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  1. 'Labs aren't the only ones with ideas' - Australian Financial Review Opinion
    Tue Jun 16 2009
    Opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review by Australian Business Foundation Chairman, Stephen Mills
  2. 'Key to unlocking the mysteries of innovation' - Australian Financial Review Opinion
    Mon Nov 16 2009
    Opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review by Australian Business Foundation Chairman, Stephen Mills on 21 November, 2009.
  3. 'Better Regulation: Driving Productivity and Growth': Speech by The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP, Minister for Finance and Deregulation.
    Mon Feb 15 2010

    THE HON LINDSAY TANNER MP

    MINISTER FOR FINANCE AND DEREGULATION

    MEMBER FOR MELBOURNE

    Address to Australian Business Foundation, 15 February 2010, Sydney 

    BETTER REGULATION: DRIVING PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH 

    Response to OECD Review of Regulatory Reform in Australia 

  4. INNOVATION & PRODUCTIVITY:The Australian Business Foundation
    Mon Feb 15 2010

    The productivity imperative

    • Australia’s productivity growth has declined in the last decade to 1.4%. This compares unfavourably with the Hawke/Keating reforms of the 1980s-1990s where productivity growth hit 2%. Turning around Australia’s productivity growth is a key imperative detailed in the Government’s 2010 Intergenerational Report.

    • The ‘big-bang’ productivity reforms of the Hawke/Keating government featured the floating of the dollar, tariff cuts and a concerted microeconomic reform agenda. These prescriptions have run their course and can’t just be repeated today.

    • The equivalent ‘big bang’ agenda to lift productivity today is innovation. But, not innovation defined narrowly as science, research and technology. The kind of innovation that counts is action that transforms Australia’s business capabilities, skills and competitiveness.
    Business transformation is key to productivity gains
  5. Presentation by Narelle Kennedy, CEO, to CPA Congress, Sydney 20 October 2010
    Sat Oct 16 2010

    On 20th October 2010 Chief Executive Narelle Kennedy addressed the CPA Congress, speaking about the hidden human factors of innovation.  She drew on many examples from the Foundation's publication Inside the Innovation Matrix: Finding the Hidden Human Factors.

    To read the speech click here.

  6. R&D Tax Credit legislation press release from Senator the Hon Kim Carr - 22 July 2011
    Tue Aug 16 2011
  7. Presentation by CEO Narelle Kennedy to Austrade, 20 July 2011
    Tue Aug 16 2011
  8. Presentation to Austrade by Marcus Spiller, August 2011
    Tue Aug 16 2011
  1. Models of National and Regional Economic Development
  2. The BERD in the hand: supporting Business Investment in Research and Development
  3. Dan Swinney's Prensentation from event on 1 April 2011 members only
  4. Presentation by Narelle Kennedy, CEO, Australian Business Foundation to CPA Congress, Sydney
  5. Australian Innovation System Report 2010

    The first in a series of new annual reports takes a hard look at how Australia’s national innovation system is performing.
    ...read more

  6. Conversations on innovation members only
  7. Systems thinking, market failure and the development of innovation policy: The case for Australia

    This latest piece of scholarship from Professor Mark Dodgson, Professor Alan Hughes, Professor John Foster and Professor Stan Metcalfe, all of whom are close associates of the Foundation, argues the case for alternative approaches to innovation policy in Australia.
    ...read more

  8. Productivity, Creative Destruction and Innovation Policy
  9. Diaspora and the Global Economy members only

    How can Australia better leveraging our vast reservoir of ideas, insights, contacts and connections?
    ...read more

  10. The Hidden Human Dimensions of Innovation - Hargraves Institute Presentation
  11. The Strategic Research Priorities for the Australian Business Foundation 2009
  12. The Future Revisted: A review of Alternative Futures: Scenarios for Business in Australia to the year 2015
  13. Engaging China: The realities for Australian businesses