Innovation: Management, Policy, & Practice

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Technology transfer society 2006 annual conference: the role of knowledge in innovation processes: Atlanta GA, USA 27-29 Septemb
The Technology Transfer Society (T2S) held its annual meeting at Georgia Tech's impressive Hotel & Conference Centre. The theme of the conference was Next Generation Innovation: New Approaches and P . . .

The Economics of the European Patent System: IP Policy for Innovation and Competition.(Book review)
THE ECONOMICS OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT SYSTEM: IP POLICY FOR INNOVATION AND COMPETITION Dominique Guellec and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie (2007) Oxford University Press, Oxford, New Yor . . .

Venture capital financing in the Thai economy.
SUMMARY This paper is concerned with the management of venture capital financing in the Thai economy. It presents Small and Medium Enterprise Development Bank of Thailand (SME Bank) activities in . . .

Is the commercialisation of nanotechnology different? A case study approach.
SUMMARY Nanotechnology is the latest in a series of general purpose technologies (GPT), earlier examples of which, have transformed household life, industry structure and firm performance. This pa . . .

Seeing trees and forests: a comparative evaluation of business clusters and national industry associations in the New Zealand fo
SUMMARY This paper examines the perceptions of a sample of enterprise managers in the New Zealand forest products industry about the respective contributions of cluster groups and national industr . . .

The applicability of the concept of national innovation systems to transition economies.
SUMMARY This article aims at gaining a deeper insight into the structure of National Innovation Systems (NIS) in transition economies, which may allow for developing policy recommendations that he . . .

Formation of the appropriability regime: strategic and practical considerations.
SUMMARY Facilitated by improved networks and communication, knowledge spills over to competitors more easily than before, thus creating an appropriability problem. Consequently, protection of inta . . .

The spatial organization of the news industry: questioning assumptions about knowledge externalities for clustering of creative
SUMMARY The importance ascribed to knowledge externalities for understanding the spatial organization of industries (i.e. clustering) is increasingly being exposed to critical theoretical and empi . . .

XV Portland International Conference for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET): the role of technology management fo
Istanbul, Turkey, 9-13 July 2006 The Engineering Technology Management from Portland State University's Maseeh College of Engineering conducts an annual conference titled Portland International Co . . .

The Talking Biotechnology Conference: reflecting on science in society.(Conference reports)
Wellington, 29 November-2 December, 2005 Late last year, Wellington, New Zealand, was the scenic location of an international conference on the role of biotechnology in society. Organised by the ' . . .

XVII Annual ISPIM Conference: networks for innovation.(Conference reports)(International Society for Professional Innovation Man
Athens, Greece. 11-14 June, 2006 The 2006 ISPIM conference was held in Glyfada, the coastal suburb of Athens in which many of the 2004 Olympic sites were located. ISPIM prides itself on bringing t . . .

XVI Annual ISPIM Conference: the role of knowledge in innovation processes.(Conference reports)(International Society for Profes
Porto, Portugal, 19-22 June 2005 Innovation is much more than just developing new products and processes. One of the crucial enabling elements of innovation is knowledge. Knowledge creation, diffu . . .

Finding the Money: How to Raise Venture Capital.(Book review)
Finding the Money--How to Raise Venture Capital Tom McKaskill (2006) Wilkinson Publishing Melbourne; ISBN: 1 875889 99 X; 208 pages; AUD 39.99 Finding the Money--How to Raise Venture Capital is wr . . .

Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks.(Book review)
Swarm creativity: Competitive advantage through collaborative innovation networks Peter A Gloor (2006) Oxford University Press, Oxford; ISBN 9780195304121; HC; 224 pages; USD 29.95 In this practio . . .

Patents: Economics, Policy and Measurement.(Book review)
Patents. Economics, Policy and Measurement FM Scherer (2005) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK; ISBN 1845424816; HC; 384 pages; GBP 52.96, AUD 153.70 There are arguably fewer scholars to date in the fie . . .

4. The challenge going forward.(Australian business innovations)(Discussion)
The final session involved reporting back from the lunch table discussions, and pulling together the threads from the day, as well as the thinking from the previous forums. Over lunch participants . . .

3. Developing a national agenda--'Victoria's National Innovation Agenda'.
The Hon John Brumby MP, Victorian Minister for Innovation Introduction Firstly I would like to thank the organisers and the sponsors for putting on this very timely series of summits around Aust . . .

2. The leadership challenge.(on the firma business priority)(Discussion)
2.1 Are our firms up to the challenge? Panel discussion The objective of this panel discussion was to home in on the leadership challenges and priorities for business. Are Australian firms too . . .

1. Setting the scene.(of Australia)
Terry Cutler Occasionally over the last few days, struggling with logistics, Mark Dodgson and I have wondered why on earth we decided to convene this meeting. The simple reason is because we feel . . .

Innovation Leadership Forum meeting the challenges--developing an innovation action agenda: summary of proceedings from the Melb
Preface Innovation is a major source of competitiveness for firms and nations around the world. The challenge is not just to be innovative, but to lead innovation. To develop strategic advantage f . . .

The Klofsten Business Platform as a self-diagnostic tool for new technology-based small firms.
SUMMARY This paper first reviews available instruments that might be used by new technology-based small firms (NTSFs) as self-diagnostic tools to assess their positioning and plan their future dev . . .

Critical issues in the commercialization of nanotechnologies.
SUMMARY It is now recognized that nanotechnology is a set of tools for manipulating matter at the nanometre level that can be applied to any manufactured product. There is no discrete nanotechnolo . . .

The strategic value of oscillating tie strength in technology clusters.
SUMMARY This paper focuses on the innovation networks of high-technology Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) within a Science and Technology Park (STP). More specifically, the study examines . . .

Evolving capabilities and innovative intentionality: some reflections on the role of intention within innovation processes.
SUMMARY We may argue that individual and organisational dynamic capabilities evolve through the interaction of intentions and action goals. Capabilities are renewed and reshaped by the appearance . . .

Patents, Economics, Policy and Measurement.(Book review)
PATENTS. ECONOMICS, POLICY AND MEASUREMENT F. M. Scherer (2005) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK; ISBN 1845424816; HC; 384 pages; GBP 52.96, AUD 153.70 There are arguably fewer scholars to date in the . . .

The impact of industry associations: evidence from Statistics Canada data.
SUMMARY Industry associations are nonprofit organizations with specialized knowledge and capabilities that typically perform innovation enabler roles. I present Statistics Canada data that show th . . .

US innovation policy: creating (and expanding) a national agenda for global competitiveness.
SUMMARY While many critics of the state of US global competitiveness believed they were faint voices in the economic policy wilderness, their concerns were being heeded by a leading national econo . . .

Strategic management of industrial clusters in Thailand.
SUMMARY Currently, the Thai government has implemented cluster development strategies to improve the national economic performance and technological capabilities. The strategic management of the r . . .

Transnational policy learning in Europe: attempts to transfer innovation policy practices.
SUMMARY Contemporary interest in trans-national policy learning is prompted by a perceived growth in policy transfers and attention is focused on measures employed by other countries which may be . . .

Why innovation policies should include a multiple system perspective: the case of biotechnology in EC Member States' innovation
SUMMARY Traditionally, public policies in the field of innovation have been based on neo-classical assumptions about market failures concerning for example appropriability conditions and informati . . .

Success in healthcare technology businesses: coordinating the value milestones of new product introduction, financial stakeholde
SUMMARY To get medical products to market, pharmaceutical, biological product and medical device businesses must successfully progress along a multidimensional path that leads from discovery or de . . .

A longitudinal comparative study of university research commercialisation performance: Australia, UK and USA.
SUMMARY Research commercialisation surveys are now available for Australia for Financial Years (FY) 2000 and 2002. This paper reviews longitudinal comparative data for research commercialisation p . . .

Three dimensional ethics: implementing workplace values.(Endorsement)(Brief article)
The way a society behaves is a reflection of the ethics honoured within it. We will have the society that reflects the values demonstrated by leaders and role models in our society. Thus, if our p . . .

Foreword.
In the spirit of transparency, honesty and integrity which Three Dimensional Ethics does so much to promote, let me begin by owning up. The sad fact is that--like many of those who will consider rea . . .

Understanding ethical perspectives: the mindfield of personal ethics.
Ethics establishes who you are and what you stand for. Individuals have an innate need to make sense of the situations in which they find themselves, yet organisational managers often overlook thi . . .

Who decides what is ethical? Society, organisations or individuals?
Ethics is about character and courage. How we meet the challenge when doing the right thing will cost more than we want to pay. Robert D. Hass CEO Levi Strauss & Co. Ethics, morals and the law . . .

Context, challenge and choice.(business ethics)
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise Machiavelli The Prince (1513) Much of what the West took for granted in our free market system and assumed to be human nature was not . . .

Governance: corporate social responsibilty and employee accountability.(CHAPTER 3)
Every human act takes place in language. Every act in language brings forth a world created with others in the act of coexistence which gives rise to what is human. Thus every human act has an ethic . . .

Changing societal values: the rise of stakeholder capitalism.(CHAPTER 2)(corporate social responsibility)
All truth passes through three stages First it is ridiculed Second it is opposed Third it is accepted as being self-evident Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Social change The history of opposit . . .

Further reading.
Argyris, C. (1990) Overcoming Organizational Defences, Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall. Badaracco, J. (1992) 'Business Ethics: Four Shapers of Executive Responsibility'--California Management R . . .

Useful websites.(Website list)
Corporate Social Responsibility Networks AccountAblity www.accountability.org.au Best Practices Database www.bestpractices.org Business for Social Responsibility www.bsr.org/ Caux Roundtable . . .

Universal declaration of human rights.(APPENDIX 3)(United Nations)
Preamble Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Wher . . .

Top 120 Australian and New Zealand companies--corporate social responsibility index.(APPENDIX 2)
www.reputex.com.au (RepuTex[R], Melbourne VIC, 2005) The biggest 100 Australian companies and 20 New Zealand companies from Business Review Weekly's top 1000 companies have been ranked below in or . . .

The global 100 list of the most sustainable corporations in the world.(APPENDIX 1)
www.global100.org (Corporate Knights Inc. Toronto ON, 2005) The following list of The Most Sustainable Corporations in the World (Global 100 List for 2005 www.global100.org) is reproduced with per . . .

Epilogue.(Outline of History)(Book review)
>Human history more and more becomes a race between education and catastrophe H.G. Wells (1866-1946) Outline of History, 1920 In this book, we have suggested that there are three distinct dimens . . .

Ethics and doing business in China.(CHAPTER 8)
The superior man understands righteousness; the inferior man understands profit. Confucius (551--479 BC) When things are investigated, knowledge is extended. When knowledge is extended, thoughts . . .

Virtue ethics and the rise of the meaning economy: virtue ethics in tomorrow's business world.(CHAPTER 7)
Leadership, the learned ability to inspire 'followship', has qualities that reflect more the character of the individual than the particular type of organisation that they head; or the form of autho . . .

Becoming comfortable with the ethical dimension.(CHAPTER 6)
We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. George W. Merck (Merck & Co . . .

Introduction.(business ethics in today's age)
The unexamined life is not worth living Baruch Spinoza (1634-1677) Ethics is no longer a purely personal concern. Nor is it something that organisational leaders can take for granted. The waves . . .

The evolving role of research consortia in East Asia.
SUMMARY Research consortia have played an important role in the economic success of several East Asian countries. This paper looks at the ways these consortia--which are created for strategic rath . . .