The Australian Government's Innovation Report

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Business R&D Business expenditure on R&D (BERD) is a measure of the private sector’s contribution to developing new knowledge and refining existing technologies for commercial outcomes. Australia had an expenditure of 0.94% of GDP in the 2006 scorecard, a significant increase from the 2004 scorecard, where the expenditure recorded was 0.89% of GDP. Figure 8 shows that Australia’s performance in this area is slightly below the OECD average, ranking 17 th in the OECD. Australia’s position relative to the OECD average has improved slightly since the 2004 scorecard, from 23% below the average to 18% below. FIGURE 8: Business expenditure on R&D as a percentage of GDP as a percentage difference from the OECD average 200 Percentage difference from the OECD average 150 100 50 0 -50 -100 Sweden Finland Japan Korea Switzerland United States Germany Denmark Luxembourg Iceland Austria France Belgium United Kingdom Canada Netherlands Australia Norway Czech Republic Ireland Spain Italy New Zealand Hungary Portugal Slovak Republic Greece Turkey Poland Mexico Source: OECD. Data from 2004 or latest available year. Australian data is for 2004-05 financial year. Human Resources Tertiary Education The proportion of the workforce with a tertiary education is an indicator of the comparative skill level of a nation’s labour force and provides an indication of the ability of the labour force to utilise and critically appraise new ideas and technologies. In the 2006 scorecard, 22% of the Australian labour force had a tertiary education, compared with 20% in the 2004 scorecard and 18% in the 2002 scorecard. The percentage increase between the 2006 and 2004 scorecard equates to 327 000 extra people in the labour force who hold tertiary qualifications. Figure 9 shows that Australia performs strongly in this area, ranking 8 th in the OECD, significantly above the average. Chapter 4 - Australian innovation scorecard 133
FIGURE 9: Percentage of the workforce with tertiary education compared to the OECD average 80 Percentage difference from the OECD average 60 40 20 0 -20 -40 -60 United States Norway Netherlands Denmark Iceland Canada Korea Australia Japan Sweden Spain Switzerland United Kingdom Ireland New Zealand Finland Hungary Poland Germany Greece Mexico France Belgium Luxembourg Portugal Czech Republic Slovak Republic Italy Austria Turkey Source: OECD. Data from 2004. Number of Researchers The number of researchers in the labour force is an indicator of the ability of the economy to generate and apply new knowledge. In the 2006 scorecard, Australia registered 80 researchers for every 10 000 people in the labour force. This is a significant increase from 74 researchers in the 2004 scorecard and the 67 researchers in the 2002 scorecard. Figure 10 shows that Australia ranks 8 th in the OECD and is above the average. FIGURE 10: Number of researchers per 10 000 labour force compared to the OECD average Percentage difference from the OECD average 150 100 50 0 -50 -100 Finland Iceland Sweden Japan United States Denmark Norway Australia New Zealand France Source: OECD. Data from 2004 or earliest available year. Belgium Luxembourg Germany Canada Korea Austria Switzerland Ireland United Kingdom Spain Netherlands Slovak Republic Portugal Hungary Poland Greece Czech Republic Italy Turkey Mexico Science Graduates 6 Figure 11 shows Australia performs well on the number of young science and engineering graduates in the workforce, ranking 3 rd and being substantially (64%) above the OECD average. In the 2006 scorecard, Australia has 2020 young science graduates employed for every 100 000 people in the workforce aged 25-34. This is an increase from the revised figure of 1942 graduates in the 2004 scorecard and is substantially higher than 2002 scorecard figure of 1303 graduates. 6 The methodology for the 2006 scorecard science graduates indicator returns to its original 2002 scorecard form, having been changed in the 2004 scorecard because the relevant data were not then available. The 2006 scorecard utilises the newly available data for science graduates employed aged 25-34 per 100 000 employed 25-34 year olds. 134 Backing Australia’s Ability
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2006 07 The Australian Government
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ISBN: 0 642 77 675x ISBN: 0 642 77
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Enhancing industrial R&D 44 R&D Tax
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PRIORITY 3 - FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES
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FRDC GDP GERD GGAP GOVERD GRDC HECS
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The year also saw significant outco
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The Australian Innovation Scorecard
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Table 1: Australian Government supp
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The Australian Government’s inves
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Sustaining funding for government r
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• Key to Australasian liverwort a
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Australian Institute of Marine Scie
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Coral gives new insight into changi
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Developing meaningful, long-term co
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In 2005-06, Geoscience Australia st
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The majority of research-related pu
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The successful proposals represent
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• improving the management of nat
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Food Innovation Grants Programme As
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Most facilities provide training pr
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Total funding for the ISL programme
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Improving research quality and acce
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PART 2 - Accelerating the commercia
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Pooled Development Funds The Pooled
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In 2005-06, $12.83 million was inve
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Table 9: Sectoral distribution of C
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Building on ICT strengths Advanced
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Other achievements included: • ge
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Building links to facilitate commer
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Taking a closer look at stem cells
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Biotechnology Australia Public Awar
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• commercialisation seminars for
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Page 143 and 144: Conclusions The Australian Innovati
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