Innovation
Australia has had a number of major innovations in the past. We still produce great research and come up with disruptive ideas. But as the rest of the world speeds ahead in the innovation sector, how can we keep up, and what can we learn from other countries to lift Australia’s performance? Most organisations would say that they want to be more innovative, but what does that mean?
For the next two months, we’ll discuss this in our featured forum. Innovation is a centrepiece of the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s agenda for Australia. Together with the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Christopher Pyne he announced a highly anticipated innovation statement in early December, where he called for an ‘ideas boom’ and revealed a funding package of almost $1.1 billion spread across multiple initiatives and programs.
We need more than good intentions to drive a cultural shift. Innovation starts at school. We know that for the jobs of the future we’ll need core skills like coding and data science, mathematics and statistics, but we also need to foster creative thinking and entrepreneurship. We need a generation of curious Australians who are willing to try new things, accept that they might fail and try again.
These are challenging and puzzling, but ultimately exciting times. Please contact Svetlana at sstankovic@openforum.com.au with your blog idea to share your thoughts with the Open Forum community.
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Ken Silburn
January 10, 2016 at 11:46 am
STEM Education Opportunites
Key comments. “Innovation starts at school” and “We need a generation of curious Australians who are willing to try new things, accept that they might fail and try again.” and for students that are willing (and allowed) to question and come up with their own solutions. The problem persists of how can our education system adapt to change. a change that not only incorporates new knowledge, but also a new way of teaching.
Programs that help teachers teach STEM: I am currently with 60 other like-minded teachers in Canberra, participating in the STEMX Academy, an initiative of the Australian Science Teachers Association. All teachers were selected by application to spend a week of the school holidays to collaborate and learn about STEM education from educational and science leaders. These are some of the new generation of teachers that are passionate about teaching and integrating STEM curriculum into the classroom.
Programs that help students participate in STEM: The iSTEM program currently running in Sydney gives students the opportunity to mix with other like-minded students to participate in science education activities on weekends and school holidays. More information at http://www.istem.com.au Also for the student keen on Space Science. There is the Teacher and Student US Space Academy and Field Studies Program (including a cultural visit to South Korea). http://www.spacecamp.com.au
tori
January 28, 2016 at 8:46 am
Technology Innovation
Technology innovation is the process through which new (or improved) technologies are developed and brought into widespread use. In the simplest formulation, innovation can be thought of as being composed of research, development, demonstration, and deployment, although it is abundantly clear that innovation is not a linear process – there are various interconnections and feedback loops between these stages, and often even the stages themselves cannot be trivially disaggregated. Innovation involves the involvement of a range of organizations and personnel (laboratories, firms, financing organizations, etc.), with different institutional arrangements underpinning the development and deployment of different kinds of technologies; contextual factors such as government policies also significantly shape the innovation process.
aabharan
March 17, 2016 at 6:03 am
How to collect funding for a technology innovation program
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noman
April 1, 2016 at 12:12 pm
Traffic Education
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mcshammertime
June 30, 2016 at 1:57 pm
Education
Today more than ever education is critical for the future of Australia.
The mining industry is done and not enough children are considering trades in alternative industries – we are bringing doctors and nurses in from overseas and not producing enough new ideas internally.
The retail industry for one is an area that needs focus, so many young minds could learn trades in graphic design, fashion design and marketing http://www.westbrothers.com.au
Hopefully Australia will put more focus into areas that are deserving like the streetwear clothing industry, far too many dollars are spent importing when focus could be spent on internal growth!