Perhaps more than any other technology company, Apple has managed to master technology diffusion, with the release of the iPad offering a good illustration of the success of the company's strategies. Within 60 days of the product's release, Apple had sold over 2 million devices (Apple 2010a), and generated the kind of media hype usually...

Notions about innovation have been essentially been ignored during the debates about Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) project. This paper draws upon the work of two established theorists on innovation, Joseph A Schumpeter and Clayton Christensen (each from a different era and holding a differing perspective on innovation), to canvass issues about the possible forms...

Forty-one years after the declaration of the principle of equal pay, we’re still not there, writes Norman Abjorensen.

Public–private partnerships have turned out to be an expensive way of plugging gaps, writes Nicholas Gruen on Inside Story.

Officials will resume negotiations for a trans-Pacific free trade agreement next month. In Inside Story, Jock Given looks at the potential impact on culture and information industries.