Australia’s political leaders must make clearer, bolder commitments to funding innovation and the systems needed to exploit it as global competition for new industries reaches unprecedented levels, outgoing Science and Technology Australia chief Misha Schubert says.
Ms Schubert, who this week ends four years at the helm of the STEM sector professional association, said the stakes have never been higher but Australia still lacks the type of decisive innovation plan of its global competitors.
“We are on the cusp of a decade of scientific and technological innovation that will be on warp speed, at a scale and pace the likes of which humanity has never before witnessed,” Ms Schubert said.
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