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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461360
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461366
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461371
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461373
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461381
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461389
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Innovation and Chinese HRM research and practice : problems and promises ; introduction to editors' forum
Wang, Greg G.; Lamond, David; Zhang, Yichi - In: Journal of Chinese human resource management : JCHRM 4 (2013) 2, pp. 105-116
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227246
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482135
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437547
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Critical success factors for positioning Australian business talent in the global knowledge economy : a current research agenda
Meyers, Neville; Hearn, Greg; Bradley, Lisa - 2006
desired outcomes (Bandura, 2002). Accordingly, this paper overviews such trends. The paper also includes a research agenda … methodology of the study; it also outlines anticipated key benefits arising from the research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437756