Volume 26 Issue 4 (2008)
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The Birth of the Biotechnology Era: Penicillin in Australia, 1943–80
As Australia and other countries seek to establish biotechnology industries, it is timely to review successes and failures in this field. One of the most notable stories is the development…
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The Ignorance Economy
The purpose of this article is to investigate the concept of ignorance. The article employs ignorance and related writings on the lack of knowledge and new Information and Communication Technologies…
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Data Wealth, Data Poverty, Science and Cyberinfrastructure
Changes in access to data are leading to rapid ‘data wealth’ in some scientific fields, even as others remain ‘data‐poor’. Furthermore, the current attention towards developing computer‐based infrastructures and digital…
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Towards a Cultural Economy Paradigm for the Australian Wine Industry
The twenty‐first century wine industry is a very different one from that which dominated operations in the 1980s and 1990s. Production, distribution and marketing of wine are now colonised by…