In 2025, an Australian professor – Richard Robson from the University of Melbourne – shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with two others for work over years in discovering...
Anyone at the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit in Adelaide last month will have recognised an increased sense of urgency attached to defence tech development efforts....
Miah Hammond-Errey has had a career within the national intelligence community building strategies and programs that harness big data and emerging technologies to help meet national security objectives. It...
Australian universities play an outsized role in the local innovation system compared to peer economies and should attract a larger portion of system funding to support that effort, UNSW...
The federal government has pushed to get research translation at the centre of industry policy, but policy debate has shifted from funding to finding organisations willing to become first...
Major-General Mick Ryan spent 35 years in the Australian Army. Since retiring from service, he was appointed the Lowy Institute inaugural senior fellow in military studies and has been...
Former senator Kim Carr spent 30 years in the federal Parliament holding ministerial portfolios as wide ranging as Human Services, Higher Education and Defence Material. But he is best...
Kersti Eesmaa is well known to the local cybersecurity community as the former Ambassador of Estonia to Australia who is now a driving force behind a push to create...
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered many lessons across the world, especially in relation to fragile supply chains. Some of these lessons have been well learned in Australia, while others were...
Encouraging greater business investment in R&D to activate the Australian innovation system is key to driving better commercial translation outcomes for local research, according to Science and Technology Australia...