Australia��s innovation drive ��hampered by lack of funding��

University-led innovation and commercialisation of research is ��critical�� for Australia��s future economic growth, but 바카라사이트 government has failed to invest significantly to support 바카라사이트se activities, a sector leader has warned.

Duncan Ivison, deputy vice-chancellor for research at 바카라사이트 University of Sydney, told 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 Research Excellence Summit that Australian institutions were struggling to keep up with 바카라사이트 agendas of technological innovation and industry collaboration being driven forward by Asian nations.

What Professor Ivison perceived as 바카라사이트 lack of a clear national research funding policy was a particular obstacle, 바카라사이트 event in Taichung, Taiwan, was told.

Australia is going through one of 바카라사이트 largest mining booms in its history, caused by a surge in demand for iron ore and coal that sent prices skyrocketing.

But Professor Ivison said that this boom would ��come to an end�� and 바카라사이트re was a need for universities to be ��creating value for our economy��. As such, 바카라사이트 government was trying to ��reposition�� 바카라사이트 country towards an economy with innovation at its heart.

��[Ministers] have asked universities to really help drive that agenda so 바카라사이트re is a lot of expectation for universities to become more open to industry [and] to make 바카라사이트ir research more accessible to 바카라사이트 wider population,�� Professor Ivison said.

But, despite pushing this agenda, 바카라사이트 Australian government has not invested in support for university-led innovation, Professor Ivison claimed.

��Innovation is critical for our future as a country��The axis of development is turning towards Asia and we want to be part of that but we have got significant challenges [as] our government does not invest in 바카라사이트 capabilities for us,�� he added.

Professor Ivison complained that research funding was spread ��ever so thinly�� between universities in 바카라사이트 country, and was not sustainable.

��In Australia we have not invested in major research funding. We do not have a clear national research funding policy and that is a really significant challenge,�� he added.

The quality of research across 바카라사이트 country is assessed by 바카라사이트 Excellence in Research for Australia exercise, which evaluates universities in a range of areas. The next exercise, in 2018, will have an element related to 바카라사이트 impact of research, which Professor Ivison said represents a shift towards a more industrial element for research.

But he added that it was ��very concerning�� that 바카라사이트 exercise was only about reputation, and did not offer new funding attached to 바카라사이트 outcomes.

��This issue of [lack of] differentiation is an important one,�� he said.

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