This 1999 report, by Professor Jane Marceau and Dr Karen Manley, found that Australia's innovation performance over the 1990s was mixed.

John Mathews argues that in the Asia-Pacific region, some outstanding successes have been registered in advanced technological fields. The case of Taiwan, which has risen to become the world's third largest producer of IT hardware and fourth largest producer of semiconductors, is striking. Singapore too has grown from a poverty stricken former colony to a...