Innovation and Knowledge Management: The Long View
The challenge of the e-Economy is one of technological change and the innovation processaffords insights into how this new knowledge can be harnessed across the economy toincrease productivity and generate wealth. The conceptual framework for this paper isNational Systems of Innovation (NSI) as applied to Australia Edquist (1997);Freeman (1995).NSI allows us to take a holistic view of innovation that realistically blends technology withinstitutional elements, particularly including issues of collaboration.Taking a Long View (Schwartz (1991),that is, looking back on the legacy of experienceith the innovation process, will also facilitate looking forward strategically from Australia'scurrent practices, and to speculate on the prospects. This paper illustrates selectively andnot comprehensively', from my own direct experience, the evolution of innovation policiesin Australia and speculates on their implications for collaboration in the e-Economy bydrawing on selected case studies in Research and Development, Industry and Trade, andthe e-Economy. It also draws upon work for my doctorate in knowledge management at theUniversity of Technology. The selection and synthesis of theory inevitably also reflect,however idiosyncratically, my academic training in engineering, politics and economics.
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2006
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Authors: | Lester, M. E |
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Blackwell Publishing |
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