Australian cooperative research centres get thumbs up

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 988-988
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ban
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Cooperative Research Centres ◽  
Research Centres

When Triple Helix Unravels

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Gray ◽  
Eric Sundstrom ◽  
Louis G. Tornatzky ◽  
Lindsey McGowen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cooperative Research Centres ◽  
Research Centres ◽  
Learning Points

Cooperative research centres (CRCs) increasingly foster Triple Helix (industry–university–government) collaboration and represent significant vehicles for cooperation across sectors, the promotion of knowledge and technology transfer and ultimately the acceleration of innovation. A growing social science literature on CRCs focuses on their management and best practices, mainly through success stories and rarely by describing and analysing CRC failures. The literature on CRCs can benefit by learning from failures, as has been seen in other areas of social science. Here the authors present four mini-cases of CRC failures – centres that were successfully launched but later declined and closed – and, in contrast, one mini-case of a success story. The analysis identifies: (a) likely contributing factors in the failures, mainly environmental influences and mismanagement of centre transitions; (b) themes in the failures, notably a tendency for problems in one area to magnify the impact of problems in other areas; and (c) learning points for CRCs concerning leadership and succession. The implications for Triple Helix organizations are discussed.

scholarly journals Cross-sector research collaboration in Australia: the Cooperative Research Centres Program at the crossroads

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Turpin ◽  
Sam Garrett-Jones ◽  
Richard Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Sector Research ◽  
Cooperative Research Centres ◽  
Research Centres

Ralph Owen Slatyer 1929–2012

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Graham Farquhar
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Plant Ecology ◽  
Plant Succession ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Environmental Biology ◽  
Research School ◽  
National University ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Cooperative Research Centres ◽  
Research Centres

Ralph Slatyer (16 April 1929–26 July 2012) had a distinguished career in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Australian National University, in plant-water relations and plant succession, leading the development of physiological plant ecology. He was the founding Professor of Environmental Biology at the Research School of Biological Sciences, at the Australian National University and then Director of the Research School of Biological Sciences, 1984–9. He was Australian Ambassador to United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organisation (1978–81), and as Australia’s first Chief Scientist (1989–92), he set up the Cooperative Research Centres.

Organizational management in australian cooperative research centres

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shantha Liyanage ◽  
Helen Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Management ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Cooperative Research Centres ◽  
Research Centres

Cooperative research centres: The concept and its implementation

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph O. Slatyer
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Cooperative Research Centres ◽  
Research Centres

The Cooperative Research Centres Programme

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Tegart
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Research Culture ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Cooperative Research Centres ◽  
Research Centres ◽  
Centres Of Expertise ◽  
Australian Universities

The Cooperative Research Centres programme was initiated in Australia in 1990 to strengthen the linkages between producers and users of research and thus ensure that research results were commercialized where appropriate. In this article, the author discusses the development of centres of expertise in Australian universities against the background of paradigm shifts in innovation, competitiveness and university-government-industry relationships. The Cooperative Research Centres programme represents the most ambitious of the various developments in recent years and he describes the selection, organization and linkages of these Centres. He analyses their impact on universities and on the research culture in Australia. Significant changes are occurring in the attitudes of researchers and traditional systems will need to be adapted to accommodate these changes. The Centres also offer opportunities for a new approach to international cooperation.

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