Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today announced the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA). Here’s what it means for science, commercialisation and industry in Australia.
Innovation Minister Christopher Pyne and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull launched the innovation statement at the CSIRO.
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A government report on research funding and policy has recommended introducing a funding incentive to ensure university research benefits society and business.
Of course, science, technology, engineering and mathematics research are important, but social sciences research creates huge benefits to society in multiple ways.
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Research in the humanities, arts and social sciences is often driven by philosophies of social justice and public benefit, which don’t always sit comfortably with commercialisation.
While small and medium companies, public research institutions and universities assume the risks of innovation, large corporations capture the profits that flow from it.
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Some large multinational firms have been very successful in positioning themselves at strategic points in global markets that enable them to capture the profits from the innovation of others.
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NASA once had 400,000 people working on space exploration. We should battle climate change in the same way.
John Howland and Dr Mark Bilandzic, winners of the Digital Media mashup award in the Libraryhack 2011 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland.
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China’s upcoming Five-Year Plan places innovation on the table, so will Australians follow the lead and transform alongside their Chinese partners?
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The collaboration required to foster more startups would benefit from a national system of entrepreneurship.
Without innovation in the agricultural sector, we’d only be able to feed, say, one billion people out of the current seven. ProFlowers/Flickr.
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An emphasis on innovation is great, but we need genuine reforms to universities and tax incentives if we’re to promote collaboration between research and industry.