PARTNERS IN THE FUTURE Victorian strategies for science, technology and innovation collaboration Jan

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PARTNERS IN THE FUTURE Victorian strategies for
science, technology and innovation
collaborationJane Niall, Deputy
Secretary Business Development Department of
Innovation, Industry and Regional Development,
Victoria
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• Victorias challenges
• Increased competition driven by globalisation
• Water shortages
• Cutting carbon emissions and growing energy
  demand
• Biosecurity
• Aging population
• Economy moving from manufacturing to services
• Small resources export base

Melbourne Victoria
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• Collaboration drives innovation outcomes
• Need to access new ideas, technologies and
  processes
• Increasing complexity and scale of
  leading-edge research
• Expanding technological scope and achieving
  critical mass
• Sharing costs and minimising risks
• Building business and market opportunity
  alliances

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• Victorias Innovation Agenda
• A 1.8 billion commitment to making Victoria a
  strong research partner by
• attracting and retaining our best and brightest
• investing in science infrastructure
• supporting industry uptake of new technologies

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The Australian Synchrotron

• Australias biggest RD infrastructure
  investment for a generation
• First ever national partnership to fund RD
  infrastructure
• International machine and science advisory
  committees
• MOUs with international synchrotrons including
  the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
• Collaborative operating policy

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Energy Technology Innovation Strategy Large
Scale Demonstration Projects

• Solar Systems worlds largest Solar
  Photovoltaic Power Station
• International Power Hazelwood worlds first
  plant to achieve 100 dried brown coal
  combustion
• HRL Integrated Drying, Gasification and
  Combined Cycle
• Total investment over 1.5 billion
• CO2 emissions cut by 2.4 million tonnes
  annually

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Biomedical Research Institutes

• Turning Victorias research strengths into a
  world leading life sciences industry
• Encouraging collaboration, amalgamation and
  co-location to build critical mass
• 550m in Government funding more than
  matched by Commonwealth, host organisations
  and philanthropic sector
• Developing new RD capital funding models to
  stimulate more private sector investment

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Victorias research partnership strengths

• Major RD infrastructure investments coming on
  line
• Critical mass of research institutes
• Attracting and retaining more of our best and
  brightest
• National leader in developing new collaborative
  models
• recognised internationally as a valuable
  partner in strategic sectors like life
  sciences.