Our latest Insight explores the integration challenge facing urban planners and policymakers. It addresses how cities can integrate placemaking, economics, governance & commercial strategy for real results. : #SmartCities #EconomicDevelopment.

While efficient food production remains important, policy must also address consumer and market demand. Design thinking will allow culture, creativity, and community to thrive and ultimately define Australia's food future.: #FoodForThought #CulturalEconomy.

Software isn't just tech. It's the invisible infrastructure of the 🇦🇺 economy—powering everything from mining to medicine. It is now critical infrastructure, not an afterthought. #DigitalInfrastructure #SovereignCapability #InnovationPolicy #AIandSoftware

Fintech. Quantum. AI. These sectors don’t fit neatly into ANZSIC’s 20th-century boxes. Our new Insight makes the case for smarter industry classification to unlock investment, growth, and innovation! #Economy #IndustryClassifications #PolicyInnovation.

RT @renuagarwal21: @drjohnhoward @ProfRoyGreen Very apt John and Roy especially services productivity declining. Indeed a more mature inno….

Australia's productivity crisis: 1.1% annual growth (half the 1990s pace); Services productivity declining; Innovation inputs high, outcomes low.This isn't temporary. It's structural. Five questions on what needs to change. 🔗 #AustraliaEconomy #Innovation.

Australia's 2025 election opened a rare window for innovation reform. Jane O'Dwyer outlines how to turn our research excellence into economic success. We have the capability and maybe the politics. Now we need the will: #Productivity #futuremadeinaustralia.

Innovation Insight: Activating Common Knowledge for Better Innovation Policy Outcomes. We measure patents, celebrate unicorns, and track investment flows. But we systematically overlook the knowledge that actually enables innovation to scale and endure.

Why has Australia reorganised its industry portfolio 20+ times since 1963?.“The Restless Portfolio” from the Acton Institute exposes the cost of bureaucratic churn on innovation, capability, and strategy: # IndustrialStrategy #InnovationPolicy #PublicAmin.

More rhetoric, funding, or symbolic initiatives cannot overcome Australia's chronic innovation policy malaise. What is required is a return to fundamentals—willingness to clarify problems, assign responsibility, and build capability for long-term reform

A new minister, a carefully set scene—what’s next for Australia’s innovation policy? John H Howard unpacks the signals in Senator Ayres’s first speech for policy insiders and observers

How do #InnovationEcosystems create real economic & public value? And how can we measure it? This Policy Insight from the Acton Institute argues that productivity must be the core rationale:#InnovationEcosystems #PublicValue #Productivity #InnovationPolicy.

When public policy becomes political theatre, what’s lost? This Insight from the Acton Institute explores how media and commentary have reshaped public administration—and why technical competence and trust are now at risk #PublicAdministration #Politics.

Australia’s Second Albanese Ministry appears built for delivery—clear portfolios, capable Ministers, and solid admin structures. However, the reform ambition in research, innovation, and productivity seems to be missing. #Albanese #Innovation #PolicyReform.

The wrong framing, not a lack of tools, paralyses policy today. This Insight explores how governments get stuck in a maze of complexity, fragmented mandates, and symbolic announcements that substitute for strategy. #PolicyChallenges #Governance #PolicyMaze.

Australia's Future Made in Australia strategy must recognise Computer and Information Services as essential national infrastructure. Australia must not overlook the digital foundation in building our manufacturing future. #Australia #DigitalTransformation.

Despite decades of consensus that Australia must diversify beyond resource dependence, policy action repeatedly stalls. This Insight unpacks this paradox as a slow-moving crisis—a systemic drift that erodes capability, legitimacy, and future prosperity.

In this latest Innovation Insight Professor Mark Dodgson explores how recent trends in politics, technology, and business are undermining the long-held virtues of innovation—and what governments, firms, and individuals must do to fight back: #Innovation.

Evidence matters—but so does wisdom. Explore how research and innovation policy can blend empirical rigour with broader interdisciplinary insights to tackle complex challenges more holistically. #InnovationPolicy #EvidenceBasedPolicy #ThoughtLeadership.

Crises spark opportunity: Mission-oriented innovation policy leverages disruption to drive real change. Bold narratives and global engagement can reshape policy, like powering the EU Green Deal, tackling SDGs, & responding to financial crises. #Innovation.