
Securing Australia''s Future
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- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue
- Preface
- Introduction
- An evidence-based approach to informing policy
- Securing Australia's future
- Golden threads
- Interdisciplinary research topics
- The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA)
- 1. Australia's strengths - and a plan for a secure future
- Introduction
- Addressing the fundamentals
- Policy directions
- Opportunities for sectors of the economy
- An innovative workforce
- Protecting our environment
- Conclusion
- 2. Engagement with Asia: time to be smarter
- Introduction
- Smart engagement: identifying the opportunities
- Tapping into the market while avoiding the risks
- Teaming with our neighbours
- Better business
- Conclusion
- 3. Boosting productivity with innovation and new technologies
- Introduction
- Investing in ourselves
- Transforming research into value
- Innovation requires skilled labour and collaboration across disciplines
- Tinkering, failing and adapting: working with new technology
- Conclusion
- 4. Recharging education to power the nation
- Introduction
- Achieving an innovative, flexible and creative workforce
- Science, technology, engineering and mathematics education: a national report card
- Encouraging and improving STEM teaching
- Too few women in STEM
- Lifting Indigenous engagement in STEM
- Partnering and enriching
- National STEM coordination
- Lessons for Australia and STEM
- Findings for the future
- Engaging with the world
- Conclusion
- 5. Green and clean: securing a sustainable future
- Introduction
- Environment and energy
- Cities and mobility
- Collaborative research for sustainability
- Preparing for the future
- Conclusion
- 6. Conclusion: challenges and opportunities for Australia
- Advice for an unknowable future
- Past performance ? future success
- Smart farming, smart engagement
- Educating the future workforce
- Exporting knowledge
- Securing Australia's environment
- Taking it home: key messages
- Segue: Securing Australia's Future compendium
- Appendix 1. Australia's Comparative Advantage
- Appendix 2. STEM: Country Comparisons: International Comparisons of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education
- Appendix 3. Smart Engagement with Asia: Leveraging Language, Research and Culture
- Appendix 4. The Role of Science, Research and Technology in Lifting Australian Productivity
- Appendix 5. Technology and Australia's Future: New Technologies and their Role in Australia's Security, Cultural, Democratic, Social and Economic Systems
- Appendix 6. Engineering Energy: Unconventional Gas Production
- Appendix 7. Australia's Agricultural Future
- Appendix 8. Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility
- Appendix 9. Translating Research for Economic and Social Benefit: Country Comparisons
- Appendix 10. Skills and Capabilities for Australian Enterprise Innovation
- Appendix 11. Australia's Diaspora Advantage: Realising the Potential for Building Transnational Business Networks with Asia
- Index
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