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Universities don’t lack innovation, they just don’t share knowledge with one another effectively, the leader of a US network of universities has said. As a consequence, universities frequently double up on research, Bridget Burns said. Burns is executive director of the ...

The first Indigenous psychologist to graduate in Australia has been shortlisted for the 2015 Human Rights Medal – though she wants recently retired Aboriginal AFL star Adam Goodes to win the honour. National Mental Health Commissioner professor Pat Dudgeon, from ...

Research funds should be allocated based on commercialisation success as well as quality, the new chair of Innovation Australia has said. Speaking to Campus Review, Ferris reiterated the federal government’s message of establishing a more innovative nation. He said roughly ...

  Robots will get young people back on the farm, a University of Sydney roboticist has said. Australia’s agriculture sector is facing an ageing population and Australian Bureau of statistics figures show that since 1980, the number of people in ...

Torrens University Australia shouldn’t receive public funding, the Greens have argued. In legislation recently passed through Parliament , Torrens University Australia has been listed as a Table B provider – meaning it’s eligible for public research funding. The Greens attempted to ...

The federal government has launched a match-making website where companies can search all the intellectual property patents Australia’s universities and public research bodies hold. The assistant minister for innovation, Wyatt Roy, launched Source IP in late November. It was developed ...