• Rethinking risk in innovation

    Jason Van der Schyff     |      July 13, 2025

    Innovation policy is often built around optimism. But in a world of live contest across the economy, the environment and the broader geostrategic landscape, progress cannot afford to wait for perfection.

  • Lost in translation

    Jason Van der Schyff     |      July 3, 2025

    Even when Australia produces world-class research and breakthrough technologies, we routinely fail to translate those into sovereign capability. It’s not a discovery gap. It’s a deployment one.

  • Innovate or die

    Jason Van der Schyff     |      June 29, 2025

    Australia’s long-standing “innovation gap” threatens our national safety as well as economic prosperity.

  • Australia can help close the Pacific’s digital divide

    Jason Van der Schyff     |      June 14, 2023

    The Australian government is looking to redouble its diplomatic efforts in the Pacific and the provision of digital infrastructure is an obvious way to make a big impact quickly.