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Publication Date: 2009
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The Trade Practices Act, Competitive Neutrality and Research Costing: Issues for Australian Universities
Bezzobs, Tania
Australian Universities' Review, v51 n1 p21-29 2009
Increasingly universities are becoming commercial enterprises and their core activities of teaching and research subject to business imperatives. This paper reviews the research costing methodologies of 17 Australian universities. Tension between Competition Law and Competitive Neutrality exists which could be resolved through improved costing and pricing transparency for research. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Competition, Research Administration, Research and Development, Input Output Analysis, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Research Methodology, Intellectual Property, Educational Practices, Public Policy, Free Enterprise System, Foreign Countries
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