Volume 21 Issue 3 (2003)
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Creating space in the global economy: Building a high tech dream in Malaysia
The globalisation of innovation has become a major issue in the discourses of economic development. There is a view that unfettered market forces will promote greater and better developmental outcomes…
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The Crisis of communication: Videotext, the internet and innovation in France and the United States
This article compares videotext in France and the United States, the two advanced industrialized countries where videotext was the most and least successful, respectively, in order to demonstrate how videotext…
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PhD student satisfaction with course experience and supervision in two Australian Research-intensive Universities
Over the past decade, Australian universities have experienced a dramatic expansion in PhD enrolments and in the proportion of female PhD candidates. This article assesses how well two major research-intensive…
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Globalization of Japanese culture: Economic power vs. cultural power, 1989-2002
This article examines the reasons why Japanese cultural products have not penetrated other countries. It also explicates the recent trends in Japan’s expansion of its cultural products and Japan’s direct…
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R&D in the United States department of homeland security
” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began full operations in March by consolidating nearly 180,000 federal employees from nearly two-dozen agencies into a single cabinet-level department . ” The…
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Rhetorical patterns in the Australian debate over war with Iraq
Considerable public debate surrounded the Bush Administration’s policy to invade Iraq if it did not dismantle its purported stockpile of ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ and the wisdom of Australian participation…