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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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In this paper, we use the US shale gas experience to shed light on how China might overcome the innovation problem …, an innovation stage and a scaling-up stage, with the first presenting a much bigger challenge than the latter. Our … analysis suggests that China’s national oil companies offer the best hope for overcoming the innovation problem. China’s policy …
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Prizes are receiving increasing attention in policy and entrepreneurial communities as means to promote innovation, but …
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Regulators often seek to promote the use of improved, cleaner technology when new investments occur; however, technology mandates are suspected of raising costs and delaying investment. We examine investment choices for electricity generation under a strict emissions rate performance standard...
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Much of the Knowledge Management (KM) literature assumes that all relevant knowledge can be represented as information and 'managed'. But the meaning of information is always context-specific and open to subsequent reinterpretation. Moving over time or between contexts affords scope for new...
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