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Renewed calls for R&D boost: Science Meets Reality

Australia’s industry development and economic well-being is being held back by a lack of strategy and bold, long-term funding, according to advocacy group Science and Technology Australia’s new president,...

Innovation future needs ‘clear-eyed’ plan: Outgoing STA chief

29 January 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

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...

Ring fence basic research funding in ARC overhaul

25 January 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

Government funding for blue sky research should be protected by a legislated ring-fence in order to reverse decades of decline and to “feed the very beginning” of the innovation...

RMIT commercial research leader Sharath Sriram takes reigns at STA

28 November 2023 | by Joseph Brookes

Influential industry group Science and Technology Australia will have completely new leadership next year, with Professor Sharath Sriram on Tuesday taking the reigns as president as the search for...

Science and Technology Aust CEO Misha Schubert steps down

21 November 2023 | by Joseph Brookes

High profile Science and Technology Australia (STA) chief executive Misha Schubert has resigned from the STEM sector professional association to take up another CEO role elsewhere from February next year....

Indigenous science must be a standalone national science priority

11 October 2023 | by Joseph Brookes

Indigenous knowledge has been omitted as a standalone priority from a draft version of Australia’s new national science and research priorities, creating a “massive gap” that experts say will...

ARC-funded uni research delivers 3x return: report

29 August 2023 | by Justin Hendry

Every dollar invested by the Australian Research Council in university research over the last two decades contributed more than $3 to the economy, according to a new evaluation of...

‘Stay the course’: STEM diversity recommendations backed by program operators

16 August 2023 | by Brandon How

The draft recommendations made of the Pathway to Diversity in STEM Review panel have been broadly backed by the teams running Women in STEM programs, who say boosting diversity...

Interim Universities Accord is an ‘epic fail’ for research

19 July 2023 | by Joseph Brookes

The first steps in generational reforms to the nation’s higher education sector did not include action on research funding, despite R&D investment in Australia this year continuing a long-term...

‘Crisis point’: Commonwealth hits lowest proportional R&D spend

5 May 2023 | by Brandon How

Commonwealth spending on research and development as a proportion of GDP is expected to be the lowest on record this financial year, disappointing research peak bodies as attention turns...

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Renewed calls for R&D boost: Science Meets Reality

Innovation future needs ‘clear-eyed’ plan: Outgoing STA chief

RMIT commercial research leader Sharath Sriram takes reigns at STA

Science and Technology Aust CEO Misha Schubert steps down

Indigenous science must be a standalone national science priority

ARC-funded uni research delivers 3x return: report

‘Stay the course’: STEM diversity recommendations backed by program operators

Interim Universities Accord is an ‘epic fail’ for research

‘Crisis point’: Commonwealth hits lowest proportional R&D spend

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