The 10 charts that lay bare Australia’s $32bn R&D challenge


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Australia will need to invest another $25 billion each year to catch up to the OECD average on investment in research and development or another $32 billion to achieve federal Labor’s stretch goal.

That is according to a paper launched on Wednesday to kick off a year-long examination of a national R&D system that has morphed over 30 years and suffered from falling investment since 2008.

The paper is sobering …

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