The Research and Development Tax Incentive will be one of the issues discussed during @AuManufacturing News and public accounting, tax, consulting and business advisory BDO’s latest webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here?. Following on from our editorial series and e-book on Australia’s faltering national research effort, the 19 September webinar features Nicola…
R&D spending in Australia is falling partly because a failure in the capital markets makes investors wary of investing in innovation, according to Dr John Howard, a speaker in our latest webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here? (information and sign up here) Innovative companies find it hard to list or gain support…
Join our latest webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here? to hear from experts discussing the slump in Australian innovation effort (information and sign up here). Innovation is the lifeblood of our economic future and we are failing badly following a 10 year decline in measured R&D. https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/wp-admin/post.php?post=82543&action=edit#edit_timestamp What went wrong? What is…
Following the publication of our e-book of our editorial series Towards 3% R&D – turbocharging Australia’s innovation effort, @AuManufacturing News and public accounting, tax, consulting and business advisory BDO are proud to present a webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here?. Will Australia step up and invest as much as peer nations on…
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…
By Peter Roberts The federal government has flagged greater government intervention to nurture industry with a proposed enabling Future Made in Australia Act to set the scene for a more activist industry policy future. According to a speech to be delivered today to Queensland Press Club and leaked to media outlets, the Act is a…
By Brent Balinski The Industry Growth Program, offering grants between $50,000 and $5 million to SME and startup commercialisation projects, started accepting applications on Monday. It will no doubt be useful to a long list of companies. However, the replacement for the Entrepreneurs’ Programme does nothing to address some bigger, more immediate problems. The mood…
By Peter Roberts Australian economists have long been seen by manufacturers as the enemy as, led by those staffing the Productivity Commission, they have vigorously fought against any form of activist industry policy by government. The view is that policing backing even new industry such as green energy technologies, 3D printing or critical metals processing…
By Elizabeth Thurbon, UNSW Sydney; Alexander M. Hynd, UNSW Sydney, and Hao Tan, University of Newcastle This week, a diverse group of organisations called on the Australian federal government to establish a A$100 billion, ten-year policy package to turbocharge Australia’s green energy transition. Proposed by groups including the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Conservation…
By Peter Roberts That old industrial relic the Productivity Commission has released its latest Trade and Assistance Review, 2021-22 (TAR), and you have to hand it to them, they are really on the ball. Having spent past decades searching out the evil of tariffs and non tariff trade barriers, they have now woken up to…