This article applies the concept of “innovation territories” to explain the recent export success of the Australian Wine Industry. Recent data collected from four “New World” wine producing countries are contrasted in order to investigate “innovation territories” that in the...

The twenty-first century wine industry is a very different one from that which dominated operations in the 1980s and 1990s. Production, distribution and marketing of wine are now colonised by an array of complex and intersecting dynamics. Primary among these is a growing demand among consumers...

Australia's phenomenal success in developing as a global wine exporter deserves more attention from the point of view of economic and competitiveness strategy. Its success embodies the expectations of the Triple Helix that there will be institutions explicitly oriented towards developing end...

Three specific recent developments in the evaluation of UK university research — the Research Assessment Exercise, the common performance indicators for the research councils, and the ‘evaluation portfolio’ of the Economic and Social Research Council — are described, and how they work in...