Tag: SERD

Gates-backed founder: Use SERD to scale biotech intelligence

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s subscale capabilities in developing new drugs will need smart policy and emerging tech to bridge the decade-long divide between medical research and commercialisation. That’s according to Dr Craig...

MYEFO cuts $102m from Industry Growth Program

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government will cut $102 million in uncommitted funding from its flagship early-stage commercialisation initiative designed to help startups bridge the funding gap. The Industry Growth Program (IGP)...

Ayres to mull landmark R&D review over summer break

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A once-in-a-generation review of Australia’s research and development system has been completed and delivered to the Albanese government, but won’t be released until next year. The Strategic Examination of...

SERD findings must focus on business needs and outcomes

Posted on   |  by Dr Tony Granville
The Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD), announced by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources in February of this year, begins with the statement: “The immense potential of Australian...

CSIRO grounds missions model in research overhaul

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The national science agency will not launch any more large scale research missions and is folding current ones like ending plastic waste and achieving net zero into its regular...

Private capital is the key to Australia’s innovation gains

Posted on   |  by Alex Hawke
In Australian politics, we talk a lot about innovation. But too often, we forget what actually drives it: private sector capital. As economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote, “the capitalist engine...

More scientists warn on research review’s business blinders

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Major Australian science groups are warning the government’s generational review of research and development is overlooking discovery work, threatening Australia’s “wellspring of innovation”. The Australian Academy of Science on...

SERD’s impact focus a ‘threat’ to discovery research

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Scientists have sounded the alarm that a generational review of Australia’s research and development system is off course and could plant the seeds of another blue sky funding crunch....