Today in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Elliot Duff identifies the issue as a lack of capability in diffusing knowledge through the economy to its grass roots. Knowledge Diffusion in Australia While doubling R&D spending to 3% will help turbo-charge the Australian innovation system, it is essential…
Today in the closing days of our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Professor Danny Samson looks at picking winners in R&D. His conclusion – no guarantees but a structured approach can help. We all pick winners: so let’s do it well! From governments and big businesses to startup…
A welcome focus on growing Australian capability Industry-research collaboration advocate Cooperative Research Australia (CRA) has praised the focus on growing Australia’s science and technological performance, continued support for Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) funding, and plans to transform Australian R&D. Budget 2024 “has put education, research, manufacturing and industrial transformation at its core” said CRA CEO…
The Sentinel 830R rigid hull inflatable military boat has received a thumbs up from His Excellency, Ambassador of Ukraine Vasyl Myroshnychenko. Manufacturer Sentinel Boats of Derwent, Hobart took to social media to reveal that on a visit by the Ambassador they announced that a consignment 830R RHIBs would be sent to Ukraine as part of…
Emeritus Professor Roy Green of UTS Sydney said the budget responded to a critical moment in Australia’s economic history. Green said: The world is shifting from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy to meet net zero targets. “And it is recognising the importance of participating in the industries of the future by moving up…
By Jessica Olivier Rather than the manufacturing sector as a whole, the Budget focused on critical minerals, clean energy and green technologies, and it was pleasing to see the announcement of $500 million for the tertiary sector to increase skills in manufacturing and clean energy, as well as the announcement of various initiatives to lift…
A loss of sovereign control of industry is a key issue raised in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Here, Allen Roberts examines innovation in the critical food manufacturing sector. The recent declaration of ‘A Future Made in Australia’ by the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has put the…
Aluminium chemicals company Alpha HPA’s Alpha Sapphire has successfully grown the first ~300kg of synthetic sapphire crystal boules (pictured) in maiden growth runs from the company’s first two sapphire growth units at the facility in Gladstone, Queensland. The facility, which recently achieved its first small scale commercial production of high purity aluminium nitrate (Al-nitrate,) produced…
The Port of Newcastle is close to realising its ambition of becoming New South Wales’ second container port, bringing competition back into import export, following a determination from the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s (IPART). IPART determined that the port was required to make a one-off compensation payment of $10,120,000 (approx. $13,100,000 when adjusted for…
By Peter Roberts If a plethora of ambitious programmes and many, many billions of dollars are all that it takes to reverse manufacturing’s long term slide, then Jim Chalmers budget 2024 delivered tonight has made a welcome start on setting the $124 billion sector up for a new period of expansion. While headlines were the…
