Using tax incentives to motivate innovation is more nuanced than governments sometimes assume.
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Research and development is critical if South Africa wants to effectively increase its renewable energy output.
Some of the new(ish) initiatives in the Innovation and Science Agenda may help in small ways, but it doesn’t provide the answer what happens after the innovation.
Australia’s insolvency laws are behind world best practice and need reform.
Graduates should be taught entrepreneurship skills.
Australia is being rapidly outpaced by its innovative international competitors.
Bill Ferris talks about the need for Australia to bring its ideas and inventions to market, and the way to tackle a business culture that fears failure.
An emphasis on innovation is great, but we need genuine reforms to universities and tax incentives if we’re to promote collaboration between research and industry.
A national innovation agenda is bound to undershoot its promise if R&D is not inherently embraced by the top ranks of corporate Australia.
The answer to Australia’s ailing innovation system does not lie with universities, which should stick to teaching and research, and aim to do both well.
A coherent innovation policy requires a focus on fostering networks, and learning from economies similar to ours.
When academics come up with a viable innovation, they need to figure out the best way to protect their intellectual property if they’re going to bring it to market. Patents aren’t always the answer.
If we want to boost innovation in this country, we should emulate a scheme that has proven highly successful in the United States.
We value the boosted career and wealth outcomes for graduates and what that does for our economy, but university has more value than that.
Countries will take emissions reduction pledges to international climate talks in Paris at the end of this year. Those pledges should also include funds for low-carbon R&D.
Commentators continue to call for new infrastructure to lift Australia’s flagging economic growth, yet there is a significant lack of awareness over what constitutes infrastructure. Infrastructure is not…
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane let his discretion slip this week in a speech to the Queensland Media Club when foreshadowing an upcoming report on research funding and competition. Distancing himself…
After a few years of increased funding, Australian research has recently started to face cutbacks and job losses. This boom and bust cycle for science is nothing new but is it time to take a new approach…
What happens to CSIRO when the federal government decides to strip away A$111 million over four years from its A$733 million annual contribution to the organisation’s budget? We are beginning to find out…
The message from the federal government’s Commission of Audit is loud and clear: science, research and education are expenses to be trimmed rather than investments to be nurtured. Yes, there are few big…
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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