Australia: Investing in Innovation

Investing in Health Innovation: A Cornerstone to Achieving Global Health Convergence

In December 2013, the Commission on Investing in Health—a group of 25 economists and global health experts chaired by former United States Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and health economist Dean Jamison—published its report, called “Global Health 2035” [1]. The report set out an ambitious investment framework for achieving what the authors called a “grand convergence in global health” by ...

Investing in innovation to enable global competitiveness: The case of Portugal

Article history: Received 10 January 2011 Received in revised form 23 March 2011 Accepted 4 April 2011 Available online 12 May 2011 The concept of leveraged innovation to create wealth within regions, countries and economies is not a new concept. Competitiveness of regions in the increasingly global economy now requires not only that innovation be present within a regional economy, but also tha...

Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of South Australia

This year sees the 10 Anniversary of the University of South Australia (UniSA), formed in 1991 by the amalgamation of two institutions: the South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE). The SAIT had a tradition of vocational and professional preparation for business, science and engineering. The SACAE had emerged from the success...

Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis – Investing in Innovation for Long Term Economic Growth

The current crisis is the first of this severity to hit the 30 OECD member countries since they shifted to knowledge-based economies where investment in intangible assets is or equal importance as investment in machinery, equipment and buildings. Innovation will be one of the keys to emerging from the current crisis, but it risks being it hard by the downturn. This is a major conclusion of a ne...

Investing in our Children