The Australian Innovation System Report 2010, is the first of a new annual series of reports on the performance of Australia’s national innovation system and builds on the commitment by the Australian Government in Powering Ideas: An Innovation Agenda for the 21st Century to produce an annual report on innovation.
The Report outlines:
- metrics and baseline indicators which compare Australia’s innovation performance to other OECD countries and tracks progress against the Government’s innovation priorities and targets – these metrics are presented under the four policy themes identified in Powering Ideas: skills and research capacity, business innovation, links and collaboration and public sector innovation;
- features and trends of the Australian innovation system and performance as a whole, including Australia’s performance on Gross Expenditure on Research and Development (GERD), investment in knowledge, proportion of innovating businesses, collaboration and networking, skills used and shortages and trends in Multi-Factor Productivity (MFP) growth; and
- actions, achievements, and forward plans of various participants in the national innovation system, including governments, public sector researchers, and industry.
The Australian Innovation System Report 2010 can be downloaded in full by PDF (3,855KB) or by RTF (1,715KB). This version replaces the report published on 19 April 2010 and features revisions to: Chart 12; the PhD graduation rate indicator (presented in Table 5); and associated text and tables. Text related to Chart 6 has also been clarified.
Individual chapters are available:
For more information please contact:
Dr. Nick Yazidjoglou
Manager
Collaboration Research
Telephone: +61 2 6276 1739
Email: InnovationReport@innovation.gov.au