OPPORTUNITIES IN KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE SERVICES

You’re invited to learn how your business can capitalise on opportunities in the growing Knowledge Intensive Services sector, by attending a forum on Wednesday, 29 February 2012.

WHAT ARE KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE SERVICES?

Knowledge Intensive Services are provided by organisations that use high-value knowledge and technology to drive their business. They are involved in industries such as professional, technical and scientific; education and training; information media and telecommunications; and provide specialist services to the high-value manufacturing, clean technology and resources and energy sectors.

WORKING WITH INDUSTRY

The Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy (DMITRE) is working with the Knowledge Intensive Services sector to ensure it is positioned to capitalise on opportunities created by the state’s $109 billion dollars in major projects as well as the expanding global services market.

SPEAKERS:

• Mr Lance Worrall, Deputy Chief Executive, DMITRE: South Australia’s Knowledge Intensive Services Growth Strategy
• Mr Andrew McCredie, Executive Director, Australian Services Roundtable: Securing Australia’s place in the global services economy
• Dr Simon Dunstall, Senior Researcher, CSIRO: Understanding business, customers and competitors through a services science lens
• Ms Cheryl Scott, Manager – Services and Manufacturing Opportunities, Austrade: Global opportunities for Knowledge Intensive Services

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Market in focus: China - Identifying/Accessing Opportunities: Tapping into South Australian Connections

Professor Dean Forbes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International & Communities), Flinders University of South Australia; Mr Norman Sheun, Managing Director, Norman Sheun Architects.

www.dmitre.sa.gov.au/kis