Prometheus

Volume 14, Issue 2
01 December 1996
Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation
Pluto Journals

Table of contents

ANNOUNCEMENT151
THE ROLE OF ECONOMIES OF SCALE IN AUSTRALIAN R&D152
IMPACTS OF THE DOMESTIC MICROWAVE OVEN168
THE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH GRANTS COMMITTEE: AN ACCOUNT OF THE WAY THINGS WERE179
THE NEW, RUTHLESS ECONOMY195
TRANSLATING THE MFP: NATIONAL INNOVATION MANAGEMENT POLICY, HIGH TECHNOLOGY INCUBATORS AND AUSTRALIA-JAPAN RELATIONS207
A MICROBIOLOGIST IN INDUSTRY: THE CAREER OF AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN SCIENTIST233
NUMBER PORTABILITY, REGULATION AND THE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD: AN EMERGENT POLICY HETERODOXY?248
Australia and the Knowledge Economy by P.J. Sheehan, Nick Pappas, Galina Tikhomirova and Paul Sinclair (Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, December 1995), pp. 230, ISBN 1–87533–8499264
Challenge to Change: Australia in 2020 edited by Richard Eckersley and Kevin Jeans (CSIRO Information Services, East Melbourne, Australia, 1994), pp. 280, A$34.95, ISBN 0–643–05675267
The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century by Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994), pp. x + 304, A$29.95, ISBN 0–521–42492–5269
Building Competences in the Firm: Lessons from Japanese and European Optoelectronics by Kumiko Miyazaki (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995), pp. xvi+321, £ 40, ISBN 0 31212314 0272
Emerging Patterns of Innovation: Sources of Japan's Technology Edge by Fumio Kodama (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1995), pp. xxvii + 297, ISBN 0–87584–437–5273
Innovation in East Asia: The Challenge to Japan by Michael Hobday (Edward Edgar, Cheltenham 1995), pp. 290, £45, ISBN I 858980178276
Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920–1940 by Geoffrey C. Bowker (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994), pp.viii+191. ISBN 0–262–02367–9277
Rethinking Technologies edited by VerenaAnermatt Conley (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993), pp xv+248, ISBN 0–8166–2215–9279
Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America by Howard P. Segal, (The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1994), pp. xv + 245, US$15.95 (paperback), ISBN 0–87023–882–5; US$40 (cloth), ISBN 0–87023–881–7282
The Long Wave in the World Economy: The Current Crisis in Historical Perspective by Andrew Tylecote (Routledge, London, 1993) pp. xiv + 340, $44.95, ISBN 0–415–03691–7285
Techno logy and Innovation in the International Economy edited by Charles Cooper (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 1994), pp. xi+239, £ 39.95, ISBN 1–85898–0275288
Institutional Economics and the Theory of Value: Essays in Honor of Marc R. Tool edited by Charles M.A. Clark (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,1995), pp xi + 281, US$87.50, ISBN 0–7923–9606–5291
Australian Environmental History: Essays and Cases edited by Stephen Dovers (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994), pp. vi + 281, A$26.95, ISBN 0–10–553482–4294
Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics and Public Policy edited by John Lemons and DonaLd A. Brown (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995), pp. xvii+28I, US$149, ISBN 0–7923–3500–7296
For whom the phone rings. Residential Consumers and Telecommunications Competition by Consumers' Telecommunications Network (CTN, Surry Hills, NSW, 1995), pp. 310, A$30.00, ISBN 0–646–23617–2297
Organisational Change Strategies: Case Studies of Human Resource and Industrial Relations Issues, edited by Margaret Patrickson, Val Bamberand Greg J. Bamber, (Longman Australia Pty Ltd 1995), pp. xii + 322, A$29.95, ISBN 0 582 876516301
Publishing in the Information Age: A New Management Framework Cor the Digital Era by Douglas M. Eisenhart (Quorum Books, Westport, CT, USA), pp. xiv + 296, US$55.00, ISBN 0–89930–847–3303
Mayer on the Media: Issues andArguments by Henry Mayer and edited by Rodney Tiffen, (Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1994), pp. xxi + 201, A$22.95, ISBN 1 86373 625 5306
Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), National Research Council (NSF) (National Academy Press, Washington, 1994), pp. vii + 285, US$24.95, ISBN 0–309–05044–8308
Ownership of Intellectual Property in Universities by the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AYCC, Canberra, 1995) pp. vi + 75, ISBN 0–7266–0328–7
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Telstra: To Sell or not to Sell? by Senate Environment, Recreation, Communications and the Arts References Committee (Senate Printing Unit, Parliament House, Canberra, 1996) pp. xi + 181 + appendices, ISBN 0–642–25641–1
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World Telecommunication Development Report 1995: Information Infrastructures by the Intemational Telecommunication Union (ITU, Geneva, 1995) pp. x + 142 + appendices, ISBN 92–61–05662–8
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National Information Services Council: Agenda papers from the first meeting of the Council 10 August 1995 by the National Information Services Council (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1995) pp. viii + 110, ISBN 0–644–45514–4
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Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications by Robert H Anderson, Tora K Bikson, Sally Ann Law and Bridger M. Mitchell (RAND, Santa Monica, CA, 1995) pp. xxviii + 267, US $15.00, ISBN 0–8330–2331–4
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Information Technology and National Trade Facilitation: Making the Most of Global Trade by Robert Schware and Paul Kimberley (The World Bank, Washington, DC, 1995) pp. xv + 42, US $7.95, ISBN 0–8213–3533–2
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Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector: Lessons from Experience edited by Bjorn Wellenius and Peter A. Stem (The World Bank, Washington, 1994), pp. xii + 757, US $59.95, ISBN 0–8213–2606–6
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NEWS
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