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Title: SO WHAT DID IT MEAN


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SO WHAT DID IT MEAN?
  • and
  • WHERE TO NOW?
  • Professor Ron Johnston
  • Australian Centre for Innovation

2
Quotable Quotes
  • There is a difference between events and ongoing
    dialogue (Mazzocchi)
  • Technological innovation creates the jobs of
    tomorrow, and research creates those of the day
    after tomorrow (Volpicelli)
  • Discussion is dominated by the Einsteins- Albert
    and Frank (Longstaff)
  • Scientists are people too (comment from the
    audience)

3
Quotable Quotes (continued)
  • Think big, start small, scale fast (Nicolais)
  • There is a big problem with international myopia
    (Cowan)
  • Science is changing (Tegart, Batterham,
    Patermann, Newman, etc)

4
  • Science is changing driven by global knowledge
    economy
  • Mode 1 ? Mode 2
  • Disciplinary science ? Integrated science
  • Public knowledge ? Private IP
  • Sustainable, in the community

5
The Problems are the Same
  • Competition
  • Scale - critical mass
  • Fragmentation
  • Engagement of industry
  • Complementarities (e.g. water, fire, carbon
    accounting)
  • Competition for skills
  • BUT

6
Networking an essential component of Research
  • Benefits knowledge, learning, infrastructure,
    excellence, leverage
  • Costs time, management, communication

7
EU Model
  • Vision driven
  • Targeted 3 GERD
  • 700,000 researchers
  • Evolving with each FP
  • From opportunitistic to strategic
  • Learning from participants

8
Australian Model
  • Non - systemic
  • BAA first step
  • Linkages
  • Commercialisation
  • Priorities but how implemented?
  • Networks
  • Batterham 4 excellence, collaboration,
    colliding disciplines, commercialisation

9
Australian EU Collaboration
  • Growing
  • FP4 34 projects
  • FP5 46 projects
  • FP6 130 proposals
  • But small 1 of international collaboration
  • Strong bilateral FEAST France, ARIA
  • Big issue brain mobility e.g. DAAD, EU targets

10
Lessons for Australian Science Policy
  • Science is changing but our policies and
    instruments are Mode 1
  • User driven
  • Stakeholder engaged
  • Outcome focused
  • Strategic
  • Funding
  • Bilateral bottom up
  • Collaboration with EU is strategic rapid
    response
  • Strategy for a 2 in the GKE

11
The FEAST Futures
  • Worthy working model focusing device
  • Broader agenda?
  • Properly funded from Australia GRAs, ARC, NHMRC
  • Embedded rather than special
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