After the second world war there was another bout of industry building. Here, in an extract from his Keynote Address at the 2024 Pearcey Foundation National Awards, Emeritus Professor Roy Green reflects on the creation of Australia’s first computer, and what it can teach us about today’s industry policy challenge. We are here tonight to…
On Wednesday the Industry Capability Network released a study by University of Sydney’s Phillip Toner and UTS Emeritus Professor Roy Green which recommended it should be mandatory for project proponents to work with the service which connects businesses to opportunities. Here @AuManufacturing talked to Professor Roy Green. @AuManufacturing: The ICN has been in operation for…
The Newcastle and Hunter regions of New South Wales have long been one of Australia’s most significant industrial heartlands. Here Roy Green lays out how the region can meet the challenges of climate change and transform its industrial structure. Everyone in Australia has a stake in the successful transformation of Newcastle and the coal rich…
As we have been publishing our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – new statistics have emerged that show that even higher education research, until now a national strongpoint, is faltering. Professor Roy Green details the biggest decline ever recorded in higher education research. The newly released Australian Bureau of…
Today in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – we turn to the role of national industry policy. Here Roy Green points to innovation and the success of a Future Made in Australia as intertwined. While lacking detail at this stage, the significance of Prime Minister Albanese’s Future Made…
The announcement by the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of a Future Made in Australia Act has brought a chorus of negativism as well as support and advice from industry. Samantha Donovan interviewed industry policy leader Emeritus Professor Roy Green of UTS Sydney on ABC radio – his advice is to better coordinate policy, focus on…
Emeritus Professor Roy Green was named as AM in the Australia Day honours ‘for significant service to business, and to tertiary education in the fields of science, technology and innovation’. Here Roy talks with @AuManufacturing news. @AuManufacturing: Congratulations Roy on a much deserved honour. May I ask you for your response to being honoured by…
The first CEO of bionic ear manufacturer Cochlear as a listed company Catherine Livingstone, and innovation and business academic Emeritus Professor Roy Green featured in this year’s Australia Day honours. Livingstone was awarded the highest honour, a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the General Division for eminent service to business, particularly through…
Industry Minister Ed Husic has congratulated the newest appointee to the CSIRO Board, Emeritus Professor Roy Green. Green is well known for his writings in @AuManufacturing which can be read here, as well for numerous papers and publications internationally on innovation policy and management. Roy has had a distinguished career including as Dean of the…
This week’s report from the Productivity Commission targeted Australia’s energy policies as a form of industry assistance – anathema to the dry economic policy group. Here, Roy Green finds the Commission out of touch with Australia’s needs. This is another tiresomely predictable and formulaic report from the Productivity Commission. Ironically it takes issue with the…
