INDUSTRY POLICY AND OTHER THING 

Karl Reed has had a major interest in Industry Policy, Decentralisation and Other Things. While these do not relate to directly to his position at La trobe university, they constitute a body of  work that goes beyond mere “commentary”, and, as such, my be interesting to visitors to this Site

See also Karl’s Declarations for my expectations on the IP in my submissions



The ACS-ASHA 1982 Trade Mission to Singapore and Japan. Australia’s First ICT Trade Mission-Brochure


Reed,K(1988) Wither The Australian Information Technology Industries-A Bicentennial Lament,

           after dinner speech Building Electronics Conference, he Project Managers Forum Conference,

           New Parliament   House, Canberra ACT March 1988.


Reed,K(2012) Call for a study of the feasibility of a program for multiple 1 million person Growth Centres by 2015 (Revised 2016) originally a briefing Note for Dr. Ben Gursansky,

Advisor to the Hon Simon Crean, MHR. Minister for Minister for Regional Australia

Regional Development and Local Government Minister for the Arts (revised 11/03/2016)


Reed, K (2013) Submission to The Productivity Commission Inquiry on Australia's Automotive Manufacturing Industry 2013 V.04 (minor revisions to original submission)


ACS Technical Board for Computer Systems and Computer Engineering Report to ACS Council Nov 2006


Karl’s Committee Membership History Dec 2020


ACS WA Branch Conference 2004     Life in the 21st century-is this IT? Or Lies, Damned Lies and Misconceptions about Australia 0r  How I learned stopped worrying and now love our failure to have companies like Nokia, Ericsson and Acer


2011 Modern living 2.0 v002 How Per capita Emissions Global to survivable level

       (First proposed in 2009)