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Focusing Australia’s Publicly Funded Research 

The department has completed the Focusing Australia’s Publicly Funded Research Review. The review was undertaken from February to July 2011 inclusive and examined a number of issues in regards to the nature and utility of Australia’s publicly funded research arrangements, with a particular focus on priority-setting. It addressed the following issues:

  • The roles of publicly funded research agencies to ensure they do not unnecessarily overlap with each other and/or other sectors in the research system
  • The appropriateness of the current level and balance of public funding for different types of research
  • The utility of the current public funding arrangements including the role of the National Research Priorities in meeting national priorities and needs
  • The value of a long-term strategy to provide collaborative research infrastructure
  • Options to develop performance measures to evaluate publicly funded research programs.

The outcomes of the review were announced by the Australian Government, 3 November 2011.

Maximising the Innovation Dividend: Review Key Findings and Future Directions

The Maximising the Innovation Dividend: Review Key Findings and Future Directions report [PDF 655KB] [DOC 1.05MB] sets out the review key findings and the recommendations, which have been accepted by the Australian Government.

The review recommended:

  1. Establishment of an Australian Research Committee
  2. Refreshing the National Research Priorities
  3. A feasibility study on research impact assessment
  4. Encouraging collaboration between universities and the end-users of research. 

Supporting documents

Other documents that were prepared as part of the review process:

The background and Terms of Reference for the review process are available.