Corporate Control, Foreign Ownership Regulations and Technology Transfer (journal article)
By Jota Ishikawa, Yoichi Sugita and Laixun Zhao
from Economic Record Vol 85 Iss 269 2009, pp. 197 - 209
"Multinationals are often required to form joint ventures (JVs) with local firms when entering the host country market. Explicitly taking corporate control into account, we explore the relationship between technology transfer and foreign ownership regulation in the presence of technology spillovers from JVs to local firms. It is shown that foreign ownership regulations may facilitate both technology transfer and spillovers when the multinational has corporate control. Under corporate control by the local partner firm, however, such regulations may hamper technology transfer."

White House wants cloud computing (article)
by Doug Beizer
From Federal Computer Week, 11 May 2009
"Cloud computing will play a major role in modernizing the federal government’s technology infrastructure, according to a White House document published today with the administration's 2010 budget request. Cloud computing refers to an arrangement in which an organization pays a service provider to deliver applications, computing power and storage via the Web. Under the White House’s plan, several agencies could access a common application from the cloud. "

The effective use of technology in personal knowledge management: A framework of skills, tools and user context (journal article)
by Raj Agnihotri and Marvin D. Troutt
from Online Information Review, Vol 33, No 2, 2009
"The objective of this paper is to further explore the emerging concept of personal knowledge management (PKM) and to bring researchers’ attention to this notion. Specifically, this paper aims to address issues related to the effective utilisation of technology in PKM practices. The success of technology utilisation resides not simply in whether individuals use technology, but if this usage actually increases effectiveness."

Business cases for info pros : here’s why, here’s how [book]

Author: Ulla De Stricker

"An inherent challenge for information professionals involves often difficult-to-quantify contributions of their initiatives to an organization’s bottom line and the elusive ROI calculation. In this practical guide, Ulla de Stricker explains why, when, and how a formal business case can be used as an effective tool for gaining support for information-based projects." - cover.

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Review of regulatory burden on the upstream petroleum (oil and gas) sector [book]

Author: Australia. Productivity Commission

"Identifies significant unnecessary costs from delays and uncertainties in obtaining approvals, duplication of compliance requirements, and inconsistent administration of regulatory processes." - foreword.

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The Response of the Australian coal industry to the sustainable development agenda [online]

Authors: University of Queensland. Sustainable Minerals Institute / Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP)

"Over the last two decades, sustainable development has emerged as the key organising concept to describe how society can balance the objective of improving quality of life while staying within environmental boundaries. ... [this report] has the objective of developing an approach to describe the response of the Australian coal industry to the sustainable development agenda." - executive summary.

Urban structures and commuting in Australian cities (journal article)
by Peter Rickwood and Garry Glazebrook
from Urban Policy and Research, March 2009
"Studies looking at the relationship between urban form and travel behaviour have generally considered spatial information at coarse metropolitan or local government area scales. We analyse ABS census data at the Collection District level for the metropolitan areas of the mainland Australian state capital cities, and at various spatial scales for an in-depth analysis of commuting in Sydney. The analyses suggest that the relationship between travel behaviour and urban form is complex, and that simple analyses of density alone are likely to overstate the effect of both metropolitan and neighbourhood scale population density on mode choice, but that these variables serve as useful proxies for more complex measures of urban structure. "

Recharging Detroit (journal article)
by Paul Keegan
from Fortune, 27 April 2009 pp. 54-60
"The article discusses competition to develop battery technology for use in electric vehicles. Several Asian firms including Sanyo, NEC, and LG are seen to have a substantial technological advantage over U.S. companies. An economic stimulus package signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama included $2 billion for advanced battery manufacturing."

Suburban sprawl a poor option, says planning expert (journal article)
by Rachel Borchardt
from Government News, April 2009
"Professor Rob Adams, director of design and urban environment at Melbourne City Council, said governments must get the message that high-density housing solutions were a better option than inefficient suburban communities.
“A thousand houses built on the periphery of your city will cost $300 million more than 1000 houses built within the footprint of your city,” Adam told attendees at the Local Government Association of Queensland’s 2009 Infrastructure Symposium."

Finding Nemo (journal article)
by Peter Pockley
from Australasian Science, Vol 30, No. 4, May 2009
"James Cook discovered the East Australia Current ore than two centuries ago, but its profound influence on eastern Australia is only now coming to be understood."

David Bellamy on Noosa Biosphere (article)
by Wendy O'Hanlon
from Acres Australia, the national newspaper of sustainable agriculture, Vol 17 No 1 2009
"One of Prof. Bellamy's main concerns is that while the focus is on global warming we are taking our eye off the ball in relation to the critical biodiversity issues and the loss of our forests to urban exposure. That is why he considers Noosa's Biosphere Reserve as a shining example of man living in harmony with nature."

Managing projects with wikis (journal article)
by Ephraim Schwartz
from Information Age, December 2008/January 2009
"Wikis are deceptively easy to use and install, so are nowadays found in all sorts of ICT departments, especially as quick and simple project management organisers.
Although wikis are used mainly as project management tool, says Stewart Mader, principal at the GrowYourWiki consultancy, they can provide other advantages as well, such as in customer/client collaboration, documentation and developing an online community."

Evaluating web site quality: the value of a multi paradigm approach (journal article)
by Dieter Fink and Casty Nyaga
from Benchmarking: and International Journal, Vol 16 No 2 2009, pp. 259-273
"The aim of this paper is to benchmark the quality of web sites of major public accounting (PA) firms by seeking the opinions of potential clients and analysing the data to establish best quality practice for PA web sites. "

Project management approaches for dynamic environments (journal abstract)
by Simon Collyer and Clive Warren
from International Journal of Project Management, Vol 27 No 4, May 2009, pp.355-364
"This paper investigates the properties of projects conducted in rapidly changing environments. These projects are challenged by the rapid introduction of new unknowns as they progress. One might say they are more akin to stacking worms than stacking bricks. The difficulties posed by these projects are identified and the literature is reviewed for suitable approaches."
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Justifications, Strategies, and Critical Success Factors in Successful ITIL Implementations in U.S. and Australian Companies: An Exploratory Study (journal article)
by Carol Pollard and Aileen Cater-Steel
from Information Systems Management, Vol 26 No 2, Spring 2009, pp. 164-175
"A growing number of organizations are implementing the ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) “best practice” framework in an attempt to improve their IT service management processes. However, not all ITIL implementations are successful and some companies have been disappointed with the outcomes. This exploratory research reports on four case studies of “successful” implementations of IT service management using the process-based ITIL V2 framework."

Your Solar-Power Future (journal article)
By James M. Higgins
from Futurist Vol 43 Iss 3 May/June 2009, pp. 25-29
"Solar energy may soon power our homes, office buildings, automobiles,and iPods. It's closer than you thought"

Last-Resort Solutions to Global Warming (journal article)
By Jamais Cascio
from Futurist Vol43 Iss 3 May/June 2009, pp. 8-9
"Geoengineering the planet to stave off disaster."

A Reverse Brain Drain (journal article)
By Vivek Wadhwa
from Issues in Science & Technology Vol 25 Issue 3 Spring 2009, pp. 45-52
"The United States, long the beneficiary of talented immigrants, needs to act quickly to keep these valuable workers from leaving to pursue expanding opportunities in their home countries."

In Defense of Biofuels, Done Right (journal article)
By Keith Kline et al.
from Issues in Science and Technology Vol 25 Issue 3 Spring 2009, pp. 75-84
"Despite recent claims to the contrary, plant-based fuels developed in economically and environmentally sensible ways can contribute significantly to the nation’s— indeed, the world’s—energy security while providing a host of benefits for many people worldwide."

Government strategies to attract R&D-intensive FDI (journal article)
By José Guimón
from Journal of Technology Transfer Vol 34 No 4 Aug 2009, pp. 364-379
"Competition among countries to attract the research and development (R&D) activities of multinational enterprises has increased substantially during the last years, but the strategies used by governments in this competition still remain largely unexplored. This paper addresses that gap by proposing a taxonomy of the policy instruments available to stimulate inward R&D-intensive foreign direct investment (FDI) and presenting the results of a comparative case study of two EU countries: Spain and Ireland. The main conclusion is that an efficient promotion of R&D-intensive FDI calls for a closer connection between innovation policy and inward investment promotion, which are two policy areas that have traditionally operated rather separately. In addition, investment promotion agencies targeting R&D-intensive FDI are advised to reconfigure the scope of services they provide by placing more emphasis on after-care, since R&D-intensive FDI tends to be evolutionary rather than purely greenfield."