Two of Australia’s top innovation policy minds have urged the federal government to refocus its artificial intelligence agenda on industrial AI, arguing this is the key to unlocking the...
Innovation system expert Roy Green says Australia should lean into its trade and research relationships with other middle power nations to mitigate an economic reliance on China, and a...
The Robyn Denholm-led panel that reviewed Australia’s R&D system has hit back at criticisms that its landmark report is too university-centric, insisting universities are far from its “centre of...
Professor Roy Green did something at the Senate’s Select Committee on Productivity last week that doesn’t happen often in Australian policy circles. The UTS innovation adviser offered a public...
For a first-time speaker at the National Press Club this week, CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton did a remarkably good job, given that he overseen the forced departure of...
A leading academic has warned that the recommendations of Australia’s landmark R&D review skew too heavily towards university-led programs at the expense of industry development, threatening a further decline...
Posted on | by Ante Prodan, Jo-An Occhipinti and Roy Green
Like electricity, artificial intelligence is a general-purpose technology. It acquires value from how it is used and applied. It took many decades for electricity to transform our economy and...
Amid global turmoil, the report of the Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) calls for “bold reform” of Australia’s “broken” research and innovation system. What better time to prepare for...
Posted on | by Troy Cordie, Roy Green and Cori Stewart
Future Made in Australia is an industrial strategy to create competitive advantage, build economic resilience, deliver the net zero transition and diversify exports through next generation, knowledge-intensive manufacturing. But...
When the government is under pressure, Paul Keating used to say, “you have to flick the switch to vaudeville”. It’s a great line but hardly an option for the...