Tag: research and development

Real govt R&D spending plummets: Latest ABS data

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Government investment in computer science fell by $112 million in the last two years amid the slowest overall growth in direct government R&D expenditure in five years, new data...

SA budget pledges $50m for R&D fund in productivity push

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The Malinauskas government will tip $50 million into a new research and development accelerator fund in pursuit of a tech-led productivity boost, pledging to build new research institutes as...

Govt’s science council sidelined by policy reset

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Tim Ayres has defended the meeting record of the government’s top science council while teasing the lineup of the new advisory body set...

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...

SERD and the RDTI: A match that still needs work

Posted on   |  by Kris Gale
Earlier this month, InnovationAus published an excellent article by Dr John H. Howard entitled, SERD’s unanswered questions on business incentives. The article looked at three areas of concern regarding...

SERD’s unanswered questions on business incentives

Posted on   |  by Dr John H Howard
The centrepiece proposals in the Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD) report – known as Ambitious Australia – would redefine what counts as R&D, leave the fiscal cost...

‘At breaking point’: Research sector rallies around CSIRO

Posted on   |  by David Allen
CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton has rejected claims decades of funding cuts and a growing corporate focus had transformed the national science agency into “a consultancy business”, during a...

Quantum boost as Research Council dishes new funds

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Eight new Centres of Excellence announced by the Australian Research Council on Tuesday includes $70 million for two centres focused on quantum computing research over the next seven years....