The Australian Government's Innovation Report

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Broadband Subscribers A new indicator introduced in the 2006 scorecard is the number of broadband subscribers per one thousand of the population. As ever increasing amounts of sophisticated economic and social activity occurs on the worldwide web, the speed at which businesses and consumers can connect and do business is becoming more important. Figure 15 shows that, using 2006 data, Australia is above (12%) the OECD average for broadband subscribers, ranking 17 th in the OECD. The number of broadband subscribers has displayed the highest growth of all the indicators in this scorecard. In 2006 Australia had 174 broadband subscribers per one thousand population, which is substantially up from 77 in 2004 and 35 subscribers per one thousand population in year 2003. This trend suggests that Australia is rapidly improving its position to take advantage of new commercial opportunities online. FIGURE 15: Broadband subscribers per 1000 population compared to the OECD average 100 Percentage difference from the OECD average 80 60 40 20 0 -20 -40 -60 -80 -100 Denmark Netherlands Iceland Korea Swizterland Finland Norway Sweden Canada United Kingdom Belgium United States Japan Luzembourg Austria France Australia Germany Spain Italy Portugal New Zealand Czech Republic Ireland Hungary Poland Turkey Slovak Republic Mexico Greece Source: OECD. Data from 2006 Investment in Machinery and Equipment The extent of investment in new machinery and equipment provides an indication of the ability of the economy to take advantage of innovations embodied in that machinery and equipment. In the 2006 scorecard, Australia’s level of investment in new equipment was 7.8% of GDP. This was above the OECD average and ranks Australia 12 th . Chapter 4 - Australian innovation scorecard 137
FIGURE 16: Investment in new equipment as a percentage of GDP compared to the OECD average 100 Percentage difference from the OECD average 80 60 40 20 0 -20 -40 -60 Slovak Republic Czech Republic Greece Switzerland Hungary Korea Japan New Zealand Italy Mexico Austria Australia Denmark Portugal Poland Germany Sweden Spain Canada Iceland United States United Kingdom Netherlands Luxembourg Norway France Finland Ireland Source: OECD. Data from 2004. Collaboration Collaboration Activity of Innovators Collaboration has become an important strategy for innovation success in some instances because it allows firms to pool their economic and knowledge resources. The ABS innovation survey, mentioned earlier, has allowed a new collaboration measure to be included in the 2006 scoreboard. Figure 17 shows the percentage of innovating businesses (those which have introduced new or significantly improved goods, services or processes) that also have engaged in collaboration activity. Australia ranked 6 th out of the 16 European countries where comparable data were available and significantly (55%) above the average. FIGURE 17: Percentage of innovating businesses with collaboration activity as a percentage difference from the EU average 200 Percentage difference from the EU average 150 100 50 0 -50 -100 Finland Norway Denmark Luxembourg Sweden Australia France Iceland Netherlands Greece Belgium Austria Germany Portugal Spain Italy Source: ABS and EuroStat. Australian Data is from 2003, European countries Data from 1998-2000. 138 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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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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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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Food Innovation Grants Programme As
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Building links to facilitate commer
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Advancing SET skills Audit of Scien
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