Tag: innovation papers

Building an Australian Social Data Observatory

Posted on   |  by Professor Julian Thomas
In March 2021, Facebook announced it was building Instagram for under-13s1. By May, 44 US Attorneys General had written to Mark Zuckerberg demanding that he stop the project because,...

A manufacturer’s paradise? Building our food ecosystem

Posted on   |  by Dr Mirjana Prica
The food and agribusiness sector plays an important role in feeding Australians and is a fundamental pillar underpinning Australia’s economy. The sector, however, is not meeting its full potential....

Improving trust through digital deliberative dialogue

Posted on   |  by Matt Crozier and Sally Hussey
The Sutherland Shire Council in Sydney’s south is facing one of the biggest and most common challenges for local governments around the world. The coastal area is experiencing an...

Tech safety that includes removal of harmful systems

Posted on   |  by Justin Warren
Innovation is about taking risks, but we waste a lot of time taking unnecessary risks with known failure modes and then acting surprised when the inevitable happens. Failures that...

Traceability is vital for carbon-free energy transformation

Posted on   |  by Steve Hoy
How governments, companies and communities procure and consume clean energy has the potential to transform and decarbonise Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) electricity grid. In the future, net zero...

Towards a connected national innovation ecosystem

Posted on   |  by Jason Mingo
Many capital-intensive industries are facing unprecedented challenges with increasing costs due to supply chain constraints, labour shortages, and ensuring infrastructure resilience in a time of increasing natural disasters and...

Rules as code: Regulatory infrastructure for a digital age

Posted on   |  by Marina Yastreboff
Is Australia’s current regulatory infrastructure capable of supporting a leading digital economy by 2030 or responding to rapid technological, social and economic change? Are Australia’s overwhelmingly analogue regulations fit...

Measuring Australia’s return on innovation

Posted on   |  by Dr Marcus Powe
If we review the funding policies for entrepreneurship in Australia over the last 30 years, it is apparent that the focus has been primarily on research, startups, incubators and...

Embrace workplace diversity to build a stronger economy

Posted on   |  by Luli Adeyemo
With the latest Census data showing Australia to be more culturally diverse than ever, leaders in the public and private sectors now face one of the nation’s most significant...