Tag: SERD

Research and innovation has reached a tipping point

Posted on   |  by Roy Green
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...

Science leaders urge ‘system’ response to SERD report

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Science leaders have urged the federal government to take a systemic approach to its response to the Strategic Examination of R&D report, saying its 20 interconnected recommendations should not...

Landmark R&D review is a blueprint for policy overhaul

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A generational review of Australia’s R&D system has handed the Albanese government a blueprint for reform, together with warnings that chronic underinvestment and a lack of strategic direction now...

If not now, then when? Ambition calls for bold decisions

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia stands at a crossroads and the Robyn Denholm-led Strategic Examination of R&D report provides signposts for a future prosperity agenda, and a commitment to tackle challenges of intergenerational...

Sweeping R&D tax reforms pitched to close innovation gap

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Tax breaks for research and development would be streamlined and new streams introduced to target more innovative businesses under sweeping reforms proposed by a landmark review of Australia’s R&D...

Reaction: Industry hails ‘multi-generational opportunity’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Tech industry and science professional groups have cheered the release of the Strategic Review of R&D as a “multi-generational opportunity” to fix long-standing weaknesses in Australia’s research and commercialisation...

‘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...

AI firms should face digital duty of care, senator says

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Australia’s proposed digital duty of care should extend to AI companies, according to Labor senator and former AI startup founder Michelle Ananda-Rajah, who has floated a rights-based approach to...

The SERD, the BERD and the calls for AI GERD

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry and Science minister Tim Ayres will deliver the National Press Club address as part of the Science Meets Parliament festivities on March 25. The event has been sold...