Tag: CSIRO

Space agency handed two-year budget lifeline

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Australia’s space industry regulator will still face a funding cliff in 2028 despite a $22 million top up in Tuesday’s federal budget and in defiance of warnings the vital...

A mass exodus of science and technology workers is underway

Posted on   |  by Ryan Winn
This time last year, Treasurer Jim Chalmers spoke about five ‘seismic changes’ reshaping the world in his federal Budget speech. Shifts from globalisation to fragmentation, hydrocarbons to renewables, IT...

Budget drop: CSIRO gets a last-minute funding boost

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Just months after announcing hundreds of research scientist redundancies, Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has been thrown a budget lifeline. In November the agency said it would shed up...

A new model: An Innovation and Industrial Strategy Commission

Posted on   |  by Dr John H Howard
Australia already has many of the institutional ingredients for effective innovation ecosystem development. What it lacks is coordination among these instruments around shared objectives. An Australian Innovation and Industrial...

CSIRO plunges down patent rankings amid AI filing spree

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has slipped down the country’s patent rankings, falling out of the top five most active applicants amid a surge in filings from a...

The institutional instruments of effective innovation progress

Posted on   |  by Dr John H Howard
Australia possesses many of the institutional ingredients for effective innovation ecosystem development. What it lacks is coordination among these instruments around shared, place-based objectives. Each operates according to its...

Coordinating the portfolio: Strategy for place-based ecosystems

Posted on   |  by Dr John H Howard
Australia’s Industry, Innovation and Science portfolio contains the building blocks of a coordinated approach to place-based innovation. CSIRO’s property consolidation, the National Reconstruction Fund, the Industry Capability Network, and...

CSIRO joins Finland’s quantum research network

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Australia and Finland’s national science agencies have signed an agreement to collaborate on research and development aimed at pushing quantum technologies towards practical industrial deployment. The Commonwealth Scientific and...