Volume 17 Issue 1 (1999)
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The Web of Technology and People: Challenges for Economic and Social Research
The study of technology and people has gained acceptance as a field for social inquiry, but it has remained outside the mainstream of the major disciplines and is dealt with…
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R&D Funding in India: An Empirical Study
Although the national expenditure on R&D in India (as a percentage of GNP) is comparable with that of such developed countries as Australia and Canada, there is increasing concern that…
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Revisiting Intellectual Property Policy: Information Economics for the Information Age
Many aspects of intellectual property policy are based on neo-classical economic assumptions about the nature of information and the process of innovation. In particular the argument for stronger protection is…
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Between Supply and Demand: Permanent Skilled Migration to Australia
Research on skilled migration has dealt overwhelmingly with the contribution of migration to productivity growth, to changes in the income of migrants and the factors influencing their employment. Much less…
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The Four Largest South Korean Business Groups and Foreign Technology: Acquisition of Technology and Foreign Direct Investment
This paper deals with the acquisition of foreign technology and with foreign direct investment by the four largest South Korean business groups. Major conclusions are: (1) the groups successfully acquired…
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The Higher Moral Panic: Academic Scientism and its Quarrels with Science and Technology Studies
‘Higher Superstition’ calls for scientists to symbolically take up arms against an anti-science movement (the academic left) which it claims has taken over a large part of the social studies…