Article ID: CBB114381174

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

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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
Upstill, Garrett
Alff, David
Berman, Elizabeth Popp
Christoff, Peter
Crook, Tom
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Australian Journal of Politics and History
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Environmental History
History and Anthropology
Publishers
Harvard University Asia Center
Harvard University Press
Princeton University Press
Routledge
Springer Nature
Concepts
Government sponsored science
Science and government
Science and economics
Science and politics
Radio astronomy
Research
People
Khruschchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Pearcey, Trevor
Swift, Jonathan
Fraser, Robert Donald Bruce
Anderson, Joan Mary
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
Australia
Great Britain
Japan
United States
Sydney (Australia)
Korea
Institutions
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (Australia)
Australian National University
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