Articles

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Cross-sector research collaboration in Australia: the cooperative research centres program at the crossroads (with Tim Turpin and Richard Woolley), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)

In this article we trace changes in the institutional and social dynamics that have steered...

 
Managing competition between individual and organizational goals in cross-sector research and development centres (with Tim Turpin and Kieren Diment), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)

Research of potential socio-economic value is commonly conducted within cross-sector (government, university, business) centres. Success...

 

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Reward, risk and response in Australian Cooperative Research Centres (with T. Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)

Cooperative research centres are a well-established organizational embodiment of the ‘triple helix’. As complex inter-organizational...

 
Submission to the Review of the National Innovation System from the Innovation Research Network (with Ron Johnston, Lyndal Thorburn, Don Scott-Kemmis, John Howard, Ross Chapman, Richard Seymour, Christopher Witt, and Ian Marsh), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
 

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How Demographic Characteristics Affect Mode Preference in a Postal/Web Mixed-Mode Survey of Australian Researchers (with K. Diment), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

Early promise for the Internet as a tool to make social research questionnaires easier and...

 

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Knowledge and Cooperation for Regional Development: The Effect of Provincial and Federal Policy Initiatives in Canada and Australia, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

This paper examines how federal systems of government in Canada and Australia deal with the...

 

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Scientists, career choices and organisational change: Managing human resources in cross-sector R&D organisations (with T. Turpin and K. Diment), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2005)

The resource-based view of the firm has drawn attention to the role of human resources...

 
Book reviews: The entropy vector: connecting science and business by Robert D Handscombe and Eann A. Patterson, Singapore, World Scientific, 2004, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2005)

How ‘scientific’ can business management actually be? This thought-provoking volume from two Sheffield academics argues...

 

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Science for life: an evaluation of New Zealand's health research investment system based on international benchmarks (with Tim Turpin and Brian Wixted), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2004)

During the past decade there have been major developments in the way that research investments...

 

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Some international benchmarks for evaluating Australian health and medical research (with Brian Wixted and Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2004)

Recent experience in Australia has seen the requirement by the federal Department of Finance and...

 
International performance indicators for medical research: final report to NHMRC (with Brian Wixted and Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)
 
Mozambique: science, technology and knowledge indicators, 2003 - final report (with Brian Wixted and Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)
 

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Improving the system of financial incentives for enhancing Thailand's industrial technological capabilities (with Tim Turpin, Paul Robertson, Siracha Charoenpanij, and Peter Brimble), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)

This report provides a summary of current international experiences with financial incentives for supporting technology...

 

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The organisation of knowledge: optimising the role of universities in a Western Australian 'knowledge hub' (with Tim Turpin, Jane Marceau, Reg Appleyard, and Dora Marinova), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)

A feature of globally competitive knowledge-based economies is that governments, universities and industry work together...

 

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International trends in evaluating university research outcomes: what lessons for Australia, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2000)

An international study compared methods used to monitor and evaluate the outcomes of university research...

 

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Some recent developments in the evaluation of university research outcomes in the United Kingdom (with David K. Aylward), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2000)

Three specific recent developments in the evaluation of UK university research—the Research Assessment Exercise, the...

 

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Valuing University Research: International Experiences in Monitoring and Evaluating Research Outputs and Outcomes (with Tim Turpin, David K. Aylward, Gavin Speak, Robyn Iredale, and Susan E Cozzens), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2000)

This study was commissioned by ARC/DETYA to provide information and advice to assist them in...

 

Books

Indicadores de Ciencia e Tecnologia em Mocambique (with Tim Turpin, Brian Wixted, Adalberto Alberto, Roland Brouwer, Gilead Mlay, and Francisco Mausse), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)
 
Diversity and convergence: research funding and patterns of research activity in Australian universities (with Tim Turpin, David K. Aylward, Gavin Speak, Michael Gaffikin, Ron Johnston, and Roy MacLeod), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2000)

Updating and extending earlier work, (see Commissioned report no. 47), the study compares research inputs...

 

Contributions to Books

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‘Marking time?’ – The evolution of the Australian national innovation system, 1996-2005, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

This chapter reviews developments in Australia’s national system of innovation over about the last decade....

 
Citadels and clusters: towards a regional innovation system in Adelaide (with Peter Burns), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)

This volume is the result of a comparative investigation that contrasts micro-systems of innovation in...

 
Conclusion: intersecting systems of innovation (with Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)
 
Contrasting policies for regional and national innovation systems in China and Australia (with Liu Xielin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)
 

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Strengthening the knowledge economy, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)

What is knowledge ecomony? The knowledge economy could be defined as one where "comparative advantage...

 
Mapping the new cultures and organisation of research in Australia (with Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2000)
 

Presentations

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Collective learning in the development of innovative local organizations and regions, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)

The paper discusses the specific problems of constructing local advantage in the regional innovation setting...

 

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Assessing and building innovation and learning capacity in local organizations, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)

Conceptual models of regional innovation systems have prompted major government initiatives in Europe and North...

 

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There's no 'I' in innovation! Fostering social engagement to accelerate learning organizations and regions (with Andrew J. Sense), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)

Two crucial challenges face local governments: (1) the provision of quality community services, and (2)...

 

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Cities of innovation: Exploring the role of local community organisations in ‘constructing advantage’ (with M. Gross, G. Kerr, S. Kotevski, and S. Zaeemdar), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

Cities and regions around the world are attempting to ‘construct advantage’ by intervening to create...

 

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The Triple Helix and institutional change: Reward, risk and response in Australian Cooperative Research Centres (with T. Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

The paper examines 370 participants’ experience with one well-established organizational embodiment of the ‘triple helix’...

 

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Are R&D collaborators bound to compete? Experience from Cooperative Research Centres in Australia (with T. Turpin and K. Diment), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)

Increasingly, research of potential socio-economic value is being conducted within cross-sector (government, university, business) inter-organizational...

 

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Scientists, career choices and organisational change: managing human resources in cross sector R&D organisations (with Tim Turpin and Kieren Diment), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2004)

The resource based view (RBV) of the firm has drawn attention to the role of...

 

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A missing variable: evaluating the institutional impact from participating in government supported cross sector R & D programs (with Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)

A key feature of government interventions in support of national innovation in recent decades has...

 
Evaluating national health and medical research: Iiternational bench-marks and evaluation issues (with Brian Wixted and Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)

There has been growing pressure on research funding agencies in most countries through the 1990s...

 
Regional innovation: experiences of smaller firms in non-metropolitan Australia (with David K. Aylward, Kavoos Mohannak, and Tim Turpin), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2001)