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    <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Reconceptualising Porter's Diamond for the Australian Context.</h1>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Wickham, Mark</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Reconceptualising Porter's Diamond for the Australian Context.</xhtml:em> Journal of New Business Ideas and Trends, 3 (2). pp. 40-48. ISSN 1446-8719</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_2030' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1566/1/Wickham_NBIT.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_2030' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_2030"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1566/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1566/1/Wickham_NBIT.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF (Author Version)</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />118Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://www.beverens.com.au/jnbit/about.php">http://www.beverens.com.au/jnbit/about.php</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Porter's Diamond Factor Model (DFM) is a theoretical framework that achieved prominence in Australian economic policy development since its inception in 1990.  Despite its widespread adoption, however, Australia has remained significantly below the OECD average in terms of its industrial clusters' contributions to innovation and real wealth creation. In order to conceptualise the specific role that Porter's DFM might play in the Australian policy development context, this paper analyses the 25-year history of the interaction between the Tasmanian state government and the Tasmanian Light Shipbuilding Industry cluster.  This analysis provides an insight into the set of government roles that facilitated the development of one of Australia's most internationally competitive industry clusters, and proposes a re-conceptualisation of Porter's DFM that will potentially increase its value as a predictive tool for regional economic development. </p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The definitive version is held at http://www.beverens.com.au/jnbit/about.php</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Government, Industry Clusters, Porter, Policy, and Internationalisation.</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/350212.html">350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services &gt; 350200 Business and Management &gt; 350212 International Business</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/350211.html">350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services &gt; 350200 Business and Management &gt; 350211 Innovation and Technology Management</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1566</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Mark Wickham</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">13 Aug 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1566;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&amp;eprintid=1566">item control page</a></p>
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