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Chain Entanglements And Fracture Energy In Interfaces Between Immiscible Polymers, Leonardo Silvestri, Hugh Ralph Brown, Stefano Carra, Sergio Carra Jan 2003

Chain Entanglements And Fracture Energy In Interfaces Between Immiscible Polymers, Leonardo Silvestri, Hugh Ralph Brown, Stefano Carra, Sergio Carra

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

It is a very well-known experimental fact that the toughness of interfaces obtained by joining pairs of immiscible glassy polymers is strongly correlated to the interfacial width. Several models have been proposed in the literature to estimate the fracture energy of these interfaces, but the agreement displayed with the experimental data cannot be considered satisfactory. In this paper a new model is proposed for polymers with molecular weight higher than the critical value for the onset of entanglements. The model is based on a precise and realistic calculation of the areal density of entangled strands across the interface, that is …

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A Multifaceted Approach To Distributed Communities Of Learning And Practice, Helen Hasan, Kate Crawford Jan 2003

A Multifaceted Approach To Distributed Communities Of Learning And Practice, Helen Hasan, Kate Crawford

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In the electronic age, locally-driven regeneration of the concept of community could be enabled by a flexible, multifaceted model where new information and communication technologies are the catalyst. However technology, no matter how advanced, is far from providing the complete answer and it is essential to take an integrated socio-technical approach to this issue. This paper reports on two cases that are part of ongoing research into distributed communities, framing them as phases of an activity system in expansive learning cycles in the context of a program of innoyatiye learning. This research d!monstrates that such communities are viable. with a …

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Cracks In The Egg: Improving Performance Measures In Business Incubator Research, Barbara Cornelius, Rekha Bhabra-Remedios Jan 2003

Cracks In The Egg: Improving Performance Measures In Business Incubator Research, Barbara Cornelius, Rekha Bhabra-Remedios

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Early research into business incubators focused on describing how they were operated and what activities were undertaken to assist in the survival of tenant firms. The only measures of effective operation were based upon the economic agenda of those sponsoring the incubators, that is, whether jobs were created and firms successfully developed beyond the protected incubator environment. The theoretical considerations used by researchers were, as a consequence, limited largely to either economic or fmancial models of performance. Much can be learned, however, from the management literature, which examines performance through organisational theory. It is suggested that further research into incubator …

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Visual Creativity In Advertising: A Functional Typology, John R. Rossiter, Tobias Langner, Lawrence Ang Jan 2003

Visual Creativity In Advertising: A Functional Typology, John R. Rossiter, Tobias Langner, Lawrence Ang

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

There are many ways in which the visuals of an advertisement can be made "creative." In this article, we propose a new typology of visual creative ideas. The typology is functlonal in that the first type, literal product or user visuals, which are "noncreative" in the usual sense gain selective attention, by a product category-involved audience. The other three types, in contrast, are "creative" and can force reflexive attention among low-involved audiences. These are called pure attention getters, including the innate erotic, baby, and direct-gaze schemas, and the learned shock, celebrity, and culture-icon and subculture-icon schemas; distortional attention getters, including …

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Government Business Process Analysis With Activity Theory, Peter A. J Larkin Jan 2003

Government Business Process Analysis With Activity Theory, Peter A. J Larkin

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Activity Theory tells us that a motivated person or group performs an activity directed at an object in order to transform the object into desired outcomes to fulfil a need. It also tells us that instruments and the community mediate human activity. The New South Wales state parliament in Australia performs the activity of creating Acts and those Acts prescribe within them the objects of the Act and the desired outcomes. To achieve the desired outcomes, the Act will establish or constitute the necessary instruments. This paper describes an application of Yrjo Engestrom's Activity Theory model, or structure of human …

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Increasing Acceptance Of Managers For The Use Of Marketing Decision Support Systems, Danielle Stern Jan 2003

Increasing Acceptance Of Managers For The Use Of Marketing Decision Support Systems, Danielle Stern

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

There have been many investigations into decision support systems and the range of benefits they can provide to an organisation. Despite the increased use of these systems in professional practice, there remains a lack of acceptance towards marketing decision models, with many managers resisting their full implementation. This paper presents results of a task designed to explore the extent to which decision models are understood. Although findings show low levels of understanding, it appears that relevant ability and skill can be learned. Educational programs could use the task to raise awareness of problems related to human misjudgment and to demonstrate …

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Political Corruption In South Korea, Hyung-A Kim Jan 2003

Political Corruption In South Korea, Hyung-A Kim

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The exposure of corporate corruption at the heart of the industrial "advanced" world,with the 2001 collapse of Emon and many other multinational corporations,makes it clear that the problem of corruption is not confined to Asia or developing countries but is universal. The Korean case of political corruption poses one of the most interesting case studies of the role and impact of corruption in newly industrializing countries in Asia. With big conglomerate business,chaebol,as the foundation of its rapid industrialization structure,Korea brought about an industrial revolution within just three decades. The chaebol were seen as 'industrial warriors' in the 1970s. In the …

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Colonial Companies, Indentured Labour And Imperialism 1860-1940, Robert Castle, James Hagan, Andrew D. Wells Jan 2003

Colonial Companies, Indentured Labour And Imperialism 1860-1940, Robert Castle, James Hagan, Andrew D. Wells

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The literature on modem imperialism is both immense and inconclusive. The defInition, central facts, archival sources, methods, theories and implications of 'imperialism' are subject to endless contestation. The doyen of Australian liberal historiography, WK Hancock, was moved to warn nearly half a century ago, 'Imperialism is no word for scholars'. Despite his assertion the scholarly and polemical debates continued unabated.

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Living In The Blender Of Change: The Carnival Of Control In A Culture Of Culture, R. Badham, Karin Garrety Jan 2003

Living In The Blender Of Change: The Carnival Of Control In A Culture Of Culture, R. Badham, Karin Garrety

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Traditional structural-functional approaches to organisational change, as well as critics of those approaches , often offer overly structured and rationalised views of how change occurs. This paper attempts to build upon processual studies of change and critiques of overly hegemonic views of managerial control by seeking to capture the complex, emotive and fluid character of organisational ‘changing’. In pursuit of this aim, the paper documents these characteristics of change through a personalised ethnography of a micro-incident – a critical change meeting – in an Australian steelmaking plant undergoing cultural change. In conclusion, it is argued that even the more sophisticated …

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Market Research In Austrian Nto And Rtos: Is The Research Homework Done Before Spending Marketing Millions?, Sara Dolnicar, C. M. Schoesser Jan 2003

Market Research In Austrian Nto And Rtos: Is The Research Homework Done Before Spending Marketing Millions?, Sara Dolnicar, C. M. Schoesser

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In times of an increasingly competitive tourism marketplace and when experienced tourists are both capable and motivated to find the offer that best matches their personal vacation needs, market research becomes one of the fundamental building blocks of success, not only for the tourism industry, but also for a destination. The aim of this empirical study that follows the tradition of the studies by Yaman & Shaw (1998) and Ryan & Simmons (1999) is to explore both the importance of market research as perceived by the Austrian National Tourism Organisation (NTO) and the nine Regional Tourism Organisations (RTOs) and the …

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Accounting For Intellectual Assets And Liabilities, Indra Abeysekera Jan 2003

Accounting For Intellectual Assets And Liabilities, Indra Abeysekera

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper is an addition to the current debate on how to measure and recognise intellectual assets and liabilities. A conceptual approach has been proposed so that intellectual assets and liabilities can be recognised in the financial statements using market value as a reference point acknowledging that intellectual assets and liability items cannot be measured accurately to recognise them individually. It was constructed using the common ground between financial reporting and intellectual assets and liability management. It has used an intellectual assets definition, an intellectual assets indicator at an organizational level, the Australian conceptual framework in accounting and recently published …

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Perceptions Of Responsibility For Clinical Risk Management – Evidence From Orthopaedics Practitioners, Practice Managers And Patients In An Australian Capital City, S. Andrew, M. Barrett Jan 2003

Perceptions Of Responsibility For Clinical Risk Management – Evidence From Orthopaedics Practitioners, Practice Managers And Patients In An Australian Capital City, S. Andrew, M. Barrett

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The paper describes a study of three groups: patients, orthopaedic surgeons and the surgeons’ practice managers, concerning three types of legal risk associated with duty of care: failure to follow up, failure to warn and failure to diagnose. The study found there is cause for concern about doctors’ follow-up and documentation of patient care. Doctors may be unaware of the Australian courts’ propensity to emphasise practitioner responsibility rather than patient autonomy. A further important result is the considerable disparity between doctors’ views and the views of their practice managers. The paper draws implications for improved risk awareness and further research.

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Corporate Governance And The Family Business: Managing The Paradoxes, M. Barrett, K. Moore Jan 2003

Corporate Governance And The Family Business: Managing The Paradoxes, M. Barrett, K. Moore

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

When we did the primary research for our book Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways*, we talked to many owners of family businesses at different stages of the business life cycle. In the course of talking to them, we noticed that family business owners would say that their business was "just like any other business". But then they would always follow this with the word "except…" and then go on to describe something which suggests that family businesses are very unlike other businesses. This is not altogether surprising. After all, a family and a business are both systems that do …

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Telling Tales: Authoring Narratives Of Organizational Change, Patrick M. Dawson, David Buchanan Jan 2003

Telling Tales: Authoring Narratives Of Organizational Change, Patrick M. Dawson, David Buchanan

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The aim of this paper is to explore the challenges of authoring case study narratives of organizational change in a processual perspective. Most theoretical and managerial accounts of change are narrative-based. They tend to begin with a problem period, then describe interventions, and end with an assessment of outcomes and 'lessons'. However, in the construction of coherent and credible narratives, the voices of competing accounts of change may be silenced. Evidence suggests that accounts of change compete on at least four dimensions, concerning assessments, interpretations, facts, and audiences. The framework developed by Deetz (1996) is used to illustrate how narratives …

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Winter Tourist Segments In Austria - Identifying Stable Vacation Styles Using Bagged Clustering Techniques, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch Jan 2003

Winter Tourist Segments In Austria - Identifying Stable Vacation Styles Using Bagged Clustering Techniques, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Market segmentation is a very popular and broadly accepted way of increasing profitability. The number of reports published on a posteriori market segmentation studies has rapidly increased since Russel Haley’s milestone publication on benefit segmentation in 1968. Nevertheless, it is common practice in market segmentation to use a single segmentation base only, thus choosing the main dimensions of interest a priori, and to run a single calculation of a single algorithm, which dramatically increases the chance of building an entire marketing plan on a random solution of the algorithm chosen. The application presented constructs winter vacation styles on the basis …

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August 26, 2001 Two Or Three Things Australians Don't Seem To Want To Know About 'Asylum Seekers', Ian Buchanan Jan 2003

August 26, 2001 Two Or Three Things Australians Don't Seem To Want To Know About 'Asylum Seekers', Ian Buchanan

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The road to war began with an incident at sea, as it has so many times in the past - the sinking of the Lusitania, Pearl Harbour, the Gulf of Tonkin, and so on. History will have to record that Australia’s involvement in the ‘War on Terror’ and the ‘War against Iraq’ began on August 26, 2001 when the MV Tampa rescued 433 asylum seekers from the sinking ferryboat, Palapa 1. It will then have to explain how this essentially humanitarian act could trigger so bellicose a response. To do this, it will not be enough to condemn the cynical …

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Illusions Of Whistleblower Protection, Brian Martin Jan 2003

Illusions Of Whistleblower Protection, Brian Martin

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The most common response to the problems facing whistleblowers is to suggest better whistleblower legislation. Yet it is remarkable how ineffectual such legislation is. Not only are whistleblower laws flawed through exemptions and in-built weaknesses, but in their implementation they are rarely helpful. Indeed, it might be said that whistleblower laws give only the appearance of protection, creating an illusion that is dangerous for whistleblowers who put their trust in law rather than developing skills to achieve their goals more directly.

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Pig Pharma: Psychiatric Agenda Setting By Drug Companies, Sharon Beder, R. Gosden, L. R. Mosher Jan 2003

Pig Pharma: Psychiatric Agenda Setting By Drug Companies, Sharon Beder, R. Gosden, L. R. Mosher

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The development of political agenda-setting through the use of sophisticated public relations techniques is threatening to undermine the delicate balance of representative democracy. This has important ramifications for policies aimed at providing mental health services and the implementation of mental health laws. The principal agenda setters in this area are pharmaceutical companies with commercial reasons to promote public policies that expand the sales of their products. They have manufactured highly effective advocacy coalitions that incorporate front groups in order to set the policy agenda for mental health. However, policies tailored to their commercial purpose are not necessarily beneficial either for …

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Re-Mastering The Ghosts: Mudrooroo And Gothic Refigurations, Gerry Turcotte Jan 2003

Re-Mastering The Ghosts: Mudrooroo And Gothic Refigurations, Gerry Turcotte

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

[Extract] This paper discusses the question of the Gothic mode as it has been used to construct a eurocentric notion of Aboriginality, though its emphasis is on the way the mode has been turned on its head, as it were, by Mudrooroo, to produce an oppositional, revisionist discourse that works to undermine European historiography. The principal examples in this reading will be Master of the Ghost Dreaming (1991) and The Undying (1998), which locate their ghost and vampire tales at the site of the invasion of Australia by Europeans, and around a battle which was frequently effected through missionary activities. …

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Social Institutions In East Timor: Following In The Undemocratic Footsteps Of The West, L. Carson, Brian Martin Jan 2003

Social Institutions In East Timor: Following In The Undemocratic Footsteps Of The West, L. Carson, Brian Martin

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

When East Timor gained its formal independence in 2002, an opportunity existed for the new country to establish innovative participatory practices in governance, defence and its economy. These alternatives are based on the principles and practices of inclusive, deliberative democracy and assume that citizens have the capacity to control their own society. However, East Timor defaulted to known systems: representative government, a military force and a market-based economy. The reasons for this institutional conservatism include unfamiliarity with alternatives, influence and example of dominant systems, and the interests of East Timorese elites.

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Book Review - Kate Langdon Forhan, The Political Theory Of Christine De Pizan, Louise D'Arcens Jan 2003

Book Review - Kate Langdon Forhan, The Political Theory Of Christine De Pizan, Louise D'Arcens

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Christine de Pizan scholars are familiar with Kate Langdon Forhan’s many valuable contributions to the growing research into Christine’s political writings. In The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan Forhan seeks to bring Christine’s work to the attention of a new audience, political theorists, in order to ensure a place for her within the mainstream history of political theory. In so doing she continues the worthy task already underway in her translation of Christine’s Book of the Body Politic for Cambridge’s Texts in the History of Political Thought series, and her Medieval Political Theory reader, co-edited with Cary Nederman. In …

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Interpretation And Skill: On Passing Theory, David I. Simpson Jan 2003

Interpretation And Skill: On Passing Theory, David I. Simpson

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

In this paper I want to explore Donald Davidson’s rejection of the use of the concept of language, when the knowledge of a language is taken as a sufficient and/or necessary condition for communicative understanding. After sketching the original presentation of the argument, I will then look at what I take to be the major weakness of that version – the argument against language as a necessary condition – and at Davidson’s more recent attempts to shore up the story in that area by way of the ‘triangulation’ thesis. After criticising that attempt, I will try to show that Davidson’s …

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Speaking Up And Talking Back: News Media Interventions In Sydney's 'Othered' Communities, Tanja Dreher Jan 2003

Speaking Up And Talking Back: News Media Interventions In Sydney's 'Othered' Communities, Tanja Dreher

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Since August 2001, Arab and Muslim communities in Sydney's western suburbs have been caught up in a spiral of signification that linked 'gang' activity in the area to the standoff over asylum seekers aboard the MV Tampa , a federal election campaign fought on the theme of 'border protection' and global news reporting of September 11 and the 'war on terror'. Many people who live and work in the Bankstown area responded to this intense news media scrutiny by developing community-based media interventions that aimed to shift the mainstream news agenda. Through media skills training, forums, events and cultural production, …

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Authenticated Electronic Editions Project, Graham Barwell, Chris Tiffin, Phillip Berrie, Paul Eggert Jan 2003

Authenticated Electronic Editions Project, Graham Barwell, Chris Tiffin, Phillip Berrie, Paul Eggert

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Phill Berrie and I have been involved for several years with Chris Tiffin and Graham Barwell in a project that fills in a gaping hole. We take a longterm view about the survival prospects and the ongoing accuracy of scholarly electronic editions. Even when created using a standardised and widely accepted markup system, and even if not tied to proprietary software, electronic editions face an uncertain future. Electronic texts can be copied and modified effortlessly; the modification may be accidental, perverse, for the purpose of adjusting text or, more likely, adding markup for a new scholarly purpose. In addition, disaster …

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Activity As A Unit Of Analysis For Knowledge Management Frameworks, Leoni Warne, Irena Ali, Helen Hasan Jan 2003

Activity As A Unit Of Analysis For Knowledge Management Frameworks, Leoni Warne, Irena Ali, Helen Hasan

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The authors of this paper take the view that knowledge management is a set of practices for systematically adding value to the knowlege of individuals, which is generated and shaped through interaction with others. It is therefore appropriate that knowledge management research be conducted in the context of particular organisations, focusing on local activities. To that end two of the authors have conducted a four-year research program investigating the factors in organizations that enhance and enable the assimilation, generation, sharing and building of knowledge that transfonns an organization into a learning organization. Human activities in organisational contexts have been analysed …

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Social Reporting By The Tobacco Industry: All Smoke And Mirrors?, Lee C. Moerman, Sandra Van Der Laan Jan 2003

Social Reporting By The Tobacco Industry: All Smoke And Mirrors?, Lee C. Moerman, Sandra Van Der Laan

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In July 2002 British American Tobacco, one of the largest private multinational corporations involved in tobacco production and marketing, launched their first social report. Using a process of stakeholder engagement, global reporting initiatives and process auditing the report was delivered just before the release of the World Health Organisation initiative, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Within the corporate social reporting literature there is a belief that to give account serves as a legitimising device for organisational activity thus bridging the divide between the social and economic realm. The tobacco industry has been heavily criticised, particularly in Western society, for …

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An Exploratory Study Of Internationalization Strategies Of Malaysian And Taiwanese Firms, Ah Ba Sim, J Rajendran Pandian Jan 2003

An Exploratory Study Of Internationalization Strategies Of Malaysian And Taiwanese Firms, Ah Ba Sim, J Rajendran Pandian

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

There is as yet limited empirical research on the internationalization processes, strategies and operations of Asian MNEs from countries at different levels of development. Drawing on primary data from matched case studies of emergin Taiwanese and Malaysian MNEs in the textiile and electronics industries, this paper examines and analyses their internationalization characteristics and strategies within the IDP perspective. The findings indicate that the emerging Taiwanese and Malaysian MNEs, while exhibiting characteristics such as that described in extant theories also suggest some differences. The empirical findings, limitations and areas fro further research are discussed.

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How Many Jobs Were Lost With The Collapse Of Ansett?, Abbas Valadkhani Jan 2003

How Many Jobs Were Lost With The Collapse Of Ansett?, Abbas Valadkhani

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The objective of this paper is to determine the adverse impact of the collapse of Ansett on employment using the latest Australian input-output table. The indirect contribution of the collapse of Ansett to the creation of unemployment in various industries is quantified by adopting the "shut-down of industry" approach. Ansett operated within the air and space transport industry which possesses strong backward and forward linkages. It is found that due to sectoral multiplier and flow-on effects each job lost in such an important sector leads to a loss of approximately 3 extra jobs in the economy as a whole. The …

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Utilitarian And Hedonic Value Across Fulfillment-Product Categories Of Internet Shopping, Julie E. Francis, Lesley White Jan 2003

Utilitarian And Hedonic Value Across Fulfillment-Product Categories Of Internet Shopping, Julie E. Francis, Lesley White

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Extant Internet shopping literature identifies potential sources, and inhibitors, of utilitarian and hedonic value for consumers. However, Internet shopping is oftentimes treated as a relatively homogenous activity or the insights are accompanied by inexact qualifications such as 'in some situations' or 'for some types of products'. The present study enhances these insights in two ways. Firstly, the authors developed a Fulfillment-Product classification scheme that segments Internet shopping situations on the basis of shared marketing-relevant characteristics. Secondly, the study provides a more detailed analysis than has to date been performed by examining the sources and inhibitors of utilitarian and hedonic value …

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A Missing Variable: Evaluating The Institutional Impact From Participating In Government Supported Cross Sector R & D Programs, Samuel Garrett-Jones, Tim Turpin Jan 2003

A Missing Variable: Evaluating The Institutional Impact From Participating In Government Supported Cross Sector R & D Programs, Samuel Garrett-Jones, Tim Turpin

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

A key feature of government interventions in support of national innovation in recent decades has been investment in cross sector R&D programs. One of the mechanisms for such action has been the institutionalisation of collaboration through the creation of cooperative research centres. In Australia the cooperative research centres (CRCs) program has become one of the nation’s biggest single budget S&T investment strategy. This has led to increasing efforts to evaluate the program in terms of its overall objectives, the objectives of individual centres and individual centre research programs. However, the institutional objectives of the partners involved in CRCs tend to …

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