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Professional and Teaching Experience
Professor Peter Hall came to the University of New South Wales' ADFA campus when the University College opened in 1986.
Professor Hall has research interests in the economics of innovation; technology management; science, technology and industry policy; economic growth; and the economics and management of defence. From 1993-5 he was an Associate Commissioner with the Industry Commission on a major inquiry into research and development, innovation, competitiveness and economic growth. In 1999, he served with a working group of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council on issues relating to technological innovation in established businesses.
Originally from the UK, Professor Hall took undergraduate and graduate degrees at Oxford University (Brasenose and Nuffield) in the 1970s. He spent two years in Botswana as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute.
He came to Australia in 1978 to take his first academic position at the University of New England, Armidale and at University College became an Associate Professor in 1997 and Professor in 1999. He was Head of School from January 1997 to June 2006 and was Acting Rector of University College December 1998 - August 1999. He won the UNSW Staff Development Award for 2003. Professor Hall was on SSP, July 2006 - June 2007, visiting the Research Centre for Innovation and Competition (CIC) at Manchester University, UK.
Selected recent publications
"The RMA and Australia's defence industry base, 1996-2006", Security Challenges, 4(2), 2008 (with R. Wylie)
"Channels of small-arms proliferation: policy implications for Asia-Pacific", The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 3(1), 2008, pp 78-85. (with S. Markowski and J. Brauer)
"The US Small Arms Industry", Asteriskos: Journal of International and Peace Studies, No. 5/6, 2008, pp. 41-62. (with S. Markowski and J. Brauer)
"Defence procurement, innovation and the national innovation system", Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, WP4, December 2007
"Public Sector Entrepreneurialism and the Production of Defence", Public Finance and Management, 7(3), 2007. (with S. Markowski)
"Innovation in the minerals industry: Australia in a global context", Resources Policy , 31, 2006, pp137-145. (with G. Upstill)
"Big Science, Small Country and the Challenges of Defence System Development: An Australian Case Study", Defence and Peace Economics, 17(3), June 2006, pp 257-272. (with R. Wylie and S. Markowski).
"The Economic Benefits of Defence Industries: A Framework for Cold Blooded Assessment", Ch 5 in I. Marsh (ed.), Growth 57: The Business of Defence: Sustaining Capability, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, Sydney: June 2006. (with S. Markowski)
"Brain drains and brain gains: causes, consequences, policy", International Journal of Social Economics, 32(11), 2005, pp 939-950.
"Dynamic Capabilities, Tacit Knowledge and Absorption", Ch 4 of J. Foster and J.S. Metcalfe (eds.), Evolution and Economic Complexity, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004, pp 62-81.
"Standards and Intellectual Property Rights: An Economic and Legal Perspective", Information Economics and Policy, 16(1), 2004, pp 67-90. (with G. Lea).
"The defence industry in Poland: an offsets-based revival?", Arms Trade and Economic Development: Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets, 2004, Landong and New York. (with S. Markowski).
"Mandatory Defence Offsets: Conceptual Foundations", Ch. 3 of J. Brauer and J. Paul Dunne (eds), Arms Trade and Economics Development: Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets, Routledge, 2004, pp 43-52. (with S.J. Markowski).
"Defence Offsets in Australia and New Zealand", Ch. 18 of J. Brauer and J. Paul Dunne (eds), Arms Trade Economic Development: Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets, Routledge, 2004, pp 263-75. (with S.J. Markowski).
"Innovation: Principles, Processes and Policy. A Review of the Contribution of Prometheus in its first 20 Years", Prometheus, 21(4), 2003, pp.497-508.
"Following successfully: followership and technology adoption", Prometheus, Vol. 20, No.2, 2002, pp 87-105. (With I.Densten)
"On the Normality and Abnormality of Offsets Obligations", a chapter in The Economics of Defence, Hartley, K. and Sandler, T. (eds), a volume in the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, (Blaug, M., ed.), Cheltenham, Elgar, 2001. (Reprinted from Defence and Peace Economics 5(3), 1994.)
Aggregate Demand Curves: A Guide to Use and Abuse Revisited. Aggregate Demand and Supply: A Critique of Orthodox Macroeconomic Modelling. MacMillan, 1998.
Intellectual property rights protection and international trade: an economic survey. Prometheus, 1998 16(3), 261-273.
Challenges of defence procurement. Defence and Peace Economics, 1998, 9(1-2), 3-38 (with S Markowski).
Defence R&D and the Management of Australia's Defence Technology. Prometheus, 1997, 15(2), 223-251. (With S. Markowski and A. Dessi)
Some lessons from the Australian defence offsets experience, Defence Analysis, 1996, 12(3), 289-314, (with S.Markowski).
Trade, growth and welfare in a natural resource rich country, International Journal of Social Economics, 1996, 23(4/5/6), 188-206.
Incentives for industrial R&D: the Australian experience, Science and Public Policy, 1996, 23(4), 215-228.
Innovation, Economics and Evolution: Theoretical Perspectives on Changing Technology in Economic Systems, New York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1994, 418pp.