Professor Damian Hine

Professorial Research Fellow in Future Markets and BioEconomies in the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) at UQ.
Damian is an evolutionary economist with over 25 years of international experience. He has over 50 journal articles, two books, has been an advisor to the World Bank as well as multiple national governments on innovation and commercialization. He employs a range of economic and financial models in his work focussed on improving the feasibility and viability of new and disruptive technologies, products and processes. Due to his work in the economics of innovation, he has published (usually with scientists and engineers) across economics, strategy, and science; including in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Trends in Biotech, Journal of Cleaner Production, Supply Chain Forum, Future Foods and Technovation. His recent focus has been on building a data analytics capability within QAAFI to deliver market insights, market economic analysis, competitive landscape analysis, techno economics and cost benefit analysis to support evidence-based decision making in innovation and commercialization for small to large firms. He has won over $60M in funding, and is leading numerous bioeconomy initiatives across the university, including in precision fermentation and biofuels. He is also the Deputy Program Lead in Innovation Pathways for UQ’s Food and Beverage Accelerator and a Group Leader in the UQ BioSustainability Hub.
Researcher biography
Key member of Services and Supply Networks Research Club