Project Description

Return to challenges

Productivity

How can Australia develop a productive and resilient economy through innovation, greater industrial capacity and upskilling?

  • While the political and policy focus has rightly been on regulating artificial intelligence, we also need to plan now to harness AI’s power as a policymaking tool – especially, its capacity to model outcomes in complex systems.

    José-Miguel Bello y Villarino

  • Nelson Ma, David Brown

  • Travers McLeod

  • Libby Hackett

More articles

  • While fiscal stimulus applied during the COVID-19 crisis has boosted employment, the much bigger challenge remains productivity and wage stagnation. This will require an ambitious national reform agenda to transform Australian industry.

    Roy Green

  • New research shows that by taking into account the broader financial benefits of domestic manufacturing, building key transport infrastructure locally can be the fiscally smart decision.

    Christopher Day

  • We should reimagine how capital markets can better back women entrepreneurs, especially those at society’s margins, and boost women’s economic security more broadly. The design of a new venture capital fund announced by the NSW Government can demonstrate what’s possible.

    Vafa Ghazavi