Tech Council pushes more ‘realistic’ R&D target


Australia’s peak tech industry lobby has urged the federal government to adopt an R&D investment target of 2 per cent of GDP by 2035, putting it at odds with other industry groups and the research community.

The proposal would shave a full percentage off the 3 per cent target that has become a consensus view among the country’s leading science, research and business groups in recent years.

But Tech Council …

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