RIS ID
15232
Abstract
This chapter reviews developments in Australia’s national system of innovation over about the last decade. It focuses in particular on the objectives and effectiveness of the policies adopted by the current federal government since its election in 1996, and the prospects and challenges that Australia now faces in science and innovation.
Publication Details
This chapter will be published as: Garrett-Jones, S, ‘Marking time?’ – The evolution of the Australian national innovation system, 1996-2005, in Tim Turpin and Venni V Krishna, (eds), Science, Technology Policy and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Understanding the Dynamics of Innovation Systems in the Asia-Pacific, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007, Chap. 2.