Tag: Universities

Technology unis call for CPI-indexed R&D funding

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Australia should follow other nations in pegging public funding for research to inflation to give researchers and partners more confidence, technology focused universities have told a generation review of...

Private sector research contracts hit $1bn for first time

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s public research institutions landed more than $1 billion worth of private sector research contracts for the first time in 2023, according to an annual survey by Knowledge Commercialisation...

Fuse RDTI and NRF to drive research investment: Go8

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The multibillion-dollar R&D tax incentive should be expanded to offer equity and debt financing from the National Reconstruction Fund to businesses that collaborate with local research institutions, the Group of...

NSW unis overlook national cyber laws

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
NSW universities overlooked federal laws designed to help protect critical infrastructure assets from cyber incidents in their first full year of operation by failing to identify critical systems and...

Record low R&D spending growth in higher education

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
University spending on R&D as a share of GDP has recorded its biggest two-year decline in more than 30 years, despite total investment by the higher education sector climbing...