Visiting Professor University at Technology Sydney, Executive Director, Acton Institute for Policy Research and Innovation
This report compares the institutional settings of research systems in Canada, Germany, Israel, the USA, and the UK. Australia's research system is heavily influenced by the higher education system, with higher education research increasing while business investment in R&D has been falling. Australia, Canada, and the UK have had higher education expenditures in the national R&D effort in the 25-35% range. These countries inherited the British system of cabinet government and individual Ministerial responsibility. The approach to public research funding in these countries is an aggregative "bottom-up" style, with no long-term national research strategy and low R&D to GDP proportions. In Germany, Israel, and the USA, higher education contribution to national R&D is much less, in the 10-20% range, and a much greater proportion of public research—research institutes and national laboratories. These countries reflect different public administration traditions and have a national research foundation that takes a cross-government approach to public R&D investment. Based on the study, the report argues for new institutional forms, including additional research funding councils and a national research foundation. https://wix.to/ggCrwkU #newblogpost
Ian Dennis
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There is also significant r&d in industry, especially in IT, ( especially software). In Australia, such research annual expenditure has historically dwarfed both University and research institute expenditures on IT.
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5moWorth considering where Singapore (and India) fits into this situation given the historical baggage of British adminstration?