Tag: SERD

Intergenerational inequity as an innovation moonshot: Bill Ferris

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian venture capital legend Bill Ferris has urged government – and the Strategic Examination of R&D – to address “intergenerational inequities” as a supporting framework for building national missions...

‘Somebody has to lose’: Why reshaping R&D is so hard

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
As a generational review of Australia’s research and development system prepares recommendations for wholesale change, the country’s top industry mandarin warns some stakeholders will be left unhappy. Industry department...

The urgency of the SERD review must be a positive sign

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Robyn Denholm-led Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) review looks like it will be wrapped-up two months early, which can only be taken as a positive sign of the...

New startup, SME streams proposed for RDTI

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Startups and SMEs would be treated differently to large enterprises under changes to the R&D Tax Incentive proposed through the Strategic Examination of Research and Development. Tax breaks would...

R&D review panel sketches out plan to ‘translate ideas’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Tax breaks for companies undertaking research and development would be simplified and reworked to “encourage scale” under changes being contemplated to jump-start Australia’s R&D system. The panel leading the...

Blast off: SERD proposes radical mission style innovation

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A root and branch review of Australia’s R&D system has proposed channelling it into a handful of “focus areas” with multi-decade horizons like energy and health, while backing it...

Beyond absorption: Building ecosystems that deliver impact

Posted on   |  by Professor Cori Stewart
Victor Pantano is right to point out that much of Australian industry struggles to engage with research. The problem is well rehearsed – businesses have too few R&D skilled...

Tech Council pushes more ‘realistic’ R&D target

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s peak tech industry lobby has urged the federal government to adopt an R&D investment target of 2 per cent of GDP by 2035, putting it at odds with...