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THE MIC PROGRAM AND THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE POLICY
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The need to develop policies relating to the development of venture capital markets in Australia was reported regularly in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in science and technology policy literature. The Hawke Government's response to this area of market failure was to implement the MIC program. The history of this program indicates that although venture capital has been identified as an area of market failure, the program has been supported in accordance with the political climate prevailing at the time.
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For empirical evidence of this assertion as one example of much literature on the subject, Department of Industry and Commerce, Establishment of an Advisory Service on Computer Assistance in the Manufacturing Industry., AGPS, Canberra, 1984.
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ibid., p. 180.
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ibid., p. 25.
ibid., p. 26.
ibid., p. 64.
For a more detailed discussion of this contention see N. F. Ryan, Aspects of Science Policy in the Political Sphere 1972–1984., Master of Science Dissertation, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1986.
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This is supported empirically in Ryan, op. cit.
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ibid., p. 4.
ibid., p. 4.
ibid., p. 4.
These concepts were originally developed by Nelson and Arrow but are reviewed in an Australian context by R.A. Joseph and R. Johnston, ‘Market failure and government support for science and technology: economic theory versus political practice’, Prometheus., 3, 1, June 1985.
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ibid.
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ibid.
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ibid.
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ibid., p. xvii.
ibid., p. xviii.
ibid., p. xviii.
N. F. Ryan, Developing Australia's Industrial Base, The Creation of Venture Capital and the Management and Investment Companies Program., Master of Philosophy Thesis, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1987, especially Chapters 6 & 7. The spokespersons referred to here were representatives of MICs and are cited in this thesis.
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ibid., p. 90.
ibid., p. 73.
ibid., p. 107.
ibid., p. 108.
ibid., p. xx.
ibid., p. 128.
ibid., p. xxi.
Ryan, op. cit., chapter 6.
See, for example, Jones’ speech in introducing the MIC legislation to Parliament, Parliamentary Debates — Hansard. The House of Representatives, 30 November, 1983.
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