Australia’s innovation system is constrained by a persistent failure to translate world-class research into industrial capability and commercial outcomes. Drawing lessons from the German city of Kaiserslautern and its transformation through Fraunhofer Institutes, Dr John Howard and Peter Moar argue that Australia must have applied research institutes dedicated to bridging the gap between universities and…
@AuManufacturing turns today in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – to one of the bright sparks in the innovation scene – the development of a research-based space industry. By Xavier Orr. Australia’s space sector has skyrocketed in the past two decades. As of 2008, Australia was the only…
Today @AuManufacturing launches its new editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – with the facts about the crash in R&D over the past decade. Here in this edited excerpt (full paper link below) Dr John Howard details the innovation slump. In 1981, Australia spent 0.90% of its GDP on R&D…
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…