The ABF had its suspicions that different approaches to infrastructure could lead to greater economic benefits for three of Australia's most well-established industrial regions. This report is the end result of a two-year action research project involving key infrastructure experts and stakeholders. The project takes a wider angle on infrastructure and identifies a small number...

E-commerce technologies are changing the business realities of rural non-farm businesses, but this change is incremental rather than revolutionary. This study provides a snapshot into rural Australia to determine the reality of the implications of electronic commerce for rural non-farm businesses. Undertaken against the backdrop of current literature - where substantial changes to businesses as...

This study by Dr. Lyndal Thorburn, Dr. John Langdale and Prof. John Houghton aimed to provide an evaluation of the contributions made by foreign multinationals (foreign MNCs) to the Australian economy. Foreign MNCs include firms that integrate research, production and distribution across at least two countries but are headquartered outside Australia, as well as "multi-domestic...

This paper, by Professor Ian Marsh and Brendan Shaw of AGSM, University of NSW, argues that the Australian wine industry has experienced remarkable change since the mid-1980s. Australia produces only 2% of world wine, but now holds 2.4% of the world wine market by volume and 3.5% by value. Industry collaboration has facilitated, or contributed...

The Australian Business Foundation commissioned this study to monitor further Australia's innovation performance, building on the findings of the Foundation's inaugural report, The High Road or the Low Road: Alternatives for Australia's Future? (1997). This 1999 report, by Professor Jane Marceau and Dr Karen Manley, found that Australia's innovation performance over the 1990s was mixed.