Volume 15 Issue 3 (1997)
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HTSF Marketing and Customer Education: A Role for a Technology Awareness Programme?
This article looks at the rationale for government-sponsored technology awareness programmes in very new areas of technology, with special reference to virtual reality technology. For some high technology small firms…
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Catching Up or Marking Time? Technology Transfer and Market Fragmentation in Australia
Australia was a latecomer to industrialisation, dependent on the importation of ‘foreign’ technology to help ‘catch up’. While such a strategy can lead to entrenched structural dependence, a dynamic variant…
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Innovation and the Patent Attorney
Patents, as one of the few quantifiable outputs of research, are increasingly being used as an indicator of the less quantifiable—innovation, and the competitiveness that is assumed to spring from…
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Reluctance to Innovate: A Case Study of the Titanium Dioxide Industry
An autopoietic explanation is offered to explain the reluctance of a major international manufacturer of titanium dioxide to adopt a production process that might have enabled it to retain competitive…
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The United States and the Global Information Infrastructure: Orchestrator, Functionary, or Mediator?
This article examines the position of the American state in contemporary information and communication sector globalisation activities. Through an assessment of the role played by the United States in Uruguay…
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Stormy Weather: Grid-connected Solar and Wind Energy in Victoria
This article deals with the treatment of grid-connected solar and wind energy in the Australian state of Victoria during the period from the mid-1970s to 1994. Traditionally, electricity authorities and…
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Plant Pathology in Western Australia: The Contributions of an Australian Woman Scientist
Very few women after the second World War made agricultural science their first career choice. Olga May Goss, however, in her 35 years in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture,…
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A Contextualising, Socio-technical Definition of Technology: Learning from Ancient Greece and Foucault
The task of defining technology has had an unhappy history. It seems that agreement about what technology is—and even if a definition should be sought at all—has not been reached.…