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The program is implemented on a whole-ofgovernment basis with funding allocated to a mix of programs delivered by State government agencies, and on a contestable basis to non-government organisations for projects and activities of strategic importance. (DSRD 2001f; p5). The majority of the initiatives and projects covered by the TCP are highly relevant for the growth of the biotechnology sector7. Table 2 summarises the five strategic planks of the plan and includes examples of the types of activities important to each facet of the strategic framework.
Formal quality assurance benchmarking would seem a logical additional antecedent to accompany this. The level of commitment or ‘partnering’ that exists between owner-manager and the employees may also be important. By contrast, the personal business values of the owner-manager appear to have a negative influence. INNOVATION: management, policy & practice Volume 4, Issue 1–3, December 2002 Innovativeness in small firms: Study of the perspectives of growth oriented owner-managers In the post-survey discussions, a respondent who owns a computer software development company employing 32 people admitted that, while he saw his employees as an important source of competitive advantage and valued them as an asset, he would like them to be more proactive in generation of new ideas.
The increased use of information technologies in the biotechnology sector has considerably contracted the time taken to move from discovery to a product commercialisation stage1 and the completion of the human genome sequence has opened up enormous potential for the development of new medicines and therapeutics. Moreover, like information technology, biotechnology is viewed as an important platform technology which will revolutionalise a broad range of sectors extending from health and agriculture through to forestry, mining, environmental technologies, food production, aquaculture and marine biology (Biotechnology Australia 2000a; pp1–5).