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…
Cathy Foley to lead expert methane reporting panel The federal government has appointed Chief Scientist Cathy Foley to lead an expert panel as part of efforts to ensure the ongoing reporting for methane and other greenhouse gases is accurate and transparent. The Government has released its response to the recommendations of the 2023 review of…
Australia’s Group of Eight major universities has issued a decadal roadmap to return the nation to a necessary 3% of GDP devoted to R&D. (Download @AuManufacturing’s Towards 3% R&D e-book here) Here Dr Philip Chindamo proposes actions to boost business R&D. A thriving, innovative, and internationally competitive economy is essential to maintain our standard of…
The obsession of universities with growth through international rankings that attract fee paying foreign students has let Australia fall behind in its ability to create new, breakthrough scientific knowledge. Here Dr John Howard argues that universities talk about ‘punching above our weight’ in publication output, but they have generated only four breakthrough discoveries in the…
Through April and May, 2024 @AuManufacturing news published opinion crowd sourced from readers and members of the Australian Manufacturing Forum Linkedin group articulating the issues around a drastic slump in Australia’s innovation effort over the past 10 years, as measured by R&D. Today we launch our e-book summarising 27 expert opinions and putting the case…
When the federal government came to office it promised a timetable for announcing which competing group of businesses and research institutions would be funded to perform R&D under the hugely successful Cooperative Research Centres scheme. Bids cost big dollars to put together, says Dr Tony Peacock, with business now dismayed that the latest deadline for…
The University of South Australia (UniSA) today opened a brand-new Advanced Manufacturing facility and revealed industry investment in four space research projects under the iLAuNCH Trailblazer programme. The projects have attracted over $18 million in cash funding from space relented companies SMR Automotive Australia, VPG Innovation, Northrop Grumman and Spiral Blue. The SA Deputy Premier…
Round 15 of the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) has backed five research projects with a total of $3.8 million in grants, including those involving nanomaterials for water remediation and recycling metal from disused mobile phones. According to a statement from federal industry minister Ed Husic on Wednesday, Indian and Australian researchers were cooperating through…