Volume 9 Issue 2 (1991)
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AGROBIOTECHNOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA: ISSUES OF CONTROL, COLLABORATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
To date, the debate on agrobiotechnological change in Australia has focused largely on the commercial aspects, and more recently the regulatory aspects, of the technology. Policy-makers have relied heavily on…
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TRADITIONAL AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY POLICY: WHAT WENT WRONG
Australian manufacturing industry is generally considered to be uncompetitive because of its years of protection from imports. On the other hand, protectionist strategies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan appear…
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CAPTURING REGIONAL BENEFITS FROM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: THE QUESTION OF REGIONAL APPROPRIABILITY
The term ‘appropriability’ usually refers to the ability of a business entity to capture benefits from its investment in science and technology. In this paper it is suggested that governments…
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PRINCIPAL-AGENT PROBLEMS AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY
Over the past decade the advertising business has been going through structural upheavals rather similar to those that have been seen in the financial services industry, with the emergence of…
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ROAD TRANSPORT INFORMATICS: CHALLENGING THE FREEDOM OF THE ROADS?
The latest workers to be affected by new computer and communication technologies are those whose workplace is the road — truck drivers, bus and taxi drivers, travelling salespeople, and even…
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YOUNG WORKERS IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY FIRMS: OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES
Australian industries and Australian workers are regularly exhorted to embrace new technologies, while successful high technology firms are held up for emulation. The purpose of this study was to develop…
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UNINVITED GUESTS: A THERMODYNAMIC APPROACH TO RESOURCE ALLOCATION
A theory of resource allocation is emerging from the science of nonequilibrium thermodynamics (NET). The deterministic and reductionist version of NET (DARNET), like neoclassical economics, is functionally simple; however, unlike…
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STATE AND COMMONWEALTH CO-OPERATION IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
This paper addresses the problems of co-ordination and co-operation between the Commonwealth and State Governments in the delivery of science and technology (S&T) policy in Australia. Commonwealth industrial development strategies…
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WHY AUSTRALIA FAILS TO EXPLOIT PUBLICLY FUNDED R&D
One of the challenges facing our scientific, research and commercial communities is how to optimise the economic benefit from the substantial amount of public funds which are invested in R&D.…