, supportive and collaborative environment for entrepreneurial action at QUT and regional innovation across Queensland and beyond. She has an h-Index of 26. Barrett brings academic and practical understanding?of motivations and drivers for?entrepreneurship and innovation that is often context-dependent and place-based.?She has been instrumental in activating QUT's entrepreneurial DNA as well as ensuring the university is a key player in the wider Queensland innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.?She manages the university’s regional Queensland MOUs, engagement with the Regional University Study Hubs, and delivers Queensland Connects, a regional ecosystem leadership program. She works closely with colleagues at MIT Sloan School of Management.
