Innovation Policy Agenda to 2020 

On 12 May 2009, the Australian Government released its innovation policy agenda to 2020.

Powering Ideas: an innovation agenda for the 21st century

Powering Ideas: an innovation agenda for the 21st century  - Full Report	PDF version 1 MB	RTF version 377 KB
Powering Ideas: an innovation agenda for the 21st century  - Executive Summary	PDF version 186 KB	RTF version 69 KB

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Information on elements of the agenda were included in the 2009-10 Budget announcements.  

Report on the Review of the National Innovation System

The report of the Review, Venturous Australia - building strength in innovation, and associated materials, can be accessed below.

Venturous Australia - building strength in innovation	pdf version (3MB)	rtf version (1.7MB)
Report overview and recommendations	pdf version (1MB)	rft version (281KB)

At the request of the Chair of the Expert Panel, Venturous Australia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License. Disclaimer

Individual chapters can be downloaded below.

Overview	pdf version (436KB)	rtf version (80KB)
Chapter 1 - stalling not sprinting	pdf version (434KB)	rtf version (89KB)
Chapter 2 - the national innovation system	pdf version (566KB)	rtf version (82KB)
Chapter 3 - innovation in business	pdf version (230KB)	rtf version (91KB)
Chapter 4 - the case for a public role in innovation	pdf version (191KB)	rtf version (54KB)
Chapter 5 - strengthening people and skills	pdf version (259KB)	rtf version (133KB)
Chapter 6 - building excellence in national research	pdf version (331KB)	rtf version (124KB)
Chapter 7 - information and market design	pdf version (244KB)	rtf version (125KB)
Chapter 8 - tax and innovation	pdf version (256KB)	rtf version (88KB)
Chapter 9 - market facing programs	pdf version (424KB)	rtf version (107KB)
Chapter 10 - innovation in government	pdf version (350KB)	rtf version (97KB)
Chapter 11 - national priorities for innovation (191KB)	pdf version (191KB)	rtf version (51KB)
Chapter 12 - governance of the innovation system	pdf version (344KB)	rtf version (124KB)
Recommendations	pdf version (224KB)	rtf version (202KB)
Appendix	pdf version (217KB)	rtf version (199KB)
Glossary	pdf version (109KB)	rtf version (82KB)

Review of the Cooperative Research Centres Program
As part of the review process, a separate review of the Cooperative Research Centres was undertaken. The report from that Review - Collaborating to a purpose - is available below. 

 Collaborating to a purpose (1.1MB) - Print Friendly version
 Collaborating to a purpose - (1 MB) - HTML version

Annexes
These annexes provide further information in support of some chapters in the main report. The number of the annex reflects the report chapter to which the additional information applies.

•  Annex 4 (151KB)
•  Annex 6 (130KB)
•  Annex 8 (61KB)
•  Annex 9 (1MB)
•  Annex 11 (42KB)
•  Annex 12 (393KB)
•  Annex CRC (105KB) (the executive summary and the recommendations from the review of the CRC Program)

 
Additional Materials

A content analysis undertaken by Prof. Mark Dodgson of the University of Queensland, using Leximancer software to identify the main themes, concepts and ideas identified in submissions to the Review.

• Leximancer analysis (231KB)

An analysis of submissions to the Review undertaken by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

• Submissions analysis (199KB)

An Innovative View of Innovation

Sometimes pictures and cartoon commentary gives us novel and  challenging insights.  Melbourne cartoonist, FirstDogontheMoon, provides his  perspective on innovation in the innovation cartoon gallery.

Contact the Review Secretariat