The Department of Industry of the Australian Government joins the SPINTAN project

The research collaboration will provide Australian data to the SPINTAN database

A research team of the Department of Industry of the Australian Government has joined the SPINTAN project to generate and thereby contribute Australian data to the SPINTAN database. The new SPINTAN associate partner is a team of innovation policy researchers at the Australian Government Department of Industry that produces the annual Australian Innovation System report. In this report series they have compared Australian intangible investment with other countries and woven it into their analysis.

The new SPINTAN associate partner produces a report which compares Australian intangible investment with other countries

As explained by Luke Hendrickson, the acting manager of the team, they look for good evidence for the link between innovation, productivity and other outcomes for society. Also they take a systemic view of innovation policy and so they are really interested in networks, collaboration and how government invest in such things as education, research, regulation and infrastructure spill over into private sector innovation activities.

Currently the team is undertaking or funding research work on:

Measuring the cost, impact and frequency of innovation at the firm level
Looking into the firm dynamics of productivity and employment
Developing measures/indicators for firm absorptive capacity
Quantifying the causal relationship between innovation and business performance at the firm level
Quantifying R&D spill-overs at the firm level
Quantifying the link between Australia’s competitive advantage and sectoral innovation system performance
Quantifying the relationship between business performance and management/leadership performance

May 15th, 2014