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Financing Innovation: Markets and the Structure of Risk.

West, J - 2004

Over the past two decades, Australia has failed to build significant positions in the technological revolution that has transformed the global economy. In high-tech industries such as software and electronics Australia has been left behind, and in emerging sectors such as biotechnology, it...

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Low and medium technology industries in the knowledge economy: the analytical issues

Hirsch-Kreinsen, H; Jacobson, D; Laestadius, S; Smith, KH - 2005

The aim of this chapter is to explore some of the issues and to underline the main aspects that have been focussed upon in the PILOT project. We begin the chapter with consideration of why so much academic and policy attention has been paid, in our view disproportionately, to high-tech...

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Human resources, mobility and the systems approach to innovation

Smith, KH - 2001

treat all of the research and educational issues that are of interest within the systems approach, although they are focused …

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Innovation and economic performance at the enterprise level

Sandven, T; Smith, KH - 2001

It is frequently claimed that innovation is essential to economic performance, but such claims are usually quite general and abstract. Often they apply indistinguishably to economic growth generally, to the competitiveness of national economies, to the profitability, survival and growth of...

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EU scoreboard reveals need for industrial R&D champs

Moncada-Paterno-Castello, P; Ciupagea, C; Smith, KH; … - 2005

The top 500 industrial R&D spenders outside the European Union increased their R&D investment by 3.9 percent to 195.6 billion [euro] in fiscal 2003. In contrast, the EU top 500 cut their R&D spending 2.0 percent to 100.8 billion [euro]. The compound annual growth rate for 2000-2003 was 1.2...

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Structural change, growth and innovation: the roles of medium and low-tech industries, 1980-2000

Sandven, T; Smith, KH; Kaloudis, A - 2005

It is often argued that high tech industries drive growth processes, and that they are the sources of growth in output, employment and productivity in the knowledge economy. This is a special case of a more general argument that economic growth is characterized by the creation of new and the...

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Innovation and growth in resource-based economies

Smith, KH - 2007

One of the striking features of the economics of both development and growth, both in the mainstream and its self-styled heterodox alternatives, is a resolute failure to take account of some key empirical and historical characteristics of the world we live in. The major problem seems to be an...

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Scientists, career choices and organisational change : managing human resources in cross sector R&D organisations

Turpin, Tim; Garrett-Jones, Sam; Diment, Kieren - University of Wollongong; University of Wollongong; … - 2005

The Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program is typical of the ways many governments are seeking to … research into the impact of such partnerships and career choices on the organizations in which scientists work. This paper … presents some findings from two new Australian Research Council funded studies in Australia designed to investigate the careers …

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Innovative and entrepreneurial activity in the public sector : the changing face of public sector institutions

Luke, Belinda G.; Kearins, Kate; Verreynne, Martie-Louise - 2010

three SOEs. Findings reveal that those aspects typically associated with entrepreneurship, such as innovation, risk …

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Staffing Practices in Australian ICT Micro-Firms: growing virtual?

Twyoniak, Stephane; Burrows, Terrena M. - 2007

Human Resource Management (HRM) research, theory and practice overwhelming views the staffing of firms as a series of … challenges. Further, this study lends support to the notion that research on entrepreneurial firms differs to that of large …

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