Centre for Innovation & Structural Change (CISC)

Damien Organ

B.Comm MBS

d.organ1nuigalway.ie

Personal profile

Damien Organ joined CISC as a recipient of a PhD fellowship in December 2008. His PhD thesis focuses on academic entrepreneurship and university-industry linkages as elements of national innovation systems, addressing the behavioural, cultural and structural variables which impact upon the process of research commercialisation. Damien received his MBS in Corporate Strategy and People Management from NUI Galway, his MBS thesis examining the impact of organisational identity on the implementation of strategic responses to an external shock. This was preceded by a B.Comm, upon the completion of which Damien spent two years working in industry in both training and development and eMarketing roles. 

Previous Research Experience

2002-2004 : UCD Geary Institute (formally ISSC-Institute of the Study of Social Change) A Research project under the auspices of the Department of Health and Children, the Irish Hospice Foundation and the faculty of Paediatrics, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in conjunction with the Dept of Social Policy/Social Work UCD –“A Needs Analysis of Children’s Palliative Care Services in Ireland”  Dept of Health and Children Publication 2005.

2004-2005 : DIT Centre for Social & Educational Research- Play and Technology Project (2005)

Research interests

Academic Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialisation, Technology Transfer, Strategy as Practice, Role of Identity in Strategy Implementation

Awards

Avocent International Award for Academic Excellence

Publications, presentations etc.

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