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Why the British steel crisis needs strategic government intervention to give the industry a chance of survival.
Between 50-75% of all collaborations fail. Here are some tips on how to set up a successful collaboration between academia and industry.
Managing the decline of the steel industry is no easy task. So what are the options?
From making renewable energy practical to revolutionising farming, the chemicals industry could make a huge contribution to the environment.
The innovation report fails to mention the risk of bias for researchers collaborating with industry. We must ensure that researchers maintain their independence.
Publicly-funded research should contribute to society in some way. But we need to think carefully about how we create a system that allows us to measure the impact of research.
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.
A government for the 21st century needs to work out how we can grow our food, manufacture goods and dispose of waste without making such a huge mess.
Farmers’ protests against the big supermarkets demonstrates the importance of good supply chain management.
GE’s push into finance nearly crippled the company, just as the broader US shift in that direction almost collapsed the global economy.
Since the heady talk of a “march of the makers” in 2011, UK industrial policy has been patchy at best. No wonder the trade deficit is at its widest ever.
Engineering has been a British success story. But its future is in doubt unless the country can educate, recruit and retain many more female engineers. The sector has survived, even thrived, by importing…
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane this month suggested that the funding of research grants to universities should be decided on the basis of the number of patents generated rather than the number of academic…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report tells us that CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise and that, unchecked, climate change will likely…
Within a few months of coming to office the Abbott government established a Vocational and Education and Training (VET) Reform Taskforce. Over the past two years there have been three separate parliamentary…
The debate about the future of Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) has largely focused on the issue of immediate costs to business. But if we’re thinking about Australia’s long-term economic interests…
Long-held beliefs that Australia is “lucky” to have access to an abundance of coal are misnomers. Government spruiks employment…
Australia’s economic future lies underneath our feet. The island continent is blessed with a variety of natural resources but none as plentiful or important as iron ore. Iron is a common element in soils…
The purchase of 43 farms in northern NSW by a state-controlled Chinese mining company has prompted calls this week for tougher restrictions on foreign investment. Greens leader Bob Brown, independent Senator…
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Professor of Geophysics, Durham University
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PhD Candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Director, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, Melbourne CSHE, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Science, Australian National University
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Education Lecturer and Researcher, Monash University
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Chair in Sustainable Enterprise, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
