On 12 May 2009, the Australian Government released its innovation policy agenda to 2020.
Powering Ideas: an innovation agenda for the 21st century
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Information on elements of the agenda were included in the 2009-10 Budget announcements.
The report of the Review, Venturous Australia - building strength in innovation, and associated materials, can be accessed below.
Report on the Review of the National Innovation System
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.
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
Comments on the Review of the Cooperative Research Centres Program can be found here.
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.
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Annex CRC (105KB) (the executive summary and the recommendations from the review of the CRC Program)
Media Centre
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A copy of Minister Carr's press release regarding the release of venturousaustralia is available here.
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A transcript of the media conference to release venturousaustralia is available here.
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A copy of Minister Carr's speech to the Committee for Melbourne 'Review of the National Innovation System Report - Venturous Australia' is available here.
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A copy of Minister Emerson's press release regarding the release of venturousaustralia is available here.
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A copy of Dr Cutler's press release regarding the release of venturousaustralia is available here.
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A copy of the Minister's press release regarding the release of Collaborating to a purpose is available here.
Additional Materials
Submissions to the Review will continue to be made available, and can be accessed below.
A Call for Submissions (336KB) (the submission issues paper)
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.
An analysis of submissions to the Review undertaken by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
An Innovative View of Innovation
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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
For enquiries regarding the Review please email the Secretariat.