Centre for Ideas and The Economy

Ideas are central to economic productivity and the competitiveness of economies. This is as true for ideas from management and social sciences as it is for basic science and technology.

Paramount in this is the quality of ideas. The Centre for Ideas and the Economy is dedicated towards the generation, evaluation and dissemination of new ideas. Its aim is to improve the quality of ideas employed in business and public policy. Its mission is to generate new products and services that will allow a broad constituency to apply the knowledge that exists in management and social science.

This website is a repository of CITE's activities and a resource for those who wish to deploy and employ high quality ideas in business and public policy. Contained here are CITE's research, evaluations and pathways by which CITE disseminates ideas.

 
  
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Job threat grows
Sunday Times , pg 67, 04 January 2009
More gloom for WA as manufacturing declines. Manufacturing activity has declined for the seventh straight month - with the biggest falls in WA and Queensland - as demand here and offshore remains in free-fall amid global recession. In a gloomy new year outlook, economists are predicting unemployment could rise through 2009 from its current 4.4 per cent level towards 8 per cent - the worst level in a decade. "Unemployment of 8 per cent in 2010 is on the cards. It's quite likely," the Melbourne Business School's Mark Crosby said.