Volume 15 Issue 2 (1997)
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The Vexed Question of Research Priorities: An Australian Example
This paper discusses the nature of the research priorities debate in Australia, and traces the working out of that debate over recent years. The discussion is embedded in an account…
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Public Funding of Agricultural Research: Competitive Versus Non-Competitive Mechanisms
A substantial portion of agricultural research and development (R&D) is publicly funded. It is therefore, important to give attention to the socially ideal allocation and administration of funds for agricultural…
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R&D Incentives and their Economic Outcomes in the Australian Context
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…
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Defence R&D and the Management of Australia’s Defence Technology
Technological innovation for defence-related purposes has often facilitated major advances of socio-economic significance well beyond the defence sector. In the post-Cold War era, government spending on military research and development…
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CRCs and Transdisciplinary Research: What are the Implications for Science?
A number of authors have recently proposed a future for science where the traditional academic mode of knowledge production, primarily organised on disciplinary lines, is largely replaced by a different…
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Policies for Transforming the Science and Innovation System in New Zealand: 1988–97
In 1989, the New Zealand Government initiated a fundamental reform of its science and technology system, leading to a transformation of science management in New Zealand. The politics that transformed…