Australia must tweak business incentives and fund more pilot lines to pull university research across the valley of death with industry, according to materials scientist and recycling pioneer Veena...
Research
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Major Australian science groups are warning the government’s generational review of research and development is overlooking discovery work, threatening Australia’s “wellspring of innovation”. The Australian Academy of Science on...
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Three university graduates have been named as inaugural fellows in Breakthrough Victoria’s pre-seed funding program, which will distribute up to $150,000 each to 50 researchers developing commercial ventures. The...
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Scientists have sounded the alarm that a generational review of Australia’s research and development system is off course and could plant the seeds of another blue sky funding crunch....
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Australia’s national academy of engineers and scientists has broadly endorsed the blueprint laid out by the Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD), but has also urged government to...
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Australia’s $25 billion medical research fund could be dispersing more than twice what it is currently – an extra $750 million annually – and still break even, according to...
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Australia’s $4.2 trillion superannuation pool has been highlighted as a potential source of much-needed capital for early-stage innovation, with a new government issues paper pointing to the current system’s...
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Australia’s largest transmission provider Transgrid has put a call out to local innovators to help manage electricity demand, offering up part of its $4.7 million innovation fund. The NSW...
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Australia has begun exploratory talks with the European Commission about joining the $170 billion Horizon Europe initiative, the world’s largest funding program for research and innovation. Science minister Tim...
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More than $72 million in new medical research grants for projects ranging from chronic disease prevention and health equity to artificial intelligence in hospitals have been announced by the...
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US researchers that analysed hundreds of enterprise level generative AI tools found only one in 20 actually delivered significant value, despite big businesses pouring more than $60 billion into...
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The university sector’s peak body will on Wednesday push for new tax breaks for companies that partner with universities on research and development, even if it means reducing the...
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Australian and New Zealand universities are teaming up to strike better open access deals with research publishers, in one of the first tests of how an alliance model could...
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Government R&D spending as a share of GDP is set to continue its slide after a brief bump over the last two years, with new data forecasting expenditure will...