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Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

Prometheus

Volume 15, Issue 1

Issue date: 01 April 1997

Journal: Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Table of contents

Information Technology: A Critical Perspective on its Economic Effects BRIGITTE PREISSL	5
Multidisciplinary Policy Research—An Australian Experience GABRIELE BAMMER	27
Nurturing National Talent: The Australian Research Council's Fellowship Scheme JANE MARCEAU, HUGH PRESTON	41
Symposium on Evolving Communications and Socio-economic Change (STEP 1996) DAVID ANTHONY, THOMAS MANDEVILLE, JOHN FOSTER	55
Economics and the Diffusion of Communication and Information Technologies: Joseph Schumpeter and the Self-organisation Approach JOHN FOSTER	57
The Knowledge-based Economy: A Sisyphus Model DON LAMBERTON	73
Modelling the Coevolution of Communications and Socio-economic Structure PETER M. ALLEN	83
Communicative Strategies and the Evolution of Organisations Facing the New Turbulence: ICTs as Problems and Opportunities GREG HEARN, ABRAHAM NINAN	101
Signs of Convergence? Images of the University in the Management of R&D KEITH RANDLE	111
Pioneering Strategies and Small Firms, an Australia–UK Comparison JULIAN LOWE	125
The Making of the Australian National University 1946–1996, S. G. Foster & Margaret M. Varghese Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1996, xi+ 464 pp., A$59.95, ISBN 1-86448-0831 Ann Moyal	137
Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United States, Jorge Reina Schement & Terry Curtis New Brunswick, USA, Transaction Publishers, 1995, viii + 285 pp., ISBN 1-56000-166-6 D. McL. Lamberton	139
The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought, Robert Heilbroner & William Milberg Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ix + 131 pp., A$23.95 (Pbk), ISBN 0-521-49774-4 John Laurent	141
Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, Merritt Roe Smith & Leo Marx (Eds), Cambridge, MA, London, MIT Press, 1995, xv + 288 pp., ISBN 0-262-69167-1 John Howells	144
Information System Concepts: Towards a Consolidation of Views, Eckhard D. Falkenburg, Wolfgang Hesse & Antoni Olivé (Eds), London, Chapman Hall, 1995, viii + 315 pp., £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 0-412-63950-5 Stephen E. Little	149
The Tyranny of the Market: A Critique of Theoretical Foundations, Douglas Vickers, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1995, ix + 261 pp., £39.60, ISBN 0-472-10618-X D. McL. Lamberton	151
Science Policy and Research Management in the Balkan Countries, George Parissakis & Nikos Katsaros (Eds), Dordrecht, Boston, London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affiirs Division, 1995, xiii + 236 pp., US$157.00, ISBN 0-7923-3599-6 Dora Marinova	153
Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies, Loet Leydesdorff & Peter Van den Besselaar (Eds), London, Pinter Publishers, 1994, xi + 215 pp., £35.00 (hbk), £14.99 (Pbk), ISBN 1-855671980 (hbk), 1-85567-2022 (pbk) John Howells	155
Netiquette, Virginia Shea, San Francisco, Albion Books, 1994, 154 pp., $US19.95, ISBN 0-9637025-1-3 David Rooney	158
On the Cards: Privacy, Identity and Trust in the Age of Smart Technologies, Perri 6 & Ivan Briscoe, London, Demos, 1996, 128 pp., £9.95, ISBN 1-898309-72-8 Richard Joseph	159
Evaluation of Commonwealth Support for MFP Australia, Bureau of Industry Economics, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996, xv + 150 pp., ISBN 0-644-36222-7 Thomas Mandeville	161
NEWS	163