Tony Mossfield Research Fellow, Centre for Regional Research

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Tony MossfieldResearch Fellow, Centre for
Regional Research InnovationSystems
Coordinator Regional Information Technology,
UWSInformation Systems Manager, Airwaves
Technology
LIVING CENTRES PROGRAM
Growth of ICT in the Sydney Metropolitan
area Buck Rogers or Duck Dodgers ?
An initiative of the NSW Department of Urban
Affairs and Planning
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GWS Regional Indicators 1(Turnover Medical,
Health, Scientific 1995 2005)
(Mossfield 1997)

• Region 1995 Am 2005 Am Growth
• Baulkham Hills 320 390 21.9
• Blacktown 244 308 26.2
• Blue Mountains 112 145 29.5
• Camden 25 32 28.0
• Campbelltown 115 145 26.1
• Fairfield 133 170 27.8
• Hawkesbury 45 60 33.3
• Holroyd 112 135 20.5
• Liverpool 168 215 28.0
• Parramatta 360 710 97.2
• Penrith 195 240 23.1
• Wollondilly 22 27 22.7
• GWS 1,851 2,577 39.2

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G WS Regional Indicators 2 (Employment
Medical, Health Scientific Industries)
(Mossfield 1997)

• Region 1995 Am 2005 Am Growth
• Baulkham Hills 3,000 3,600 20.0
• Blacktown 3,600 4,600 27.8
• Blue Mountains 1,950 2,500 28.2
• Camden 420 540 28.6
• Campbelltown 1,760 2,250 27.8
• Fairfield 2,130 2,730 28.2
• Hawkesbury 780 1,000 28.2
• Holroyd 1,260 1,600 27.0
• Liverpool 2,750 3,530 28.4
• Parramatta 8,760 11,240 28.3
• Penrith 3,100 3,400 9.7
• Wollondilly 320 410 28.1
• GWS 29,830 37,400 25.4

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Projections Study 1

• The Industry Sectors which appear most likely to
  achieve 60/60 growth in both Sydney and the
  Greater West, include
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•          BioTechnology (Soft)
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•          Communications (including
  Telecommunications)
•          Electronics
•          Financial Services (primarily
  non-banking)
•          Hospitality (Accommodation, Cafes
  Restaurants). (Mossfield 2001)

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Projections Study 2

• Other sectors that have been identified as having
  reasonable prospects for growth (50), include
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•          Advanced Manufacturing
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•          BioTechnology (Hard)
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•          Construction (non-Residential)
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•          Eco-Engineering
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•          Multi-Media (a broad, emerging industry
  and problematic definition)
•    Research and Development (Mossfield 2001)

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BusinessGrowthMap

• (Mossfield 2001)

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What is BioTech ?

• Wells  Biotechnology Knowledge Areas and
  Subdivisions
• Brown, Kemp, Hall Biotechnology Content
  Organizers
• FOUNDATIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY 
• Definition of biotechnology 
• Historical background 
• Relevant terms 
• Career information 
• Social impact

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Environmental BioTech

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• Bioremediation  
• Biological controls 
• Biotreatment systems 
• Biorestoration 
• Environmental safety

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Agricultural BioTech

• AGRICULTURE 
• Tissue culturing  
• Plant and animal applications  
• Agrichemicals  
• Aquaculture 
• Food science

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BioProcessing

• Fermentation 
• Bio-products 
• Microbial applications 
• Separation and purification techniques 
• Process design monitoring and growth

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Genetic Engineering

• Probing techniques
• Genetic engineering applications
• Genetic code
• Molecular bio techniques
• Analysis of DNA

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BioChemistry

• Enzymology
• Control and regulation
• Proteins
• Methods of analysis
• Carbohydrates

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Medicine

• Molecular medicine
• Immunology
• Genetic therapeutics
• Health care technologies
• Social impact

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BioEthics

• Principles of ethics
• Impacts of using biotechnology
• Potentials of gene therapy
• Patenting of life
• Forensics

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TheEnvironmental PerspectiveToxic Waste
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The Socio-Cultural Perspective

• In Future Shock, Toffler warns us about The
  dizzying disorientation people feel when the
  future arrives sooner than they expect it
• Recently, the computer has touched off a storm of
  fresh ideas about man as an interacting part of
  larger systems, about his physiology, the way he
  learns, the way he remembers, the way he makes
  decisions. Virtually every intellectual
  discipline has been hit by a wave of
  imaginative hypotheses triggered by the invention
  and diffusion of the computer--and the full
  impact has not yet struck. And so the innovative
  cycle, feeding on itself, speeds up.
• (Toffler 1970)
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• Thus, there is a danger at Homebush Bay, as
  elsewhere, that technological advances might
  outpace our ability to keep up with them.
• One of the answers to this dilemma might be found
  in the Knowledge Economy, and in BioTech as an
  important and emerging part of that economy. The
  Knowledge Economy means that we are no longer
  dealing with commodities, but with information
  and ideas. Knowledge can tell us as much about
  ourselves and society as it can about production
  and income generation.

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The Economic Perspective

• What is required for Homebush Bay is
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• q       a focus, and I am suggesting that
  Environmental Bio-Technology appears to be a more
  than appropriate focus, and
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• q       a process of Strategies for Innovation.
  In other words, we need to know how to establish
  and promote the process, then stand aside as the
  process takes over.

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Tony MossfieldResearch Fellow, Centre for
Regional Research InnovationSystems
Coordinator Regional Information Technology,
UWSInformation Systems Manager, Airwaves
Technology
LIVING CENTRES PROGRAM
Growth of ICT in the Sydney Metropolitan
area Buck Rogers or Duck Dodgers ?
An initiative of the NSW Department of Urban
Affairs and Planning