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THE Gallop Government's guillotining of former premier Brian Burke's and one-time minister Julian Grill's lobbying work highlights several interesting inconsistencies.
FUND managers believe universities are too focused on basic research and do not have a strong commercial outlook. For their part the universities say that a failure to back pure research stifles ‘chance' commercially viable opportunities.
WA does not have an innovation strategy and, according to TechStart Australia venture manager Marcus Christian, WA is the only State in Australia besides Tasmania without a biotechnology strategy.
In the first of a six-part series on corporate superannuation, Mark Beyer looks at the impact of increased regulation.
AUSTRALIAN companies are voting with their feet.
MUCH is hanging on next month's scheduled announcement of the preferred tenderer, or possibly tenderers, to supply electricity to Western Power in six West Kimberley centres.
THE report of the HIH Royal Commission has added to the debate over audit independence and accounting standards by recommending changes that go well beyond current reform proposals.
ONCE considered by those outside the loop as little more than the latest ‘must have' for mobile phone-attached teens, short message service (SMS) technology has evolved to embrace a vast new world of information.
WHILE there may be a small run on The West Australian's stock if cross media ownership laws change, it appears unlikely that the paper will become a takeover target.
A YAWNING chasm between the State's research sector and its development counterpart appears to be the principal barrier to Western Australia securing a larger share of the national funding allotment.
HOPES for email's role as a lucrative and effective marketing tool are fading fast due to the misuse and lack of understanding of the medium as a direct marketing tool.
THE Rising Stars Index is a platform to showcase private enterprises in Western Australia that have sustained high rates of growth over the two financial years ending June 30 2002.
THE advertising industry is mourning the loss of one of its most impressive figures with Ken Ferguson, a founding member of Marketforce and a driving force behind agencies such as The
MAINSHEET Corporate is a corporate strategy and advisory firm unlike any other.
While many corporate advisory firms have been established by lawyers, Mainsheet has grown up and still exists inside a law firm environment.