This thesis has been supported by an ARC Industry Linkage grant and sought to explain the process of adoption of information technologies by comparing two main theories that have been developed to explain adoption of innovations, that of innovation diffusion and that of actor network theory. In...

Three studies report estimates of the cost and effectiveness of alternate strategies for screening the average-risk Australian population for colorectal cancer. The options considered are faecal occult blood testing, double contrast barium enema, sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy. At present, there...

As countries, Canada and Australia have much in common. There is a shared heritage as new world British colonies and accordingly a similar culture, governmental institutions, living conditions, health and educational standards. Australia is somewhat smaller than Canada- its population of about...

The previous paper3 provided a comparison of the biomedical sectors in Australia and Canada based heavily on an analysis of biomedical alliances as well as a broader range of indicators. The analysis suggested that the industry in Canada is much larger and more substantially integrated into the...

As countries, Canada and Australia have much in common. There is a shared heritage as new world British colonies and accordingly a similar culture, governmental institutions, living conditions, health and educational standards. Australia is somewhat smaller than Canada - its population of about...

Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry raises structural questions for the participants about their future roles. New technologies, and especially biotechnology, have made the industry structure more complex. Broadly speaking these technologies have been directed at two problems. One is...

The World Health Organisation's (WHO) approach to the measurement of health system efficiency is briefly described. Four arguments are then presented. First, equity of finance should not be a criterion for the evaluation of a health system and, more generally, the same objectives and importance...

The purpose of this paper is to examine possible development paths for Australia's indigenous biomedical industry. The Australian biomedical industry has a number of components. It includes some of the R&D and other activities of the major foreign owned pharmaceutical companies. It also includes...

Alliances in business have a long history, but over the past couple of decades they have become an important feature of business organisation to such an extent that Dunning, a prominent researcher of multinational enterprises since the 1950's, has described this new trend which gives increased...

The pharmaceutical industry is highly complex. The technologies leading to drug discovery and development are at the limits of human knowledge. The huge size of the companies and the complexities of their processes and technologies presents many organisational and management challenges. The...