Australia is truly the lucky country when it comes to endowments of renewable energy resources. We have more sunlit, windswept land than virtually any other country. And now that...
There is no net zero without a dramatic reduction in emissions from concrete production. While Australia has exceptional capabilities in this area, the challenge will be in creating the...
Photonics is a key enabling capability which will underpin the future security, prosperity, and social cohesion of Australia. Over the past 40 years, Australia has developed a strong core...
Materials play a crucial role in the evolution of manufacturing by forming the foundation of every product and innovation. Progress in material science and engineering has paved the way...
Nuclear energy has been the subject of much recent discussion due on the one hand to Australia’s AUKUS pillar one acquisition of nuclear powered, conventionally armed submarines, and on...
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for a “method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.” Today these ultra-high-power lasers (UHPLs) have demonstrated many revolutionary technologies that...
Australia is often called out as a world leader in both research capability and innovative technologies, the beneficiary of decades of investment from our primary industries that make up...
In mid-2020, after the initial six-week lockdown, people were trying to make sense of what Covid-19 meant for the economy and society. What would we keep? What would return...
Posted on | by Dr Marina Yue Zhang, Professor Roy Green and Professor Mark Dodgson
The development of Australia’s innovation capability is connected to the pressing need for environmental sustainability due to global warming, and rising security concerns stemming from reliance on supply chains...