Volume 17 Issue 3 (1999)
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Project Selection Models or Professional Autonomy?
Scholarship on managing professionals has emphasized the centrality of autonomy to industrial scientists in selecting research projects, but has proposed alternative selection models. This article describes the project selection processes…
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A Comparative Macro-level Assessment of New Zealand’s ‘National Innovation System’
It has been argued that the power of the concept of a ‘National Innovation System’ (NIS) lies in its comparative nature. Adopting this viewpoint, we provide a comparative snapshot of…
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Collaboration and Innovation Networks in Esprit
The Esprit Programme is the oldest and largest of the European Commission’s research and development programmes. Collaboration among participants is fundamental to all the projects that it supports. This collaboration…
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Exploring the Social Construction of IT Policy—Thailand and Singapore
This paper explores the nature of two IT policies, one in Singapore and one in Thailand. The analysis employed suggests that IT policies are socially constructed and thus reflect discourse…
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A National Linkage Program for Technological Innovation
A new perspective and conceptual framework of institutional linkages is explored and an institutional linkage model is developed. The model incorporates the linkage patterns and characterises major policy issues affecting…