Innovation Science and Technology
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Year: 2010
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Author: Wallace, Anne
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Journal Name: Journal of Law, Information and Science
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Journal Number: 19
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Western Australia
Courts and tribunals in Australia are making substantial investments in court technology, in particular, videoconferencing and broadband technology, as a way of delivering justice to remote and regional Australia. While the deployment of technology in this way is most often justified on the grounds of cost-savings and convenience, ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
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Journal Name: State New Economy Index
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Publisher: ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
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Published Location: Washington, United States
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Country: United States
This report builds on four earlier State New Economy Indexes published in 1999, 2002, 2007, and 2008. The purpose of the State New Economy Index is to measure the economic structure of states. Unlike some reports, which assess state economic performance or state economic policies, this report focuses more narrowly on a&nb ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: Explor Consulting Pty Ltd
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Publisher: RDA Moreton Bay Inc, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Queensland Government
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Queensland
The Moreton Bay Region in South East Queensland (SEQ) comprises diverse communities, landscapes and businesses. Since 2008, the Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) has been the single local government authority for the region and is the third largest local government by population in Australia. Regional Development Australia Moreton Bay Incorpora ....
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Year: 2012
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Author: Australia-China Joint Working Group
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Publisher: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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Country: Australia
Dr Emerson, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Asian Century, launched Feeding the Future – A Joint Australia-China Report on Strengthening Investment and Technological Cooperation in Agriculture to Enhance Food Security on 20 December 2012. The report marks a new era in agricultural cooperat ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: Lois Burgess, Belinda Parrish, Joan Cooper and Carole Alcock
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Country: Australia
The information-intensive nature of the tourism and travel industry suggests an important role for Web technology in the promotion and marketing of tourist destinations. The rapid development of the Internet is also having profound impacts on the industry. In fact, travel and tourism has become the single largest category of products sold over th ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: Savoie, Robert (Bobby) A.
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Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
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Publisher: University of New Orleans
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Published Location: United States -- Louisiana
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ISBN: 9781109200010
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Country: United States
Technology-based economic development has been a highly sought-after objective for regions in developed and developing countries alike. The wealth created by regional knowledge-based economies like Silicon Valley is an attractive outcome. Without understanding cluster-based economic strategy, the different types of technology-based econ ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: Allison, Janelle; Eversole, Robyn
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Journal Name: Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
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Journal Number: Vol. 21, No. 2
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Country: Australia
Ideas about the importance of knowledge and innovation in the global economy have implications for the changing role of universities but so too do ideas about the role ofplace-based knowledge in generating competitive advantage and innovation at the regionalscale. As the concern to structure effective innovation systems intersects with thegrowing ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Luh, Jer-Junn; Cheng, Po-Hsing; Chen, Heng-Shung; Lai, Jin-Shin
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Journal Name: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems
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ISBN: 9781586037741
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Country: Taiwan
Taiwan launched a telemedicine service for rural area since 1995. In this study, a qualitative evaluations of Taiwan's telemedicine was performed to assess various measures of effectiveness (e.g., diagnostic accuracy), efficiency (e.g., cost), and participant's altitudes to determine its success. Qualitative data were collected fro ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: Wakerman, John; Humphreys, John; Wells, Robert; Kuipers, Pim; Entwistle, Philip; Jones, Judith
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Publisher: Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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Country: Australia
Since the mid 1990s in Australia, there has been a generally favourable policy environment with respect to rural health. However, there has been little policy attention to the systematic development of sustainable comprehensive primary health care (PHC) service models in rural and remote Australia. This study commenced with the ass ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: West, Jonathan
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Publisher: Australian Innovation Research Centre
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Published Location: Hobart, Tas
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Tasmania
The Tasmanian Government commissioned the AIRC to undertake research which would inform the Tasmanian Innovation Strategy. The Strategy aimed to identify current growth areas in Tasmania suitable for further innovation and development, and suggest possible strategies to enable those sectors to fulfil their economic potential.
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Year: 2006
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Author: Beer, Andrew; Clower, Terry; Kearins, Bridget
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Journal Name: Farm Policy Journal
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Journal Number: Vol.3, No.3
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Publisher: Australian Farm Institute
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Country: Australia
This paper considers the economic processes shaping the future of settlement in Australia and argues that complex forces are at work, and that towns and regions that can identify and develop new industries have considerable potential for growth. The paper begins by discussing the evidence relating to urban growth also amongst Australia's regional ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: Dr Ric Simes, Nicki Hutley, Susan Havyatt, Rebecca McKibbin
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Publisher: Access Economics
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Country: Australia
To maximise economic potential, we therefore need to be able to take maximum advantage of the possibilities generated by the NBN. So it is crucial that we understand the state of preparedness of businesses, and what needs to be done. Macquarie Telecom has therefore undertaken a survey of Australian businesses to advance our understanding of curre ....
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Year: 2015
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Author: Adam Tomlinson
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Journal Name: Farm Institute Insights
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Publisher: Australian Farm Institute
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Country: Australia
Wouldn't it be great if everyone had access to a seamless flow of information via the internet. Whether you worked in a metropolitan area or a remote farming region, the software or data needed to keep your business running efficiently could be downloaded quickly and affordably. Although this scenario already exists in some parts of the world, it ....
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Year: 2011
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Author: McKinsey Global Institute
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Editors: James Manyika, Michael Chui, Brad Brown, Jacques Bughin, Richard Dobbs, Charles Roxburgh, Angela Hung Byers
This report seeks to understand the state of digital data, how different domains can use large datasets to create value, the potential value across stakeholders, and the implications for the leaders of private sector companies and public sector organizations, as well as for policy makers. We have supplemented our analysis of big data as a whole w ....
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Year: 2004
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Author: Wondu Business & Technology Services
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Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
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Published Location: Barton, ACT
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ISBN: 174151035X
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Country: Australia, United States
The growing use of the Internet is providing rural, regional and remote areas with new opportunities to communicate, purchase goods and services and make use of applications that can reduce transaction costs, generate revenue and/or provide access to new forms of entertainment. The development of more data-intensive applications is stimulating de ....
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