Tag: R&D

Govt R&D spend to slide after post-pandemic bump

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

R&D carved out of ‘five pillars’ productivity inquiries

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has dashed hopes of early reforms to R&D settings through the productivity roundtable process, declaring it a matter for the Strategic Examination of R&D....

R&D tax reforms could deliver $7bn boost each year

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia could reap more than $7 billion each year by reforming uncompetitive R&D tax settings, according to new economic modelling commissioned by the Business Council of Australia, Atlassian and...

Scientists demand R&D levies on big business

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Large businesses would pay multi-million dollar levies every year to fund basic research in Australia under a radical proposal being put forward by scientists as a response to plummeting...

‘Significant gap’ in AI translation despite research growth

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s AI-related patents nearly quadrupled over the nine years to 2024, while local AI-related research publications more than doubled, a new report from the National Artificial Intelligence Centre shows....

BCA calls for new investment breaks to anchor R&D in Australia

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s peak business lobby is urging the Albanese government to introduce a suite of new incentives to de-risk research and development investment and motivate businesses to develop IP locally....

No quick fix for our broken system of research funding

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is worth digging a little deeper into the important contribution that Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt and UNSW Scientia Professor of Economics Richard Holden made in their National Press...

TechOne calls for PM&C or Treasury to lead innovation push

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s innovation struggles are an intergenerational risk akin to the climate crisis, according to software powerhouse TechnologyOne, which on Thursday mapped out a “Team Australia” plan to fix it....