New Zealand trails far behind other wealthy countries in research funding and strategy. This inhibits the innovation that could drive a more productive economy.
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At the recent Buckingham Palace Education and Skills Garden Party, the Royal Gardens and lake set the stage to reflect on embedding sustainability into innovation.
Today’s supercomputers are enormously powerful, but the work they do − running AI and tackling difficult science − is pushing them to their limits. Building bigger supercomputers won’t be easy.
Support for businesses is particularly pressing during times of economic crises so that they can adapt their innovation plans.
High-growth firms, including start-ups known as “gazelles”, boost economic development and employment. AI methods can help identify them.
For the first time, some ideas for reform have been crowdsourced from across the Australian community. Here are a few of the best ideas.
The problem is that costs – especially the costs to faculty – often go ignored.
Health, infrastructure and AI are among the key themes being tackled.
If Canadians want to fund education, health care and climate adaptation, Canada must grow its economy. And to do that, it needs smarter innovation policy.
A range of contractual clauses can be used to limit how and where you work after you leave a job. While they may protect legitimate business interests, their overuse undermines job mobility and innovation.
US patent law says inventors must be human, but they can use AI. This changes the nature of invention and raises the question: Is this what the founders had in mind when they set up the patent system?
Relying on strategy over brand recognition.
Research, development and innovation are essential for fulfilling state-owned enterprises’ mandates and driving economic growth.
AI innovation and governance can coexist. The key is combining public-private partnerships, market audits and accountability.
Beyond the few privileged spaces of creation, the entire city is what counts. The city’s offerings encourage new innovation.
To survive the current economic climate, small and medium-sized businesses need to move digital technology from the margins to the core of what they do.
Universities can have a reputation for being too slow or academic for New Zealand businesses to work with. But new research suggests the opposite is true.
On more than half of 80 economic, social and environmental targets, progress has stagnated or is moving backwards. But modelling shows there’s still time to change course.
Just 2 layers of materials commonly used in biomedical labs can mimic the electrical properties of human skin.
Dubai has many images. Being a hub for international research probably isn’t one, yet
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Innovator in Residence, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor and Founding Director of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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Visiting Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Directeur de l'agence Villes Innovations, Chercheur associé au laboratoire PACTE (Université de Grenoble), Co-fondateur du Laboratoire d’usages culture(s)-art-société (LUCAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute