Volume 16 Issue 1 (1998)
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Gender Differences in Wage Returns to Computer Skills in Australia
This article examines how different types of computer skills influence the wages of men and women in Australia. The estimated wage effect for each type of computer use ranged from…
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Half Way Home in Electric Vehicles: A Strategic Reassessment
The time originally allotted in 1990 by the California legislature for the introduction of commercializable zero-emissions vehicles is about half gone. Using frameworks developed to help analyze product substitution dynamics…
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Information Subsidies, Journalism Routines and the Australian Media: Market Liberalization versus Marketplace of Ideas
Information technology is invariably equated with liberalization and greater citizen access to knowledge. However, some economies of scale made possible by technology, together with contemporary information-gathering and distribution processes, may…
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Driving the Hard Bargain for Australian R&D
This article evaluates the long-standing argument that Australian R&D levels are low because of the restrictions imposed by scale economies in production. In so doing, it is assumed that there…
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Future Development of New Zealand’s Science and Technology System
A new science system was set up in Mew Zealand from 1989–97, and it is now time to focus on its future development. Further development of Mew Zealand’s science system…
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Explaining Television Stations’ Preferences for Imported Drama Programs
The article attempts to explain the apparent discrepancy between strong opposition to the minimum quota for Australian domestic drama and the regular supply of domestic drama in excess of the…
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Science, Technology and Democracy on the STS Agenda: Review Article
Irwin’s ‘Citizen Science’ and Sclove’s ‘Technology and Democracy’ represent two important recent attempts, from different precincts of the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), to explore the democratization of…