Article ID: CBB334228540

CSIR and Australian industry: 1926–49 (2020)

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The primary function of CSIR, founded in 1926, was to promote primary and secondary industries in Australia. In its first decade, CSIR developed a successful model for delivering research of benefit to the primary sector. The period from the late 1930s was characterised by the expansion of CSIR, notably into secondary-industry research, and its wide-ranging and effective response to the industry and government demands during the Second World War. In the post-war years CSIR placed increasing emphasis on longer term, underlying research, as the way to benefit Australian industry. This shift raised problems for technology transfer to the secondary industry sector; it also shaped the agenda of CSIR’s successor organisation, CSIRO, in the decades after its formation in 1949.

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Authors & Contributors
Tedeschi, Paolo
Alcântara, Ana
Alves, Daniel
Bergersen, F. J.
Culvenor, C. C. J.
Deane, J. F.
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
Economic History Review
Environment and History
History of Physics Newsletter
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Journal of Economic History
Publishers
Irish Academic Press
Peter Lang
Pickering & Chatto
University of California Press
Springer Nature
Concepts
Technology and industry
Technology and economics
Railroads
Government sponsored science
Cross-national interaction
Research
People
Einstein, Albert
Minnett, Harry Clive
Pearcey, Trevor
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Australia
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Ireland
Ottoman Empire
Institutions
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (Australia)
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