Tag: CSIRO

Australia must tap plant-based meat boom

Posted on   |  by Claire McFarland
Australia’s strong agricultural science has built a reputation for quality. Australian beef in particular is highly sought after around the world. Almost three quarters of the beef produced in...

Love Me Tender: Grants Special

Posted on   |  by InnovationAus
International Relations Grants Program: Australia-ASEAN Council (AAC) 2020 This grant opportunity is part of the grant program which contributes to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Outcome 1...

The path we took

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When InnovationAus.com launched in 2015, Tony Abbott was still Prime Minister and mainstream discussion about innovation policy was virtually non-existent. Industry policy as it related to the tech industry...

CSIRO staff seek Fair Work relief

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The implementation of the government’s staffing cap at Australia’s national science agency will be tested as part of a Fair Work Commission challenge lodged by the CSIRO staff association....

CSIRO to shutter ON startup program

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Four years after it was unveiled as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the CSIRO is preparing to shutter its $20 million entrepreneur-focused science accelerator program known...

Staff cap part of ‘war on science’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government-imposed staffing cap at its primary science agency has put innovation “under threat”, according to the Opposition. The Coalition’s Average Staffing Level cap, introduced in 2015-16 with an...

Data61 and the new CSIRO role

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s home-grown technology sector is half the size of our global peers as a percentage of gross domestic product, four times smaller than the US (as a percentage of...

Staff cap restricts CSIRO innovation

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s arbitrary cap on public sector employee numbers is “severely undermining” its science and innovation efforts, according to the CSIRO staff association. In a submission to a...

David Thodey on the science of growth

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO chairman David Thodey has cautioned government and business alike against tightening research and innovation budgets in the face of Australia’s somewhat anaemic economic outlook. After the 27 years...