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  1. Australian Innovation in Manufacturing: Results from an international survey cover
    Australian Innovation in Manufacturing: Results from an international survey (Research)
    Aug 2006 | Professor Mark Dodgson, Director, Technology and Innovation Management Centre, University of Queensland; Dr Peter Innes, University of Queensland
    Professor Mark Dodgson and Dr Peter Innes of the University of Queensland Business School conducted an international comparison survey to guage the nature of innovation in small and medium sized manufacturing firms.  This paper presents the Australian experience compared to the European findings.  Although the survey found that some Australian firms adopted innovation practices for process improvement and cost reduction, overall there was a less strategic approach to innovation for longer term competitive advantage demonstrated by the Australian firms than by their European counterparts.   Australian manufacturing firms risk being unable to compete with international competitors who have transformed their businesses to take advantage of market opportunities.
  2. Selling Solutions: Emerging Patterns of Product-Service Linkage in the Australian Economy cover
    Selling Solutions: Emerging Patterns of Product-Service Linkage in the Australian Economy (Research)
    Feb 2002 | Australian Expert Group of Industry Studies, University of Western Sydney
    This study was undertaken by the Australian Expert Group in Industry Studies (AEGIS) under the leadership of Professor Jane Marceau. It was funded by the Australian Research Council through a SPIRT grant and the Australian Business Foundation was the industry partner sponsoring the project.  The study confirmed that successful manufacturers were responding to increased competition in global markets by bundling together products and services into new innovative business offerings focused on solving customers' needs.  In the process, manufacturers and service providers were also generating new mixes of technical, managerial and collaboration skills and capabilities to sustain this competitive edge. 
  3. A future for our factories? (Opinion)
    Mon Jan 01 2001 | David Forman
    How Australian manufacturers can swim against the off-shore tide
  4. Those who can, speak (Opinion)
    Mon Jan 01 2001 | David Forman
    We hear from two manufacturers who have reinvented themselves to become contractors to multiple clients.
  5. High tech industries just do it too (Opinion)
    Sat Jan 01 2000 | David Forman
    Nike does it with shoes and shirts, now companies in high tech industries are finding that contract manufacturing works for them.