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Pioneering Strategies and Small Firms, an Australia-UK Comparison
LOWE, JULIAN - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 1, pp. 125-135
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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Fascinated by the Future: Interpreting Australian Telecommunications Policy Debates
JOSEPH, R.A. - In: Prometheus 17 (1999) 2, pp. 153-162
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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R&D Incentives and their Economic Outcomes in the Australian Context
Freed, Gerry - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 2, pp. 209-222
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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Plant Pathology in Western Australia: The Contributions of an Australian Woman Scientist
ALLEN, NESSY - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 3, pp. 387-398
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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Australian Framework for the Commercialisation of University Scientific Research
Collier, Alan - In: Prometheus 25 (2007) 1, pp. 51-68
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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The Role of Knowledge Accumulation in Health and Longevity: The Puzzling Case of Suicide
Williams, Ruth F. G.; Doessel, D. P. - In: Prometheus 25 (2007) 3, pp. 283-303
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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Erneuerbare Energien - Energiewirtschaftsgesetz: Wie sollte ein zukunftsfähiges Energieversorgungssystem aussehen?
Elsässer, Rainer Frank; Hillebrand, Bernhard; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 04, pp. 05-19
Wie könnte ein zukunftsfähiges Energieversorgungssystem aussehen und welche Bedeutung hat dabei das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz? Prof. Dr. Rainer Frank Elsässer, E.ON AG, vermisst u.a. die europäische Perspektive. Für Bernhard Hillebrand, EEFA, Münster, und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ströbele,...
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Zur Errichtung eines Technologierats
Oppenländer, Karl H. - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 46 (1993) 34, pp. 03-06
Während im Ausland in der forschungs- und technologiepolitischen Beratung repräsentative oder paritätische Gremien überwiegen, sind in Deutschland die Erfahrungen mit derartigen Institutionen nicht ermutigend. Ihre Arbeit scheiterte häufig an der mangelnden Konsensbereitschaft und der...
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Humankapital und Innovation - Implikationen für die Forschungspolitik am Beispiel der Förderung der Oberflächen- und Schichttechnologien
Reinhard, Michael; Penzkofer, Horst - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 50 (1997) 30, pp. 23-31
Ein wichtiges Ziel der Forschungs- und Innovationspolitik der Bundesregierung ist "die Generierung von Spitzentechnologien und deren schnelle Nutzung in zukunftsträchtigen Anwendungsfeldern". Seit den achtziger Jahren besteht beim Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und...
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Wirtschaft "auf den Punkt gebracht"?
Klug, Markta - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 46 (1993) 24, pp. 31-34
Stilmitteln der IW-Autoren geprüft, ob die Innovation "marktfähig" ist. …
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