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In an era of transformation, manufacturing still matters.
With voter confidence already low, the National-led coalition will have difficulty fulfilling pre-election promises while delivering a prudent budget in May.
Cotton is one of the world’s largest crops and is harvested with large, heavy machines. Robotic harvesting could yield higher-quality cotton with less damage to plants and soil.
The latest government showdown over the budget risks not only a shutdown but jobs, regional economies and America’s competitiveness in AI and other advanced fields.
From lit-up orbs to bland office blocks, cities are full of buildings that people do or do not like. What really shapes how they live – for better or for worse – is urban planning.
How corporate dominance holds us all back.
We look to politicians to provide climate change solutions, but there is only so much they can do. Beyond regulation, governments should remember the key role they play in promoting innovation.
Food systems are increasingly disrupted by climate disasters, while also being a major contributor to climate change. World leaders at COP28 vowed to do something about it.
A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
Learning about Generative AI should include supporting collaborative interdisciplinary research and writing ethical prompts to help discover what it can do.
Canada’s partnership in the world’s largest radio telescope, located in South Africa and Australia, creates new opportunities for research, but the benefits go beyond astronomy.
Research on how people adopt new technologies suggests the transition is now well under way.
Policies that foster diversity, equity and inclusion have been shown to have many positive operational impacts − including leading to more worker engagement.
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially.
Traditional businesses operate with an established solution to a known problem. Startups focus on a product or service no one else provides.
Secondary publishing rights could facilitate immediate open access to publicly funded research and foster global innovation and discovery.
The recent declines of Threads and ChatGPT attest to the reality that rapid and widespread acceptance doesn’t necessarily lead to long-term success.
In the marketplace of ideas, for an app or product to be considered successful, it must be widely adopted for it to represent an innovation.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Visiting Professor, Imperial College Business School, and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor and Founding Director of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy, Queensland University of Technology
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, The University of Western Australia
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Researcher in Entrepreneurial Creativity, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Secretary for Science Policy at the Australian Academy of Science, and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
