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Article: How to climb high technology.(The Australian Miracle: An Innovative Nation Revisited)(Book review)
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- March 1, 2007
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The Australian Miracle: An Innovative Nation Revisited, by Thomas Barlow; Pan Macmillan, 2006, $25.
THE PRINCIPAL VALUE of this book becomes apparent on the first page of the preface, where the following anecdote is related. The Executive Director of the Federation of Scientific and Technological Societies, the umbrella body for Australian science and technology, told Barlow, "As far as anyone can remember, you are the first person employed as a science policy adviser who actually has a science background."
Indeed, Barlow has a science and technology background in spades: a distinguished undergraduate record at the University of Sydney, doctorate at ...