Shawn Cunningham

International facilitator and promoter of industry innovation and competitiveness, especially within regions

Born in Pretoria

My current objective is to develop a practical field around the appraisal and improvement of innovation systems, especially at the territorial or sectoral levels.

I love developing practical methods and processes to improve the performance of industry. This could either be through a territorial approaches that focus on a specific region and the interaction between agents in that region, or from a sector perspective. I develop interventions based on a diagnosis that looks at complex adaptive systems in a systemic way and that typically involves multiple stakeholders (both public and private).