Booming Bohemia? Evidence from the US High-Technology Industry (journal article)
By David S. Bieri
from Industry & Innovation Vol 17 Iss 1 Feb 2010, pp. 23 - 48
"This paper assesses the effect of Richard Florida's creative class on economic growth and development at two levels of spatial aggregation. First, I examine the dynamics of economic growth across US metropolitan regions and investigate how they relate to regional specialization and the concentration of talent in the high-tech industry. In addition to evidence of significant high-tech clusters, I identify important complementarities with regard to the interaction between the three Ts of regional development (talent, technology and tolerance) and regional growth dynamics. Using firm-level data, the regional analysis is then complemented by exploring the location of new high-technology plant openings and their relationship with university research and development (R&D) and the creative class. Specifically, I test the hypothesis that both university R&D and the presence of “creativity” generate spillovers which are captured locally in the form of new high-tech establishments, after controlling for important location factors such as local cost, demand and agglomeration economies. While the marginal impacts of increased R&D funding on county probability for new firm formation is modest, the mix of creativity and diversity—as proxied by the Florida measure—appears to be a key driver in the locational choice of new high-tech firms. Separate estimates indicate that these findings hold up across the major high-tech industries in the USA."

Boulevard of broken dreams : why public efforts to boost entrepreneurship and venture capital have failed--and what to do about it [book]
Author: Josh Lerner
"When has governmental sponsorship succeeded in boosting growth, and when has it fallen terribly short? Should the government be involved in such undertakings at all? Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the first extensive look at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents. Josh Lerner, one of the foremost experts in the field, provides valuable insights into why some public initiatives work while others are hobbled by pitfalls, and he offers suggestions for how public ventures should be implemented in the future." - cover.
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Call number: 338.04 BOU 2009

A Taxing debate : climate policy beyond Copenhagen [book]

Author: Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA)

Essays include: Reforms in the greenhouse era : who pays, and how? / Michael Porter -- Consumption-based emissions policy : a vaccine for the CPRS 'trade flu’? / Geoff Carmody -- R&D Policy / CRA International -- Forging a global agreement on climate change : realities, politics and practicalities / ITS Global.

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Breakthrough Ideas for 2010 (journal article)
By Teresa M. Amabile
from Harvard Business Review Vol. 88 Issue 1 Jan 2010, pp. 41-57
"The article presents The HBR List of breakthrough ideas for 2010 which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. The article titles are "What Really Motivates Workers," "The Technology That Can Revolutionize Health Care," "What the Financial Sector Should Borrow," "Getting the Drugs We Need," "A Market Solution for Achieving 'Green'," "A Faster Path from Lab to Market," "Hacking Work," "Spotting Bubbles on the Rise," "Creating More Hong Kongs," and "Independent Diplomacy.""

R&D tax incentives: a reappraisal (journal article)
By Eren Inci
from International Tax and Public Finance Vol 16 Iss 6 Dec 2009, pp. 797-821
"This paper examines R&D tax incentives in oligopolistic markets. We characterize the conditions under which tax incentives reach the socially desirable level of firm-financed R&D spending. The outcome of the market depends not only on the level of technological spillover in the industry but also on the degree of strategic interaction between the firms. One major result emerges from the model: The socially desirable level of R&D investment is not necessarily reached by subsidizing R&D. When the technological spillover is sufficiently low, the government might want to tax R&D investments, and this result does not necessarily arise because firms are overinvesting in R&D. There are also cases in which an R&D tax is desirable even though firms are underinvesting in R&D compared with the first-best optimum. In practice, this theoretical finding calls for a lower sales tax combined with an R&D subsidy in oligopolistic industries with high technological spillovers, and a lower sales tax combined with an R&D tax in oligopolistic industries with low technological spillovers. "
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To Be a Better Leader, Give Up Authority (journal article)
By A.D. Amar, Carsten Hentrich, and Vlatka Hlupic
from Harvard Business Review Vol. 87 Issue 12 Dec 2009, p22-24
"The article discusses a study on management and leadership that was conducted by the authors. They argue that innovation and efficiency can increase when executives relinquish some of their authority and give employees some autonomy in their jobs. Examples are given which focus on the financial performance of IT consulting services company's CSC Germany division and on the no-control management style of the telecom-component company ANADIGICS. The authors indicate that more levels of employees should be involved in the decision making at knowledge companies and at those which rely on innovation."

Throwing sheep in the boardroom : how online social networking will transform your life, work, and world [book]

Authors: Matthew Fraser & Soumitra Dutta.

"Examine the powerful forces behind the social 'e'-revolution, detailing often absurd and powerful reactions to it as well making predictions about its long-term consequences. ... Argues that while the Web 2.0 revolution has reached a tipping point socially ... it is facing powerful forces of resistance inside organizations - especially corporations and government bureaucracies." - cover.

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Managing occupational boundaries to improve innovation outcomes in industry-research organisations (journal article)
By Kathryn J Hayes and J Anneke Fitzgerald
from Journal of Management & Organisation Vol 15 No 4 Sept 2009, pp. 423-437
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Commercialisation activities combining the discoveries of one occupational group, such as scientists, with the commercial skills of managers involve interactions across occupational and organisational cultures.
This article explores the challenges posed by working across occupational and organisational boundaries, and describes management techniques developed informally in four Australian organisations to address barriers to knowledge transfer. It identifies the existence of Knowledge-stewarding Communities of Practice (CoP) that span organisational boundaries and impact commercialisation outcomes. It also presents recommendations for management practice based upon diversity management and innovation theories.
The context of the study is Australian hybrid industry-research organisations composed of academic, government and industry personnel. Semi-structured interviews with a total of twenty scientists, engineers and managers focused on their experiences of knowledge sharing across organisational and occupational cultures, and methods used to manage these boundaries. The existence and efficacy of boundary-crossing individuals and boundary object strategies are explored. A generic process management model of innovation is extended to acknowledge and accommodate occupational and organisational cultural proclivities towards exploration or exploitation, and to stimulate future research."
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Capitalising research and development: towards the new system of National AccountsUpdates previous work to include improvements to measuring R&D deflation, depreciation, rate of return and stocks (journal article)
by Peter Evans, M. Khalid Nadeem Khan, Lars Wenzell
from Economic & Labour Market Review, vol 3, no 9, pp 16-23
"This article extends the earlier work on capitalisation of R&D in response to the proposals in the new System of National Accounts (SNA). Major improvements include: R&D deflators, depreciation rate for non-market R&D, rate of return, and estimates of R&D capital stocks. In addition, the article highlights areas for future improvements and presents preliminary estimates for the impact of capitalisation on the UK National Accounts. R&D capitalisation raises the level of UK GDP by approximately 1.6 per cent and gross capital formation by about 9 per cent. These changes are due to capitalisation of R&D rather than an actual improvement to GDP growth, which is estimated to be minimal. These fi gures are preliminary, based on experimental methods, and should therefore be interpreted with caution. The authors welcome comments and complementary evidence that can be used to substantiate or revise the assumptions made throughout this article. "

Australian cultural and innovation policies: Never the twain shall meet? (journal article)
By Ben Eltham
from Innovation: Management Policy and Practice Vol 11 Iss 2 Aug 2009, pp. 230-239
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In recent years, Australian cultural policy-makers have begun to pay more attention to innovation policy. Several of the Australian states specifically address issues of innovation in their formal cultural policies, and the Australia Council for the Arts has published an Innovation Strategy which purports to constitute 'a coordinated approach to supporting creativity as one of Australia's most valuable assets' (Australia Council 2006).
However, despite this prima facie policy commitment to supporting and fostering innovation in the arts and cultural industries, there remains a disconnect between cultural and innovation policies in Australia. On the one hand, cultural policies in Australia are confused and incoherent in their approach to cultural innovation, and many policy settings as they apply to cultural industries are antithetical to the aims of fostering innovation and R&D. Meanwhile, innovation policies continue to pay only marginal attention to the creative arts and cultural industries. This disconnect will be briefly examined in three fields of cultural policy: arts and cultural funding; copyright and intellectual property policy; and broadcast media policy.
It is argued that rather than promoting innovation, existing policy frameworks in all three areas, when not specifically framed around the protection of vested interests, are often contradictory and inimical to the disruptive influence of innovative artists, technologies and firms. Possible reasons for the disconnect include pragmatic matters of busy ministers and low policy priorities, and conceptual confusion over the status and value of culture."
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State of the Arts and Innovation: Before and After the Review of the National Innovation System (journal article)
By Luke Jaaniste
from Australian Journal of Public Administration Vol 38 No 3 2009, pp. 272 - 287
"This article examines the relationship between the arts and national innovation policy in Australia, pivoting around the Venturous Australia report released in September 2008 as part of the Review of the National Innovation System (RNIS). This came at a time of optimism that the arts sector would be included in Australia's federal innovation policy. However, despite the report's broad vision for innovation and specific commentary on the arts, the more ambitious hopes of arts sector advocates remained unfulfilled. This article examines the entwining discourses of creativity and innovation which emerged globally and in Australia prior to the RNIS, before analysing Venturous Australia in terms of the arts and the ongoing science-and-technology bias to innovation policy. It ends by considering why sector-led policy research and lobbying has to date proved unsuccessful and then suggests what public policy development is now needed."

The role of creative industries in industrial innovation (journal article)
by Kathrin Muller, Christian Rammer and Johannes Truby
from: Innovation: management, policy and practice, Vol 11 No 2 2009 pp.148-168
"This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. Conducting a survey of more than 2,000 creative industry enterprises, we show that creative industries are among the most innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas for new products, supplementary products and services or marketing support for product innovations. They are also an important user of new technology and demand innovations from technology producers, particularly information and communication technologies. Own innovative activities are a key driver for supporting innovation.
Creative industries are no homogenous sector, however. While software and advertising show the strongest links to industrial innovation, architecture and content providers contribute rather little."
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Starting an online business for dummies [book]

Authors: Melissa Norfolk & Greg Holden

Chapters include: Opening your own online business in ten easy steps, Planning your new e-business, Selecting the right web host and design tools, Organising your business site structure and layout, Creating a secure shopping experience, Accepting payments, Running a business through online auctions, Advertising and publicity, Search engine optimisation, Taking advantage of Google’s tools, Online business accounting tools, Ten must-have features for your web site, and Ten must-see online business success stories.

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Life sciences: China and India offer huge market opportunities (article)
by Lisa Haile
From San Diego News Network 18 June 2009
"Despite the current world economic crisis, Asia, India and the Pacific Rim regions show strong potential for growth in the life sciences sector.
These markets — in particular China and India — are expected to become some of the world’s largest markets in the coming years. "

OECD regions at a glance, 2009 [online]

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

"Measuring such factors as education levels, employment opportunities and intensity of knowledge-based activities, this publication offers a statistical snapshot of how life is lived - and can be improved - from region to region in the OECD area." - abstract.

Commercialisation push is disastrous (journal article)
by Doug Edmeades
from Australasian Science , May 2009
"Business management and the profit motive have put science in a strait-jacket, New Zealand experience shows."

An innovation economics agenda for the Obama administration (journal article)
By Robert D. Atkinson
from The Journal of Technology Transfer Vol 34 No 4 Aug 2009, pp. 440 - 447
"Seven recommendations are offered for the Obama Administration to ensure that the economy is on a robust growth path over the next decade. These recommendations are intended as first steps towards building the innovation-based public-private partnerships needed to drive economic growth and prosperity."

The Venturesome economy : how innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world [book]

Author: Amar Bhide

Argues that offshoring research and development to China and India will not threaten Western prosperity. Similarly, subsidizing these activities in an attempt to maintain a lead in the field is counter-productive. The most important factor for economic growth is the willingness and ability of businesses and consumers to use new products and technologies.

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The entrepreneurial society
By David B. Audretsch
from Journal of Technology Transfer Vol 34 No 3 Jun 2009,pp. 245 - 254
"This paper explains why and how entrepreneurship has emerged as an engine of economic growth, employment creation and competitiveness in global markets. The entrepreneurial society reflects the emergence as entrepreneurship as an important source of economic growth. "

Balanced national development policy in Korea : theory and practice [book]

Author: Korea. Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development

Outlines how South Korea's change in economic policy has resulted in a knowledge-based economy where innovation and economic growth occurs in regional areas, and not just in metropolitan areas.