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Productivity

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

    The Finger and the Moon: measuring research impact by nesting abstractions in contexts

    Simple quantitative metrics don’t do justice to the breadth and complexity of human experience. Researchers and policymakers can benefit from frameworks implementing a nested relationship between data and lived experiences, metrics and relational processes.

    Juliet Bennett

  • Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan

    Travers McLeod

  • “Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution

    Libby Hackett

  • Australia’s innovation future: an agenda to transform our economy

    Roy Green

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  • New research shows that by considering the broader financial benefits of domestic manufacturing, building trains locally can be a fiscally smart decision.

    Is there a financial rationale for building trains locally?

    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

  • Making capital inclusive for all women

    Making capital inclusive for all women

    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

  • Future-proofing the Australian economy

    Future-proofing the Australian economy

    While Australia is doing well on full employment, it’s time to prepare for the next downturn by upgrading the economy’s recession-fighting toolkit.

    Zac Gross