The early and mid-career researchers who bear most of the teaching and research workload are exhausted and underpaid. Many won’t survive the funding squeeze, but Australia can’t afford to lose them.
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While there are various good reasons for doing research and funding research, the chief reason is that research provides essential insurance against catastrophic events.
Crowdsourcing is a promising approach to biomedical research and development (R&D) and could produce solutions to pandemics like this one.
A symposium celebrated a roadmap for the American scientific enterprise laid out 75 years ago. What should be included in a US research plan that would last through the rest of this century?
The US research funder is widely admired, but does the UK have the guts to start its own version?
At the current rate, technical and vocational education and training will overtake the university budget in the next five to 10 years
Cutting carbon use depends on changing social norms and behaviour as much as technology.
Universities, industry and government should work together so that knowledge translates into socio-economic benefits.
Given Africa’s projected population growth, management of its environment must be a global priority
Under the New Zealand government’s well-being approach to the budget, funding that will help reduce emissions is linked with economic development and innovation.
In Southern Africa, high rates of HIV infection have been the primary driver of TB
To move towards a knowledge-based economy, Indonesia needs to invest its research funds strategically.
Today, universities fulfil many of the science councils’ roles at a much lower cost while also training postgraduate students.
With a budget surplus in sight, it makes no sense to cut funding from Australia’s research capacity.
After declining for nearly a decade, the number of hungry people in the world is growing again. Climate change, which is disrupting weather patterns that farmers rely on, is a major cause.
Working with organisations outside the business – universities, research bodies, other businesses – can greatly expand Australian firms’ capacity to innovate and match larger rivals overseas.
Money always seems tight for university scientists. A sociologist conducted hundreds of interviews to see how they think about funding sources and profit motives for basic and applied research.
Many Budget 2018 measures appear to have origins in proposals advanced by the science community.
Here are five ways the Treasurer could boost revenue to make the numbers work.
Traditional accounting calculates a company’s value by measuring physical assets and how much they owe. But we can tweak this for today’s economy by including people and their ability to innovate.
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
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Professorial fellow, Flinders University; Australian National University
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Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Policy, ADFA Canberra, UNSW
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Research Policy, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Innovator in Residence, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, TU Wien
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Director of programmes, African Academy of Sciences
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Associate Professor, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Assoc Prof. Renewable Energy, Monash University