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

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...

Patents pending: Building a transparent national view of IP

9 October 2024 | by Dr Tony Granville and Dr Andrew Gregory

We have all seen the headlines – Australia is one of the lowest R&D-funded OECD countries, coming in below 1.6 per cent of GDP and falling, more than a...

Turning around Australia’s lagging economic complexity

17 July 2024 | by Roy Green

Productivity growth has driven prosperity in developed and emerging economies since the Industrial Revolution. But it has now stalled in many of these economies, unfortunately nowhere more so than...

Australia ranked fifth in global digital government survey

30 January 2024 | by Justin Hendry

Australia has placed fifth out of 38 countries in a global ranking of digital governments, placing above Estonia and snapping at the heels of other advanced economies like Norway and...

‘Empty words’: Top three digital govt goal scrapped

19 December 2023 | by Justin Hendry

The Albanese government has scrapped the Coalition’s lofty goal of Australia becoming one of the top three digital governments in the world by 2025 in its first digital and...

Croc Pitch winner’s psychology of robotics in industrial settings

13 October 2023 | by Nicole Bittar

Fostering the diversity of ideas emerging from countries with small populations like Australia can propel organic growth and progress innovation more rapidly than expected. One example of an innovation...

Budget boost for ATO’s multinational tax tilt

10 May 2023 | by Joseph Brookes

The Tax Office has been armed with $111 million to implement a new minimum tax rate targeted at tax dodging multinationals. The government is expected to collect more than...

CRCs need $50 million boost, says peak body

1 February 2023 | by Brandon How

Cooperative Research Australia has called for a $50 million boost to the cooperative research centres program, backing recommendations made in the positive 2021 ACIL Allen review released earlier this...

ARM manufacturing hub approved as research institute

20 July 2022 | by Brandon How

The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub in Brisbane is the first independent manufacturing innovation hub in Australia to receive approved research institute status, two years after its establishment. The...

Innovation and productivity forgotten in a lost decade

11 April 2022 | by Peter Roberts

I have lost count how many from prime minister’s down have claimed to be working to make Australia a clever country, a maker of innovative things. Well guess what,...

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

Patents pending: Building a transparent national view of IP

Turning around Australia’s lagging economic complexity

Australia ranked fifth in global digital government survey

‘Empty words’: Top three digital govt goal scrapped

Croc Pitch winner’s psychology of robotics in industrial settings

Budget boost for ATO’s multinational tax tilt

CRCs need $50 million boost, says peak body

ARM manufacturing hub approved as research institute

Innovation and productivity forgotten in a lost decade

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