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Australia Background Report/Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Adults

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01-Feb-2008

This report addresses the training and assessment needs of adults with low basic skills in Australia.

CERI - Schooling for Tomorrow Country Initiatives: South Australia

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02-Nov-2006

CERI - Schooling for Tomorrow Country Initiatives of futures thinking in action: a report on the project called Creating the Future Victoria,  South Australia

Creation and Governance of Human Genetic Research Databases

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31-Oct-2006

Summarises proceedings of a conference looking at examples of human genetic research databases, how they are established, how they are managed and governed, how they might be commercialised, and what the policy considerations might be.

CERI - Schooling for Tomorrow Country Initiatives: Victoria, Australia

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05-Sep-2006

CERI - Schooling for Tomorrow Country Initiatives of futures thinking in: a report which sets out to provide an overview of Victoria – ‘Focus on the Future program’ in Australia.

CERI - What Works - Australia Country Background Report

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03-Jul-2006

CERI - What Works: Country background report: Addressing the training and assessment needs of adults with low basic skills in Australia, by Josie Misko

Government R&D Funding and Company Behaviour: Measuring Behavioural Additionality

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08-Jun-2006

This publication explores the emerging concept of behavioural additionality (how government funding of business R&D affects the behaviour of firms) and summarises results of a multinational effort to measure it.

Innovation and Knowledge-Intensive Service Activities

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13-Mar-2006

This study shows how knowledge-intensive services activities (KISAs) contribute to the acquisition and growth capabilities of firms and public sector organisations.

Governance of Innovation Systems, Vol. 2: Case Studies in Innovation Policy

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15-Nov-2005

This book presents case studies on innovation policy governance in Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Finland, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. It provides fresh insight into how governments are striving to make innovation policy more coherent.

STI Outlook 2004: National Science, Technology and Innovation Policies

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06-Jan-2005

This page contains links to responses prepared by 24 member countries and 3 observers (China, Russia and South Africa) to the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy to a questionnaire inquiring about recent policy changes in seven areas of growing importance.

NIS (Phase III) - IFN: Collaboration between Manufacturing Firms and Knowledge Institutions on Product Development

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01-Jan-2001

The present paper focus upon a key feature of innovation systems, the collaboration between firms in industry and what is here broadly termed knowledge institutions. It is researched what types of firms ...

Performance Budgeting in OECD countries

This book reviews the experiences of eight OECD countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States) which have developed and used performance information in the budget process.

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