Securing Australia’s Future 2012 – 2016

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Skills and capabilities for Australian enterprise innovation

It is widely accepted that Australia needs an innovative, flexible and creative workforce with the capabilities to enable the country to maximise its opportunities.

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Securing Australia’s Future Program Review

ACOLA conducted a review to collate findings from each of the twelve SAF projects and combined these into a summary report. It also sought to create a book which examined the body of research conducted through the SAF program and drew out common themes that had emerged through each of the individual projects.

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Australia’s Diaspora Advantage: Realising the potential for building transnational business networks with Asia

As a dynamic economy in a rapidly developing region, Australia seeks to utilise all available resources to manage regional opportunities and risks for growth and stability. Focusing on the Chinese and Indian business diasporas in Australia, this project will explore the extent, diversity and nature of business diaspora linkages.

Review of Australia’s Research Training System

A review of Australia’s research training system, to ensure that it meets the country’s research needs in the 21st-century.

Translating research for economic and social benefit – Country comparisons

There is an identified urgent need for Australia to improve the application of outputs from its investment in publicly funded research. The report will make evidence-based findings about how current levels of translation, commercialisation and collaboration in Australia could be improved and examine how international models could be applied in Australia.

Australia’s Comparative Advantage

Establishing proper policy foundations, combined with public support and effective leadership, will better place Australia on a trajectory for national well-being.

Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility

This project will synthesize research on optimising the transport system for lower emissions within and between innovative urban infrastructures and will examine effective ways to counter the institutional and cultural obstacles to transformational change.

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Technology and Australia’s Future – New technologies and their role in our security, cultural, democratic, social and economic systems

This project will examine the risks and opportunities of a broad range of new and emerging technologies, and evaluate their transformative implications for Australia’s society, democracy, environment, security and trade.

Australia’s Agricultural Future

Agriculture is an important part of the Australian economy and an area of significant comparative advantage. Optimising production whilst maintaining our unique capacity and reputation both nationally and internationally is the critical challenge that will be explored by this study.

Smart engagement with Asia: Leveraging language, research and culture

The depth of Australia’s linguistic and inter-cultural competence will be a determining factor in the future success of developments in innovation, science and technology, research capacity, international mobility, trade relations and economic competitiveness.

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Securing Australia’s Future 2012 – 2016