GIS technology has been used to build an e-research facility whereby it is possible to (a) investigate and visualise on-line spatial patterns of voter support for political parties at the local level of scale at federal elections in Australia, and (b) model the relationships between those voting...

Regional economic development strategy formulation relies heavily on analytical techniques such as shift share, location quotients, input-output and SWOT analysis. However, many of theses traditional tools are proving inadequate for understanding what makes regions competitive. New tools are...

This study claims that policy makers may not be sufficiently aware of the importance of maintaining an appropriate balance between exploration and exploitation networks for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). On the basis of the open innovation model, policy makers are also increasingly...