Editorial
Vale Lin-su Kim
Mark Dodgson
Technology and Innovation Management Centre, University of Queensland Business School, St Lucia QLD
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Welcome to Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice volume 5/1-2 (April/August 2003). Considerable interest has been shown in the relaunched journal, particularly from Europe, as the content of the current double issue attests. We are delighted to have accepted good quality contributions from authors in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK, as well as Californian, Japanese, Australian and New Zealand authors. Thank you for joining us.
Subscription renewals for 2004 are robust, with most new subscribers coming from Japan, the USA and the UK. Now that all back issue abstracts and contents tables are loaded, the journal website is being accessed primarily by US Commercial and ANZ visitors, with rapidly growing proportions from EU member countries and North East Asia. Issue plans for 2004 and further expansion of web content will be announced in volume 5/3 (Dec 2003) of Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice. Content of interest will continue to appear.
Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice has a policy of providing constructive feedback on submitted articles as part of its commitment to innovation education. While we welcome literature reviews and research reports from recent postgraduates, thanks are also due to our anonymous peer reviewers for their detailed comments on all submitted manuscripts.
Importantly, we welcome ten new members to our Editorial board: as Associate Editors - Jorge Niosi, Université du Québec à Montréal; Poh Kam Wong, National University of Singapore; Guido Reger, University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg; Albert I. Goldberg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa; Horacio Viana Di Prisco, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, Caracas; Keith Smith, UN University Maastricht; and Lan Xue, Tsinghua University, Beijing; as Conference Editor - Sally Davenport, Victoria University of Wellington; as Advisory Board members - Peter Lednor, Shell International Chemicals, Amsterdam and Houston; and Ray Goodsir, DCE MIS Consultants, Schiphol. We appreciate their contribution.
Since our last edition, Professor Linsu Kim, our Associate Editor in South Korea, has sadly passed away. Professor Kim balanced an extraordinarily productive academic career with high administrative office. His books and articles on innovation and economic development will remain classics. His 1997 book, Imitation to Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press, provides the best analysis of Korea's exceptional economic development. It provides both a record of Korea's achievements, and a source of inspiration for other countries wishing to follow Korea's path from poverty to economic strength. In his public life, Professor Kim served at various times as President of the Science and Technology Policy Institute, Chairman of the Government Reform Council of the Republic of Korea, and Chairman of the Humanities and Social Research Council. Linsu Kim was a wise and gentle man, an inspiring mentor and friend to very many people. He will be terribly missed by the international innovation research community, and especially by everyone who was lucky enough to have known him.
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