Volume 6 Issue 1 (1988)
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ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE SELECTION OF GENERIC TECHNOLOGIES
A vast array of new processes and product innovations can arise from a single broad-based generic technology such as biotechnology. A small country like Australia faces some difficult choices in…
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COMMUNICATIONS — AN ANTIPODEAN EXERCISE
Events in Italy and the rest of the world were confirming Pareto’s predictions … [T]he national government was incapacitated by indecision … It was in this milieu that Italian fascism…
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SELECTIVITY IN FUNDING: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA
Selectivity and concentration in research funding has become unavoidable in Australia today. Some of the reasons for this are reviewed relative to international economic, scientific/technical and conceptual developments. The resulting…
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THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: COMPUTOPIA, DYSTOPIA, MYOPIA
As the twenty-first century approaches … the possibilities of a univerally opulent society being realised have appeared in the sense that [Adam] Smith envisioned it, and the information society that…
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R&D PROJECT ASSESSMENT AS AN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION PROCESS
The paper has three main objectives, viz, to emphasize the need for informed project assessment as central to the effective management of R&D by Australian businesses; to argue that different…
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A ‘MULTI-FUNCTION-POLIS’ FOR AUSTRALIA
MITI has proposed a $5-10 billion ‘Multi-Function-Polis’ in Australia. The functions would include high technology, recurrent adult education, resort and leisure, and cultural exchange. It would become a forum for…
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NEW MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY: ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN LOST OPPORTUNITY?
Three megatechnologies will dominate the last decade of the 20th Century: Information Technology, Biotechnology and New Materials Technology. New materials have been the least well publicized, yet they play a…
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THE EFFECTIVE PATENT LIFE OF PHARMACEUTICALS IN NEW ZEALAND — A SIMULATION
This paper estimates effective patent life of pharmaceuticals in New Zealand (NZ EPL). A simulation technique is used based on the linking effect of the International Convention for the Protection…