Volume 18 Issue 4 (2000)
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Catalyzing Research Competitiveness: The Georgia Research Alliance
Virtually everywhere, there is governmental interest in developing and using science and technology as a tool for economic development and other public purposes. States within the United States look to…
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Priority Setting and Resource Allocation in Australian Biomedical Research: Muddling with Some Skill
Examined here are models of resource allocation adopted by Australia’s premier biomedical research funding council, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), since pressure to make research more ‘relevant’…
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Online Gambling: Challenges to National Sovereignty and Regulation
Online gambling utilises advanced telecommunications technology to provide access to gambling across national borders, presenting unprecedented opportunities for industry and new challenges for government regulation and national sovereignty. It also…
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New Products of the 1980s and 1990s: The Diffusion of Household Technology in the Decade 1985-1995
The management of our households and the way we spend our leisure time has been greatly influenced by the introduction of various household technologies in the 1980s and 1990s. This…
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Classification of Industries by Level of Technology: An Appraisal and some Implications
Modern growth theory acknowledges that a country’s economic prosperity depends in large part on its capacity for technological innovation. Empirical evidence, however, supports the view that not all sectors are…
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Emerging Bioinformatic Networks: Contesting the Public Meaning of Private and the Private Meaning of Public
This paper explores the complexity of public/private identities in the emerging global economies of gene sequence mapping and analysis. In so doing we seek to offer a less over-determined acccount…