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Australia’s R&D expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product has declined over the past decade.
Experts assess Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 so far and express worry that the country does not appear to have learnt much; it isn’t prepared for the next pandemic.
The lack of dedicated funding and support for research commercialisation, on top of the other obstacles academics face, means Australia’s poor performance is no mystery.
To drive living standards upward we need new technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
The ubiquity of mobile phones is a defining feature of the 21st century, but it’s been possible to place a phone call on the go since shortly after World War II.
Just 5% of Australian businesses have collaborated with university researchers, and the smaller the company, the less likely collaboration.
The government’s 10-year target is to increase research and development funding to 2% of GDP. Investment in science in the latest budget is out of step with that goal.
Scientific knowledge is a critical driver for human health and wellbeing, economic development and environmental sustainability.
Lowering the tax rates on profits from patents registered in Australia is unlikely to increase local research and development. But it will be a gift for multinationals.
The federal government is right to focus on improving Australian universities’ success rate in commercialising research, but can take specific steps itself to help achieve this.
Government incentives might boost the numbers of collaborative research projects, but academics also must work on their relationships with industry practitioners to ensure everyone contributes fully.
The recent arrest of a Chinese-born scientist at MIT raises questions about the value of international science collaboration and its impact on the American innovation system.
Thanks to major science infrastructure, human resource training and education investment in African nations, the continent is well placed to lead from the front.
As well as extra funding for research beyond what has been announced in the budget for 2021, Australia must take half-a-dozen further steps to put the research sector back on a sound footing.
The early and mid-career researchers who bear most of the teaching and research workload are exhausted and underpaid. Many won’t survive the funding squeeze, but Australia can’t afford to lose them.
While there are various good reasons for doing research and funding research, the chief reason is that research provides essential insurance against catastrophic events.
Crowdsourcing is a promising approach to biomedical research and development (R&D) and could produce solutions to pandemics like this one.
A symposium celebrated a roadmap for the American scientific enterprise laid out 75 years ago. What should be included in a US research plan that would last through the rest of this century?
The US research funder is widely admired, but does the UK have the guts to start its own version?
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Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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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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Associate Professor, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Director of programmes, African Academy of Sciences
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Public Policy, ADFA Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Visiting Professor, Imperial College Business School, and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, TU Wien
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Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University
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Professor in Innovation and Associate Dean (Research), The University of Queensland
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
