Research undertaken for this thesis supports the underlying claim that education does generate externalities. By examining the impact of higher education R&D on Australian state production, the results suggest that both pure and applied R&D have a statistically significant impact on Australia's regional economic performance
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Submitted to the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance of the Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2008
Thesis (M.Ec.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2007
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