John Steen is a senior lecturer in the University of Queensland. His research interests include strategy and innovation, and especially the small world characteristics of networks. Tim Kastelle is also a senior lecturer in the same place. He applies evolutionary economics to the management of...

<italic>This paper examines the factors that affect market dominance in a standards competition by comparing the VHS--Beta war in the 1980s with that between Blu-ray and HD-DVD in the 2000s. We first look at the changing home video market in terms of technological development. Then we move on to discuss...</italic>

<italic>This study explores the influences of institutions on high technology start-up innovation in China by taking into account both formal and informal institutions. Our research settings are two high technology parks in Wuxi and Shanghai, respectively. Drawing upon the theoretical lenses of...</italic>

Cultural studies seem to dominate the field of management and innovation in China. Researchers have defined and considered Confucianism and a number of common, transnational Asian/Chinese values and practices allegedly unifying China and parts of East Asia. These values and practices have been...

<italic>This paper discusses how the concept of experience goods could be integrated conceptually into innovation studies. Experience goods are distinguishable in that their value or utility cannot be determined until after they have been consumed. The concept encompasses an enormous variety of consumer...</italic>

This paper analyses how and why different types of innovation systems interact through analysing seven Australian sectors. We find that there are sets of mechanisms or systems that ‘articulate’; i.e. structure and shape the interaction among sectoral innovation systems and other types of...

Desmond Clarke is a library campaigner. He retired as president and chief executive of International Thomson Publishing Services Group, a division of the Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters) and is a former director of Faber and Faber.

The authors are economists working for the Australian consultancy, SGS Economics & Planning in Melbourne. In 2011, the company produced a report for the State Library of Victoria on the value of libraries. Shishir Saxena and Andrew McDougall were responsible for the research that went into this...