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scale intensive than in earlier stages of the innovation process. The UK and Australian economies present an interesting … firms in Australia and the UK. Timing of entry models are developed and tested. The different economic contexts, however …
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area of telecommunications policy in Australia but this feature of discourse is often taken for granted or not seen as …. Since many countries have been swept up in the enthusiasm for a telecommunications-based future, lessons from Australia may … expectations met in the areas of competition and universal service. In spite of this, some of Telecom Australia's views expressed …
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Research and development (R&D) is presented not as a primary source of local economic activity but as secondary to fundamental factors influencing corporate survival in small economies. The increasing difficulties of demonstrating causality between levels of Industrial R&D (IRD) expenditure and...
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Very few women after the second World War made agricultural science their first career choice. Olga May Goss, however, in her 35 years in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture, saved more than one industry from ruin, thus contributing in no small measure to the economic prosperity of...
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Australia spends proportionally more on university R&D, particularly when compared with business expenditure on R … commercialisation of Australian university research results is vital if Australia is to obtain the best economic results from its … which university research commercialisation is conducted in Australia in order to identify the key components of the …
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Many Western countries have experienced the 'rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve', leading to a rise in life expectancy. This process is the result of falling death rates, which leads to increasing longevity. In this article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of...
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Prizes are receiving increasing attention in policy and entrepreneurial communities as means to promote innovation, but …
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Policy and entrepreneurial communities are increasingly promoting innovation by using prizes but their distinguishing …
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books reviewed, in terms of the five themes of Prometheus, i.e. Technological Change, Innovation, Information Economics …
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This paper reviews the contribution that Prometheus has made over the past 20 years to the literature on innovation …, innovation policy and technological change. I offer first a necessarily subjective view of how the research literatures of … innovation and innovation policy have developed in recent decades. I then compare that account with an interpretation of the …
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