Volume 25 Issue 4 (2007)
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Technological Change and the Form of Science Research Teams: Dealing with the Digitals
During the late 1990s, photography moved from being a primarily analogue medium to being an almost entirely digital medium. The development of digital cameras and software for working with photographs…
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Technology Transfer and IPR Policy for Small and Medium Firms in South‐East Asia
In theory, small and medium firms have much to gain from the intellectual property rights system: in practice, SMEs have trouble using the IPR system. Yet the developing world is…
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The Use of Touch‐Screen Technology for Health‐Related Information in Indigenous Communities: Some Economic Issues
The low health status of indigenous communities in Australia, and other countries, has been a continuing societal problem. One way to improve health status involves the provision of health‐related information.…
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Community Mental Health Services as a Process Innovation: Appropriate Economic Evaluation
This article considers the relevant framework for evaluating a major process innovation in mental health services, viz. community‐based service provision. Such services involve multiple inputs from various channels (or departments)…
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‘Broncoing’: A Uniquely Australian Cattle‐Handling Technology
The early Anglo‐Celtic settlers in Australia arrived with a ‘cattle‐culture’ developed in Britain over many centuries, but their cattle‐handling technology proved inadequate for the unique conditions of Australia and new…
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Review Article: The Rise of Studying Happiness, but what of the Shadow of Unhappiness from Mental Illness?
This essay is concerned with describing some issues associated with a relatively recent development in economics, viz. the economics of happiness literature. After providing a very brief account of the…