Volume 25 Issue 1 (2007)
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e‐Research Infrastructures and Open Science: Towards a New System of Knowledge Production?
Major efforts are currently under way to develop e‐infrastructures for research. At the same time, there have been a number of calls for research in the digital realm to foster…
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Nuclear Power and Antiterrorism: Obscuring the Policy Contradictions
Some governments are promoting both nuclear power and antiterrorism, but without much attention to connections between the two issues. Nuclear power increases the risk of nuclear terrorism directly and via…
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Knowledge and Cooperation for Regional Development: The Effect of Provincial and Federal Policy Initiatives in Canada and Australia
This paper examines how federal systems of government in Canada and Australia deal with the challenges of promoting regional innovation and knowledge‐based industries. It focuses on selected cases of federal…
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Australian Framework for the Commercialisation of University Scientific Research
Australia spends proportionally more on university R&D, particularly when compared with business expenditure on R&D, than almost any other advanced economy, which suggests that creating the right environment to encourage…
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Closing the Digital Divide: The Role of Services and Infrastructure in Bhutan
Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to the digital divides that exist between and within countries. Within developing countries, information and communication infrastructures are often limited. This paper…
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Fault Lines: Emerging Domains of Inertia within the Australian Wine Industry
It is common knowledge that the Australian wine industry has enjoyed remarkable success over the past three decades in terms of production and export growth, innovation and reputation for consistent…