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scale intensive than in earlier stages of the innovation process. The UK and Australian economies present an interesting … firms in Australia and the UK. Timing of entry models are developed and tested. The different economic contexts, however …
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Managers often see new organizational design as the solution to many problems. This paper explores the relationship between organization structure (design), functioning of organizations, and effectiveness. A study of 320 companies showed that the structural variable, decentralization, marginally...
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Strong market orientation is essential to firm success. In the diverse and dynamic digital environment, a strong market orientation philosophy is even more important to the digital entrepreneur. We explore the advantages and challenges that the networked world offers the market-oriented digital...
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area of telecommunications policy in Australia but this feature of discourse is often taken for granted or not seen as …. Since many countries have been swept up in the enthusiasm for a telecommunications-based future, lessons from Australia may … expectations met in the areas of competition and universal service. In spite of this, some of Telecom Australia's views expressed …
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Research and development (R&D) is presented not as a primary source of local economic activity but as secondary to fundamental factors influencing corporate survival in small economies. The increasing difficulties of demonstrating causality between levels of Industrial R&D (IRD) expenditure and...
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Very few women after the second World War made agricultural science their first career choice. Olga May Goss, however, in her 35 years in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture, saved more than one industry from ruin, thus contributing in no small measure to the economic prosperity of...
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Australia spends proportionally more on university R&D, particularly when compared with business expenditure on R … commercialisation of Australian university research results is vital if Australia is to obtain the best economic results from its … which university research commercialisation is conducted in Australia in order to identify the key components of the …
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Many Western countries have experienced the 'rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve', leading to a rise in life expectancy. This process is the result of falling death rates, which leads to increasing longevity. In this article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of...
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This paper examines the role of several learning mechanisms for innovation performance, particularly their relevance … for different types of innovation. Although the innovation drivers have been extensively discussed in the literature, more … evidence is needed to verify that specific innovation outputs rely on specific knowledge sources. Based on the European …
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The paper discusses the relationship between learning, innovation and (institutional) reflexivity. It is often held … that reflexivity is a crucial factor for learning and innovation processes. However, a rather formalistic approach to … also inhibit innovation. This is especially the case when reflexive tools are abused to push performance only. In order to …
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