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Engaging with Australian Industry: CSIRO in the Late Twentieth Century (2020)

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Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology Government sponsored science Science and government Science and economics 20th century, late Australia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)

The increased engagement of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) with Australian industry from the early 1980s to the late 1990s marks it as an unusual era for CSIRO. The reasons lie in CSIRO’s response to the economic and political background of the time and to government moves to reinvigorate the industrial sector. By the end of the century, external pressures for industry engagement had receded as macroeconomic conditions improved and Australian industry diversified. The engagement can be seen in the growth of direct contacts between CSIRO and research users and Australian companies that occurred across the organisation. This paper analyses CSIRO’s technology transfer policies and practices within an economic and political context and addresses two questions: why did the organisation’s approach to technology transfer change and how? We look at three mini-eras in the 1980s and 1990s and draw out major changes in technology transfer during these two decades.

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Authors & Contributors
Orchiston, Wayne
Margaret H. Friedel
Stephen R. Morton
Upstill, Garrett
McAlpine, John
Bleeker, Pieter
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Public Understanding of Science
Australian Journal of Politics and History
Publishers
Springer Nature
Routledge
Princeton University Press
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Asia Center
Concepts
Government sponsored science
Science and government
Science and economics
Land use
Funding and finance
Research
People
Anderson, Joan Mary
Fraser, Robert Donald Bruce
Slatyer, Ralph Owen
Pearcey, Trevor
Khruschchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Australia
Sydney (Australia)
United States
Japan
Papua New Guinea
Tasmania (Australia)
Institutions
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
Australian National University
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (Australia)
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