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Bench-to-boardroom scientists key to seize future
Australia’s governments, industry, and research community have a legacy-defining opportunity to seize the future by boosting research commercialisation with a new breed of ‘bench-to-boardroom scientists’.
In its submission to the Government’s University Research Commercialisation consultation, Science & Technology Australia says Australia can and must do more to commercialise world-leading research more consistently and at a far greater scale.
But to get there will require strategic investment and developing the specialised skills to train more Australian researchers to be ‘bench-to-boardroom scientists’ and ‘connectors of commercialisation’.
Up to 2000 top researchers Australia-wide should be trained for specialist roles to propel the translation of promising technologies and become linchpins liaising between industry and university research.
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Robyn Williams: Have you heard about the big fish in our oceans? 90% are now gone. We ve wiped them out, using weapons of war.
Those were the words of Dr Daniel Pauly, the professor who lectured Dr Twiggy Forrest. And more on them in this
Science Show which also goes to Russia, and gives you a romantic musical St Valentine s Day.
First, meet our new Chief Scientist and her take on new jobs coming from research.
Cathy Foley: Jennifer Westacott from the Business Council of Australia is saying that Australia needs to have about five new industries. If you think about what are those new industries, well, you ll see; synthetic biology, quantum industries, hydrogen and vaccine mRNA-type manufacture. There s a whole range of things.
Scott Ryan of a “incident” captured by CCTV footage taken on the night
Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in March 2019, but says he only knew it involved a security breach, not an alleged crime.
As
news.com.au recounts, CCTV tracked Higgins’ and her alleged assailant’s movements on the night in question, and was the subject of negotiations between the AFP and parliamentary officers, who did not want it released without agreement.
7.30’s
Leigh Sales noted that Ryan asked the inspector general of intelligence and security to examine the CCTV footage in June 2020; as
Crikeyexplained in our list of unanswered questions over the government’s response, the senate president says he was told of “an incident” the week after it allegedly happened, then full details on Friday, February 12, ahead of
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Australia’s Chief Scientist to speak at Science meets Parliament
We are excited to announce that Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM will give the National Press Club Address on 17 March – as the centrepiece of this year’s Science meets Parliament.
In her first major speech as Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Foley will lay out her ambitious agenda for her term – so register now for SmP.
Dr Foley started her term as Australia’s ninth Chief Scientist in January 2021. She comes to the role from a lengthy career in CSIRO – most recently serving as Chief Scientist for the national science agency.