Volume 23 Issue 3 (2005)
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Attitudes to Error and Patient Safety
The vast majority of patients clearly benefit from modern health care. However, the rate of injury and death inadvertently caused by medical treatment remains too high, and exacts enormous human…
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Innovation, Skill Needs and Training in a Rural Community
Difficult challenges face the Gannawarra Shire in northern Victoria, including competing increasingly in global markets, environmental degradation and changing consumer preferences. Education, training and skill development are one way of…
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Inter‐firm Migration of Tacit Knowledge: Law and Policy
Much knowledge is diffused by the exchange of property rights in intangibles. But tacit knowledge, not being subject to property rights, is instead diffused by migration of knowledgeable individuals between…
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Should the Knowledge‐based Economy be a Savant or a Sage? Wisdom and Socially Intelligent Innovation
Discourse about knowledge‐based economies rarely moves beyond the commercialization of science and engineering, and is locked in the discursive limits of functionalism. We argue that these discourses limit the scope…
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Japonica Rice: Intellectual Property, Scientific Publishing and Data‐sharing
This article examines a series of controversies within the life sciences over data sharing. Part 1 focuses upon the agricultural biotechnology firm Syngenta publishing data on the rice genome in…