Tag: IISA

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...

Recognise and mobilise Australia’s ‘missing middle’: IISA

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A small and misunderstood cohort of medium-sized firms could hold the key to addressing Australia’s structural prosperity issues, according to the federal government’s top industrial policy advisers. The medium-sized...

IISA advisory board: Waiting years for written govt direction

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It has been more than three years since the federal government’s flagship industrial development advisory board – Industry, Innovation and Science Australia (IISA) – has been given written ministerial...

Govt disbands Entrepreneurs’ Programme advisory committee

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government has dissolved the Entrepreneurs’ Programme advisory committee, sweeping away one of the last vestiges of the Coalition’s former flagship industry program. The Entrepreneurs’ Programme Committee was...

Top industry advisory board gets a low-profile makeover

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has quietly, almost silently, appointed four new directors to the board of Industry, Innovation and Science Australia (IISA) to fill vacancies that had been open for...

Gig Guide: NSW appoints its next cyber chief

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The New South Wales government has tapped Sydney Metro enterprise security leader Marie Patane to take over the challenging role of securing the state’s critical systems and data holdings....

Scale up specialist Peter Rossdeutscher named IISA chair

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Adjunct Professor and scale up specialist Peter Rossdeutscher has been appointed the federal government’s top innovation adviser after decades working across the quantum, mining, robotics, and startup sectors. The...

What now for Industry, Innovation and Science Australia?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government’s peak advisory body on industrial policy, Industry, Innovation and Science Australia, has not provided published advice since 2023. It has no chair and no deputy chair....