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The Industry Papers – Hard Copy

The Industry Papers is a 65,000-word, tabloid-sized newspaper filled with policy papers from a stable of leading researchers, academics, entrepreneurs and business people – each putting forward policy proposals for driving Australian industry.

There are important questions being asked right now about Australia’s industrial capacity and whether the domestic capability exists to scale-up production in key areas if we were to experience supply chain shocks.

The Industry Papers are a platform for industry leaders to address the systemic barriers to the development of local industry. The papers shine a light on the sectors where we need to work hard to build genuine capability and industrial capacity.

We began with The Innovation Papers in 2022, followed by The Capability Papers in 2023, and now The Industry Papers marks the third instalment in the InnovationAus.com ‘Papers’ series. If you missed out on any of the previous editions, you have the option to order the full trilogy pack!

Dispatching of papers will commence on Thursday, 12 September 2024.

What’s inside

Geopolitics and strategic industrial priorities – Dr Marina Yue Zhang, Professor Roy Green & Professor Mark Dodgson – PAGE 3

Modern industrial policy requires strategic direction with clear goals – Toby Phillips & Esther Koh – PAGE 7

The Australian research system: How does it compare to global peers? – Dr John H Howard – PAGE 9

What does building a quantum ecosystem look like? – Dr Cathy Foley – PAGE 13

Material returns for next generation semiconductors – Dr Ian Mann & Stef Winwood – PAGE 16

Australia can be a world leader in nanomanufacturing – Frank Yao – PAGE 18

Semiconductor expertise is a key economic building block – Dr Nadia Court – PAGE 20

Creating local ingredients for quantum success – Professor Stephen Bartlett – PAGE 22

Rebuilding national competitive advantage – David McKeague – PAGE 24

Our economic future maps to powerful location intelligence – Dean Capobianco – PAGE 26

Zero-shot inference and the future of forecasting – Alexei Domorev – PAGE 29

Gladwell 2.0 – Professor Thomas Hajdu – PAGE 31

Our leaders must be fluent in the language of technology – Dr Kai Riemer, Dr Sandra Peter & Dr Pat Norman – PAGE 35

The sagacious school: Education for the age of agility – Dr Jamie Dorrington – PAGE 38

The high price of bureaucratic power – Dr Priya Dev – PAGE 40

Patents pending: Building a transparent national view of IP – Dr Tony Granville & Dr Andrew Gregory – PAGE 44

Do no harm: Managing the social risks of AI – Jordan Guiao – PAGE 45

People with disabilities also have abilities. They want to contribute – George Naumovski – PAGE 48

The NRF is out of alignment with the investment needs of smaller firms – Kate Whitehead – PAGE 49

Banking on brain capital is a smart investment – Rachel Slattery – PAGE 52

Australia’s next global industry: Biosecurity – Adrian Turner – PAGE 53

Powering the nation’s data centre opportunity – Belinda Dennett – PAGE 57

Reclaiming sovereignty over strategic technologies – Adam Gilmour – PAGE 59

Queensland sharpens focus on quantum and Net Zero – Professor Kerrie Wilson – PAGE 62

On top of the food chain: Leveraging our natural biosecurity advantages – Aleksandar Vranesevic – PAGE 64

Blueprint for a 3D-printed future for manufacturing – Simon Marriott, Dr Frank Wagner & Dr Matthew Young – PAGE 65

Extended Reality tech is going off with a boom – Rhiannon Phillips, Emma Murtagh & Alanna Koh – PAGE 68

Biochar carbon removal as an industry superpower – James Stewart & Michael Hallam – PAGE 70

Building new tech industries: Robotics provides a masterclass – Dr Sue Keay – PAGE 72

HealthTech needs an international roadmap for local success – Ben Constable – PAGE 3

Ian Meredith: Charting a course to global markets – Denham Sadler – PAGE 8

Synchron beats a successful path from lab to market – Q&A with Professor Nicholas Opie – PAGE 11

The true cost of Australia’s ‘silver tsunami’ – Kate Carnell AO – PAGE 15

The invisible enemy: Driving healthcare-related infections to zero – Angus Dixon – PAGE 20

Solving Australia’s commercialisation dilemma – Bronwyn Le Grice – PAGE 24

Unlocking a boom in ground-breaking cancer treatment – Professor Fabienne Mackay – PAGE 28