The Australian Government's Innovation Report

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FIGURE 21: Percentage of innovating businesses in the economy as a percentage difference from the EU average 40 Percentage difference from the EU average 30 20 10 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 Germany Iceland Belgium Ireland Luxembourg Portugal Austria Denmark Netherlands Australia Finland Sweden France Italy Norway Spain United Kingdom Czech Republic Source: OECD. Data from 2001-2003. Internet Selling The final indicator is another new addition to the 2006 scorecard. As shown earlier, Australians are heavy users of the internet and Figure 22 provides an indication that many Australian firms are also good at utilising the commercial opportunities that the internet provides. In 2004, 19% of Australian businesses used the internet or web to sell goods and services. As shown in Figure 22 this ranks us 4 th out of 26 OECD countries and substantially (55%) above the average. FIGURE 22: Percentage of businesses using the internet to sell goods and services compared to the OECD average 150 Percentage difference from the OECD average 100 50 0 -50 -100 United Kingdom Denmark Sweden Australia Ireland Japan Germany Belgium Netherlands Switzerland Luxembourg Norway Iceland Austria Canada New Zealand Czech Republic Korea Hungary Slovak Republic Portugal Greece Poland Italy Spain Mexico Source: OECD. Data from 2004. Chapter 4 - Australian innovation scorecard 141
Conclusions The Australian Innovation Scorecard 2006 provides a snapshot of Australia’s innovation performance relative to other OECD economies. Being third in the series, it is also possible in some instances to look at Australia’s performance over time. Australia improved its performance between the 2004 and 2006 scorecards in nine of the 14 common indicators and decreased in five. Increases were spread over most of the categories of innovation covered by the scorecard with the greatest increases being in broadband subscribers and internet usage, two knowledge diffusion indicators, and in science graduates per 100 000 in the workforce aged 25-34, a human resources indicator. Substantial increases also occurred in the number of scientific and technical articles per million of the population and in both business and public R&D expenditures, all of which are knowledge creation indicators. There were also increases in the percentage of the labour force with tertiary education, number of researchers, both human resources indicators, and the breadth of international science and engineering collaboration, which is a collaboration indicator. Australia’s performance decreased in investment in new equipment and investment in ICT, two knowledge diffusion indicators, average annual multifactor productivity growth, an indicator of market outcomes and in investment in venture capital, a finance indicator. Over half of the 14 indicators improved in each of the scorecards since 2002. The most notable was broadband subscribers per one thousand of the population, which showed a substantial increase in both the 2004-2006 and the earlier 2002-2004 period. Compared to the OECD average in the 2006 scorecard, Australia ranked among the top 10 OECD countries in 12 out of the 18 indicators, performing above the average in 14 indicators and below in four. Australia performed well above the average in a number of areas, including investment in venture capital as a percentage of GDP, science and technical articles per million of the population, science graduates, broadband subscribers, innovating businesses with collaboration activity and businesses selling over the internet. Australia was below the average in four areas, most notably in the number of US patents per million of the population and innovation turnover as a percentage of sales. However, in some areas where Australia’s performance is below the OECD average, our performance relative to the OECD average and OECD ranking has improved in the 2006 scorecard compared to the 2004 scorecard. Overall, the Australian Innovation Scorecard 2006 shows that Australia’s innovation performance has been steadily improving in many areas and compares favourably with the OECD averages. This bodes well for Australia’s ability to capitalise on innovative people, processes and technologies. 142 Backing Australia’s Ability
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