The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) came into force on 1 January 2005. Prior to and subsequently to the AUSFTA being concluded, controversy surrounded the debate over its impact on Australia’s health policy, specifically on regulation of pharmaceutical patents and...

The US case Akamai Technologies Inc v Limelight Networks Inc brought the patent world's attention to the issue of if and how a patentee may enforce a method claim against a party who performs some of the steps in a patented method but leaves other steps to be performed by a third party. The case...

This paper critically analyses existing WTO Dispute Settlement rules and experience to raise awareness amongst industry, government and relevant trade law practitioners of the value in developing expertise about initiating and defending non-violation nullification of benefits (“NVNB”) claims...

Scant discussion exists in the literature about the relative design merits of various R&D schemes and most authors treat program design as a black box. In this paper, we assess the design features of three major forms of R&D support: entitlement schemes, competitive schemes and industry R&D...

It is exciting that Australia is undertaking a rethink of its Innovation Indicators. I have watched Innovation and Science Australia (ISA 2017) work through their 'Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation' strategy development process with keen interest. Where I work was also funded through...

The scope of this project was to assess the value-add of Australian incubators and accelerators to the high-growth innovative startups they support, as well as to the local, regional and national innovation ecosystems. This scope includes exploring their impact on the development of...

Academic consulting is recognised as an important and effective means of knowledge transfer with the public and private sectors. These interactions with external sectors offer opportunities for research application but also raise concerns over their potentially negative consequences for academic...

Innovation is key to boosting Australia’s productivity and inclusiveness. This paper examines the policies that create good conditions for innovation, not only in science and technology but also wider forms, such as business-model innovation. Competition and flexible markets are particularly...

Innovation policy is increasingly informed from the perspective of a national innovation system (NIS), but, despite the fact that research findings emphasize the importance of national differences in the framing conditions for innovation, policy prescriptions tend to be uniform. Justifications...

In search of a unifying measurement feature on which to base a more systematic and potentially comprehensive analysis of intangibles, this paper first analyses the economic and accounting properties of intangibles, and second, empirically evaluates managerial practices for measuring and...