Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

Prometheus

Volume 9, Issue 2

Issue date: 01 December 1991

Journal: Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

AGROBIOTECHNOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA: ISSUES OF CONTROL, COLLABORATION AND SUSTAINABILITY Richard A. Hindmarsh, David F. Burch, Kees Hulsman	221
TRADITIONAL AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY POLICY: WHAT WENT WRONG Jenny Stewart	249
CAPTURING REGIONAL BENEFITS FROM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: THE QUESTION OF REGIONAL APPROPRIABILITY Fred Jevons, Marc Saupin	265
PRINCIPAL-AGENT PROBLEMS AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY Peter E. Earl	274
ROAD TRANSPORT INFORMATICS: CHALLENGING THE FREEDOM OF THE ROADS? Pam Scott	296
YOUNG WORKERS IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY FIRMS: OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES Sue Whyte, Belinda Probert	313
UNINVITED GUESTS: A THERMODYNAMIC APPROACH TO RESOURCE ALLOCATION Joseph H. Vogel	332
STATE AND COMMONWEALTH CO-OPERATION IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY Neal Ryan	346
WHY AUSTRALIA FAILS TO EXPLOIT PUBLICLY FUNDED R&D Paul V. Martin	362
Chickengate: An Independent Analysis of the Salmonella in Eggs Scare by Richard North and Teresa Gorman (IEA Health and Welfare Unit, London, 1990), £ 4.95, pp. x + 117, ISBN 0-255-36260-9 D. P. Doessel	379
Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past edited by Stephen Nicholas (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988), pp. x + 246, $47.50, ISBN 0-521-36126-5 Robin Gollan	381
Guns for tbe Tsar: American Tecbnology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Joseph Bradley* (Northern Illinois University Press, De Kalb, Illinois, 1990), pp. xi + 274, $US27.50, ISBN 0-87580-154-4 John Laurent	383
Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age by Catherine Caufield (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990), pp. vi + 304, $USI5.95, ISBN 0-226-09785-4 (pbk) W. Alan Runciman	385
Australia as an Information Society: Grasping New Paradigms Report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee for Long Term Strategies (Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS), Canberra, May 1991), pp. xv + 82, $9.95, ISBN 0-644-14371-1 Mary Sandow-Quirk	388
Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry and Government by Robert E. Babe (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1990), pp. xv + 363, $CAN24.95, ISBN 0-8020-6738-7 (Pbk) Robin Mansell	391
Making Science Our Own: Public Images of Science 1910-1955 by Marcel C. LaFollette (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1990), pp. ix + 260, $US17.95, ISBN 0-226-46779-1 (Pbk) Rosaleen Love	394
The Population Explosion by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich (Simon and Schuster, NewYork, 1990), pp. 320, $US18.95, ISBN 0-671-68984-3 Joseph H. Vogel	396
Safe Blood: Purifying the Nation's Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS by Joseph Feldschuh with Doron Weber (Free Press, New York, 1990), pp. xiv + 218, $US19.95, ISBN 0-02-910065-8 Robert Beal	397
Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Müller, Babbage and Scheutz by Michael Lindgren (translated by Craig G. McKay) (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990), pp. 414, $US45.00, ISBN 0-262-12146-8 Tony Bryant	400
The Globalisation of High Technology Production: Society, Space and Semiconductors in the Restructuring of the Modern World by Jeffrey Henderson (Routledge, London and New York, 1989), pp. xxiii + 198, $32.95, ISBN 0-415-06076-1 (pbk) John V. Langdale	402
Mapping and Measuring the Information Economy by Ian Miles and contributors Tim Brady, Andy Davies, Leslie Haddon, Nick Jagger, Mark Matthews, Howard Rush and Sally Wyatt (Library and Information Research Report 77, British Library Board, 1990), pp. ix + 275, £ 25.00, ISBN 0-7123-3212-x D. McL. Lamberton	404
Making Public Administrators More Efficient with Integrated Systems: A Reference Guide from the ASTRA ESPRIT Project 831 by P. Hardy, E. Pesce and A. Weisner (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1991), pp. viii + 293, $132.00, ISBN 0-444-89021-1 Mairéad Brown	406
Continuum: An Australian Journal of the Media, The Media of Publishing, Volume 4, Number 1, 1990 edited by Albert Moran (Communication Studies, Murdoch University), pp. 228, subscription $25.00, ISSN 1030-4312 John Curtain	408
Hunger and Public Action by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1989), pp. xviii + 373, SUS45.00, ISBN 0-19-828634-1 Peter Anderson	412
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990), pp. ix +349, $39.95, ISBN 019 5061136 Hiram Caton	413
Britain's Competitiveness: The Management of the Vehicle Component Industry by Christopher Carr (Routledge, London, 1990), pp. xiv + 308, $82.95, ISBN 0-1415-00409-8 Meheroo Jussawalla	417
Electronic Highways: An Introduction to Telecommunications in the 1990's by Peter Westerway (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990), pp. xxiii + 112, $AUDl7.95, ISBN 0-04-442207-5 Peter B. White	419
Toxic Fish and Sewer Surfing by Sharon Beder (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989), pp. xvii + 176, $12.95, ISBN 0-04-442112-5 (pbk) W. Thomas	420
Professional Engineers in Australia: Population Analysis by Michael R. Rice and Brian E. Lloyd (Engineering Labour Force Series No.2, EPM Consulting Group, in association with the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and the Association of Professional Engineers, Australia, 1990), pp. x + 86, $A45.00, ISBN 0-646-00759-9 Andrew H. Wilson	422
Technology Transfer: A Communication Perspective edited by F. Williams and D.V. Gibson (Sage Publications, London, 1990), pp. 302, £13.95, ISBN 0-8039-3741-5 D. McL. Lamberton	426
International Telecommunications in Hong Kong: The Case for Liberalisation by Milton Mueller (Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1991), pp. xiii + 137, $HK60.00, ISBN 962-201-509-3 A. Newstead	427
Leisure and Life-Style: A Comparative Analysis of Free Time edited by Anna Olszewska and K. Roberts (Sage Publications, London, 1989), pp. 200, £ 27.50, ISBN 0-8039-8215-1 M. R. Crick	430