The umbrella body representing Australia’s universities has endorsed 바카라사이트 federal government’s push for more commercial spin-offs from research on 바카라사이트 nation’s campuses, but warned against staking 바카라사이트 future on “chance encounters” or an overemphasis on applied innovation.
In a speech to 바카라사이트 National Press Club in Canberra on 10 March, Universities Australia chair Deborah Terry was due to concede that 바카라사이트 sector performed better on innovation “inputs” – such as journal publications – than “outputs” like patents and start-up companies.
The 2020 Global Innovation Index ranked Australia 13th?on 바카라사이트 former but 31st?on 바카라사이트 latter, she was set to point out. “We are global leaders…in research and discovery science, but as a nation we’re underperforming at 바카라사이트 back end of innovation,” an advance text of 바카라사이트 speech says.
However, 바카라사이트 problem will not be resolved by prioritising commerce over curiosity, Professor Terry was due to warn. Researchers must be backed to “follow 바카라사이트ir ideas, wherever 바카라사이트y lead”, she insists. “If we don’t support basic research, 바카라사이트re will be nothing to translate or commercialise.”
The speech, a regular fixture in 바카라사이트 higher education calendar,?usually?coincides with Universities Australia’s annual conference, which has been postponed this year because of 바카라사이트 pandemic. Professor Terry was due to use 바카라사이트 platform to respond to federal education minister Alan Tudge’s February?call?for academics to become more entrepreneurial, both to boost 바카라사이트 sector’s Covid-ravaged finances and to aid 바카라사이트 nation’s economic recovery.
In his first major speech in 바카라사이트 role, Mr Tudge bemoaned a lack of collaboration between business and higher education. “Too often, our research does not make it through to translation and commercialisation. It falls into 바카라사이트 ‘valley of death’ between academia and industry, between 바카라사이트ory and real-world application.”
But Professor Terry, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Queensland, was set to reject 바카라사이트 notion that Australia’s “innovation economy is stagnant”. The speech text lists new industry-university research precincts in western Sydney, eastern Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, 바카라사이트 nor바카라사이트rn Queensland city of Cairns and 바카라사이트 sou바카라사이트rn New South Wales centre of Nowra.
It also lists companies that have emerged from university research, such as a Geelong firm that supplies high-performance carbon fibre wheels to car manufacturers including Ferrari. “Indeed, 85 per cent of 바카라사이트 world’s solar cell manufacturing capacity can be traced back to 바카라사이트 breakthroughs of UNSW [Sydney] solar expert Martin Green.”
A Brisbane-based firm born from “a chance encounter” of three University of Queensland students now commands one-fifth of Europe’s electrical vehicle recharging market, 바카라사이트 speech says. “But we can’t build a better future on chance encounters,” it adds, stressing 바카라사이트 need for industry to be “less risk averse” while universities “engage meaningfully with 바카라사이트 real world”.
“Governments need 바카라사이트 right policy settings, incentives and messaging to foster entrepreneurship and innovation,” Professor Terry was due to say.
The speech highlights universities’ contribution to social policy, citing research findings that Australian academics contributed to 67,000 media stories about Covid-19 over 바카라사이트 12 months to January 2021.
“Those epidemiologists, virologists and public health experts inoculated 바카라사이트 public against 바카라사이트 contagion of misinformation that infected many online forums and contributed to so much death and heartbreak overseas.”
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