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Nov 1, 2011 · At the time, he was strongly influenced by his Presbyterian upbringing and through the church he met Norma Gilchrist, whom he later married. In his fourth year as an apprentice, Smith applied for two railway scholarships to study at the University of Sydney, and after a private crash tutorial course, he won both.
Articles 1–20. ETH Zürich - Cited by 1,150 - Comparative Environmental Politics - Air Pollution - Experimental methods - Polarization.
- International Background
- The Blue, Green and Brown Books
- Step’S Contributions to Innovation Analysis
- Development of New Data Sources on Innovation
- Innovation and Growth in ‘Low Tech’ Industries
- Innovation in Services and The Public Sector
- Systems Theories of Innovation
- Regional Innovation Processes
- The EU Dimension
- Demographic Ageing
STEP was a thoroughly Norwegian group, but it grew out of an international intellectual and research context, with its foundations in the stagnation-inflation crisis of the 1970s. This was a period of sustained economic crisis, involving the collapse of the international trade and payments system, the OPEC oil price rises, and a great deal of econo...
STEP had its own intellectual influences, mainly via three books that were known in the group as the Blue Book, the Green Bookand the Brown Book. These were extensively discussed, over several years, and had a big influence on the design of research projects and the framing of STEP’s thinking about issues. 1. The Blue Book was edited by Giovanni Do...
Out of this intellectual context, STEP began in the early 1990s to produce original ideas that gave it quite a distinct place in the growing world of innovation studies. Running through all of these areas was a strong emphasis on the role of governments in shaping innovation capabilities, via infrastructure building, education, regulation, funding ...
STEP always placed a strong emphasis on empirical work, and on using statistical sources with an economy-wide basis. But STEP researchers had strong criticism of the available data sources, which were scientific publications data, patent counts and R&D. Scientific publications had nothing at all to do with innovation, patents are at best a measure ...
When STEP began there was a broad consensus among industry policymakers that economic growth depended heavily on transitioning into high-tech industries. In almost every country, including Norway, there was a strong policy emphasis on information and communication technologies (ICT), pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, aerospace and new materials (espe...
A large part of innovation studies and policy focuses on high-tech manufacturing. But this seemed strange, given that the largest sector in all OECD economies was the service sector, and that public sector activities (also mostly services) were extremely important. These sectors provide big analytical problems, mainly because it is very difficult t...
STEP contributed strongly to one of the big developments in the modern understanding of innovation, namely ‘system’ approaches to innovation. This new intellectual development had two broad foundations. The first was the insight that most modern technologies are complex: they have many components, linked in many different ways. So if we are going t...
Even though Norway is, in terms of population, a small country, it has some marked regional differences. STEP researchers took the view that thinking on the national level is not always helpful, and that a lot of economic growth happens at the level of regions, and within regional innovation systems. Empirical work in STEP showed an extraordinary r...
STEP owed its original existence to Norges forskningsråd, and in particular to some sustained funding support in the mid 1990s, largely as a result of a decision by AD Svein Sundsbø. This made it possible to develop a research programme around many of the themes described above. But there was also a big expansion of STEP at that time, following fro...
A second area where STEP was a pioneer was some of the very first work on demographic ageing. STEP was early to see the implications of population ageing, and worked on the technology policy implications of coping with a bigger population of older people. The main technological challenges were identified as technologies for life-long learning, tech...
Oct 10, 2018 · The perception that climate change poses a risk or danger increases the likelihood of behavioural change and willingness to pay to address climate change. The belief that climate change is unstoppable reduces the behavioural and policy response to climate change and moderates risk perception.
- Adam Mayer, E. Keith Smith
- 2019
Dec 1, 1993 · This study shows that ocean conditions play a significant role in explaining the demand for beach recreation in Australia and it is therefore necessary for tourism management authorities or local governments to provide accurate and timely weather and ocean information to local, domestic and international beach users. Expand. 17. Highly Influenced.
Oct 14, 2020 · When Keith Smith left his career at Disney to cover the NBA full-time, he had no idea his two worlds were about to collide.
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