Norman Henry Birch

Birch, Robert W.

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“…The Committee Report reviewed the span of the Organisation's operations. 51 It recommended CSIRO remain a single organisation and that it continue its existing role in performing longer-term research to support Australian industry. It saw the principal role of CSIRO as strategic mission-oriented research and indicatively, proposed a research mix of 10% fundamental, 60% strategic-mission, and 30% tactical-problem oriented research).…”

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Promoting Australian industry: CSIRO 1949–79

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2019

Hist. Rec. Aust. Sci.

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This paper addresses the manner in which the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) transferred its technology to Australian industry during the period 1949 to 1979. The analysis is framed within the changing economic and political scene in Australia and the changing expectations for public research organisations such as CSIRO. During the 1950s and 1960s CSIRO gave little direct attention to the processes of technology transfer but instead, following the prevailing wisdom, focused on high quality science and relied on existing extension services and patenting to capture the benefits from its research. This ‘science-push’ approach proved successful for Australia’s rural industries but, with a few exceptions, less so for the country’s secondary industries. By the early 1970s CSIRO faced pressures for change, induced by a tougher economic climate and changing views on the role of public research institutions. A shift toward greater customer relevance in its research would also need to be matched by new thinking about technology transfer.

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Section: Government and The Role Of Csiromentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Australian industry: CSIRO 1949–79

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2019

Hist. Rec. Aust. Sci.

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Norman Henry Birch

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Promoting Australian industry: CSIRO 1949–79

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