Theorizing policy-industry processes: A media policy field approach

A model with policy network approach for entrepreneurship policy making

One policy making issue that needs to be addressed more effectively through an intergovernmental and participatory approach is entrepreneurship policy. Entrepreneurship is an area where interdependencies are very high, and the establishment of collaborative relationships such as networks is vital. Therefore, a network approach in the entrepreneurial policy-making process, which leads to the inv...

Industry Policy as Innovation Policy

Many innovation policy programs of both national and state governments in Australia are implicitly or explicitly directed at seeking to transform the industrial structure of the economies to which they are applied, so that some types of industries gain prevalence (i.e. grow or create jobs) relative to other types of industry. Queensland’s Smart Queensland: Smart State Strategy 20052015, for exa...

Determining Industry Policy

Framing Media Economic Policy: A Social Economics Approach

Social and economic policy largely works through the use of various incentives and disincentives designed to affect values in covered markets. A proper understanding of the full range of values can be critical: from a political economics perspective, determining how values are framed as central or peripheral can reflect which groups are privileged; further, the effectiveness of policy can depen...

Policy Processes Support through Interoperability with Social Media

Governments of many countries attempt to increase public participation by exploiting the capabilities and high penetration of the Internet. In this direction they make considerable investments for constructing and operating e-participation websites; however, the use of them has been in general limited and below expectations. For this reason governments, in order to widen e-participation, should...