SAF 09: Securing Australia’s Future. Translating research for economic and social benefit:country comparisons

Securing Australia’s Future SAF09: 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. Utilising country comparisons, this project will analyse international best practice approaches to encouraging and facilitating research translation, commercialisation and collaboration. This will include an analysis of measures to facilitate collaboration between researchers, businesses and other organisations, focusing on government strategies as well as industry, institutional and sectorial approaches. The resulting 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. “Fiddling at the margins of policy will not secure the economic transformation we need to keep pace, let alone compete in an ambitious world. Nations which do better than us are characterised by intelligent policies settings and programs which encourage a culture of innovation and collaboration.”