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Institutions for teaching and research Canberra has strength in terms of location of institutions for teaching and research. They include: A strong university sector—comprising the Australian National University, the University of Canberra, the Australian Defense Force Academy, the Australian Catholic University, and the Canberra Institute of Technology. The CSIRO—Divisions of …

Innovation system capability Like most large businesses, the Australian Government is pursuing innovation strategies from an internal platform. This is being seen in ICT applications in large agencies such as the ATO, Centre link, and the Australian Customs Service. Many ICT companies have been attracted to Canberra to undertake research …

The scale of government purchasing The data points to a comparatively small manufacturing sector and the substantial employment impact of the Australian Government. Over the years the Australian Government has used reductions in staffing numbers as a strategy for meeting its fiscal targets—particularly in 1996. As can be seen in …

Innovation policy objectives To many, innovation is seen as being driven by expenditure on research and development and its commercialization in new products. However, innovation also occurs in services, new business models and new ways of responding to new and changing customer wants and expectations. The above formulation of innovation …

Introduction A framework for thinking about the enabling role of ICT in innovation that draws on the foundations of both science and art is represented in Figure 2. For simplicity, the framework does not represent the role and contribution of other enabling technologies in innovation, such as biotechnology, nanotechnology and …

Tongue-twister Even native English speakers fmd the tongue-twisters on this page difikcult to say quickly. Try them yourself. Try to say them as fast as possible, but correctly! A proper copper coffee pot. Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran. Long legged ladies last longer. Pink lorry, yellow lorry. …

List of Englislt symbols The following table gives a complete list of the English vowel symbols, together with those consonant ones which require elucidation, with examp Vowels Most combinations of vowel symbols in the present ‘heteric’ spelling have more than one phonetic value in any given accent of English. Some …

Try titis Sltort Exercise Say this sentence aloud and count how many seconds it takes. The beautiful Mountain appeared transfixed in the distance. Time required? Probably about 5 seconds. Now, try speaking this sentence aloud. He can come on Sundays as long as he doesn)t have to do any homework …

R and its modifications. ‘Father’ by advancing the front of the tongue, as in ‘bit’ or else they are mixed, as in ‘bird’, in which the tongue is in a position half-way between back and front. By height they are high, as in ‘hit’, mid, as in ‘hate’ or low, …