Volume 29 Issue 2 (2011)
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Managing innovation in the stem cell sciences: Australian views from the field
Recent research has shown that governments around the world are implementing a range of strategies intended to maximise national competitive advantage in the growing global stem cell bioeconomy. There are…
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Regenerative Medicine and New Labour life science policy: rhetorics of success, narratives of sustainability and survival
Advances in stem cell science and tissue engineering are being turned into applications and products through a novel medical paradigm known as regenerative medicine. This paper begins by examining the…
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The interaction between public and private R&D expenditure and national productivity
Starting from the epistemological position of the positive interaction between public and private R&D expenditures at country level for maintaining productivity growth, the purpose of this paper is to provide…
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Theoretical underpinnings and future directions of European Union research policy: a paradigm shift?
Emerging tendencies in research policy call forth the cohesion–competitiveness dichotomy and implicitly advocate the hollowing out of cohesion objectives from future European Union (EU) research policy design. We trace the…
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Managing academic freedom: recent cross-Atlantic developments
This paper charts the legal and institutional status of academic freedom in America after Garcetti v. Ceballos, a key First Amendment case decided by the US Supreme Court in 2006.…