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Financial incentives alone won’t increase research collaboration between universities and business. Academics say they need time, support and an environment encouraging of engagement.
Demand for research grants has far exceeded supply, with success rates for grant applications falling to record lows.
What are the key policy challenges facing the new Turnbull government in terms of economic growth and budgets, cities, transport, energy, school education, higher education and health?
A number of high-profile cases in which academics have fabricated their data points to a much larger problem around scholarly misconduct.
Pyne talked more about changing taxes and incentives to stimulate growth and industry, whereas Carr had clear plans for government investment.
Increasing the amount that students pay towards their degree is likely to be on the cards of higher education in this year’s election.
A new review of research training in Australia calls for transferable skills to be central to the training of PhD students.
Improving data quality and accessibility will provide an important platform for business, policy innovation and academic research.
Reforming Australia’s research training system and providing more funding support could help increase PhD completion rates for Indigenous students.
Between 50-75% of all collaborations fail. Here are some tips on how to set up a successful collaboration between academia and industry.
The new impact framework will improve some of the problems arising out of the ERA’s university research audit, but major challenges will remain.
The innovation report fails to mention the risk of bias for researchers collaborating with industry. We must ensure that researchers maintain their independence.
Making the whole process of auditing research open to the public could help reduce the capacity for universities to game the system.
A government report on research funding and policy has recommended introducing a funding incentive to ensure university research benefits society and business.
Publicly-funded research should contribute to society in some way. But we need to think carefully about how we create a system that allows us to measure the impact of research.
Being up front about what public investment goes towards in higher education is an important step for providing greater clarity for students.
We can’t fulfil Malcolm Turnbull’s ambition for an innovative nation without understanding why researchers are struggling to engage with industry.
A lack of government guidance on how student tuition fees should be used by universities is resulting in money for teaching being spent on research instead.
With Christmas not far off, universities will be hoping for some early presents in the form of good results in the UK’s long-awaited assessment of the quality of university research. Although the funding…
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