Phillip Toner is an honorary senior research fellow in the department of political economy at the University of Sydney. His research includes industrial structure analysis and industry policy, the economics of technical change and international vocational skills formation systems, and he has conducted projects on these topics for the OECD, the EU, the World Bank, Industry Canada, the South African Human Sciences Research Council, APEC, the Australian Research Council, the Department of Innovation, Science and Research and the National Centre for Vocational Education Research among others. Phillip is the author of Main Currents in Cumulative Causation: The Dynamics of Growth and Development. Previously he worked in economic and labour market analysis including for federal Treasury.