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drIvINGINNovATIoN Enhancing Australiaʼs Global Competitiveness



The Warren Centre: A NATIONAL RESOURCEThe Warren Centre looks over the horizon to • International intelligence: uniquelyidentify new economic opportunities that will informing stakeholders on new internationaldrive prosperity for Australia. We deliver thought technology developments, through deepleadership in engineering, technology, and academic and business links and a sustainedinnovation. As William J Cameron, Public program of expert global scanningRelations Manager for the Henry Ford MotorCompany stated, “Money never starts an idea; • Balance: balancing commercial interestsit is the idea that starts the money.” with an understanding of both the threats and opportunities from disruptive innovationThe Warren Centre identifies new technology-driven opportunities early and facilitates • E ngineering perspective: bringingcollaborative pragmatic analysis to ensure a concrete, disciplined and systematicAustralia remains at the forefront of global approach to identifying, assessing andinsights and competitiveness. We engage fostering discussion of new technologyseamlessly across industry sectors, associations, opportunities for Australiagovernment and academia to bring together thebest intelligence for the benefit of Australia. • C hanging mind-sets: bringing Australians’ internationally-recognised ‘can do’ andThe Warren Centre’s unique role in helping to ‘tenacious’ characteristics to institutionsdrive the prosperity of Australia is embodied inthe enduring themes of: • T he value of ideas: understanding the value and importance of intellectual property• Innovation: through identifying, framing, and strengthening awareness of new For three decades The Warren technology opportunities Centre has made an outstanding• Collaboration: engaging commercial contribution at the interface of interest with industry, government and engineering, industry and public academia and leveraging our unique policy. Often it has led the debate, institutional independence and objectivity to identify connections and create links in a practical, results-oriented across industries way and with a collaborative inter-disciplinary approach.• National significance: acutely focusing on priorities for Australia’s international ~ The Hon Nick Greiner AC, competitiveness and prosperity NSW Premier (1988 – 1992)• L onger term view: consistently taking a 5 to 20 year perspectiveThe Warren Centre Sustaining Australia’s Global Competitiveness Page 3

THE ECONOMIC VALUEOF INNOVATIONInnovation is widely recognised as central to sus- Hotspots of Global Innovation by Antoine vantained economic growth and rising living standards Agtmael and Fred Bakker (2015) contains numerousthrough strengthened productivity, commencing examples from the USA and Europe of the potencywith Joseph Schumpeter’s seminal work on of collaboration, multidisciplinary thinking andmodern market-based economies, The Theory the development, testing and application of newof Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, technologies in regenerating economic activity atCapital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle, the local level, including:(1934). More recently, Robert Gordon in The Riseand Fall of American Growth (2016) identifies • Polymer science in Akron Ohio USA,innovation stemming from the ‘great inventions’of the 18th and 19th century as the central driver • Biotechnology in Zurich Switzerland, andof the unprecedented half-century of sustainedproductivity growth between 1920 and 1970. • Wireless sensor technologies, flexible electronics and other high-tech industries inInnovation is vital to drive productivity growth, Eindhoven Netherlands.a prerequisite for a revival of real wage growthand rising living standards. Common to these case studies is the central role of a ‘connector’ – an individual or organisationFor the past two decades there has been growing with the vision, insights, relationships, influencerecognition of the potency in stimulating economic and advocacy skills to bring relevant partiesgrowth, export opportunities and prosperity by together collaboratively – a role that The Warrencombining innovation with collaboration, multi- Centre has successfully fulfilled from its inception.disciplinary thinking and the rapid testing andembrace of new technologies. This recognition The Warren Centre engages multiple partnersis based on an expanding body of evidence of throughout the innovation ecosystem, enhancingsuccess in reviving economic activity. The Smartest awareness of global industry trends and supportingPlaces on Earth: Why Rustbelts are the Emerging translation of research to build the next generation companies that will fuel the Australian economy. The enterprise that does not innovate inevitably ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present... the decline will be fast. ~ peter drucker Author, Innovation and EntrepreneurshipPage 4 The warren Centre

What this debate needs is engineering and economics. ~ Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull 21 March 2017 Innovation – STEM R&D Tax Beyond the Idea Strategies Credit Program for Australia (2003) (2015, 2016) (2015) Enterprise Innovation Growing WA through (2000) INdEpE NdENT AdvICE To GovErNmENT Innovation (2016)Engineering InstitutingEnterprise Growth Industry Networks(1996) (1995 – 2005)Cybersecurity CATALySING INduSTr Future of Energy(2017) (1996 – 2016)Quantum LIC AwArENESS High PerformanceComputing Computing(2016) (1983 – 1992)Medical Technology rAISING y TransportationInnovation (2016) INNovATIoN Innovation puB Creativity & Technology (1983 – 2012) (2016, 2017) Cities & Urban Reform (1995 – 2015) Innovation & Process, Management Commercialisation and Risk Innovation (1996 – 2017) (1983 – 2017) Spark Women in STEM Robotics, Space Festival and Entrepreneurship Automobiles and Innovation Automation (2017) (2016, 2017) (2017) (2014, 2015)Sustaining Australia’s Global Competitiveness Page 5

drIvINGINNovATIoN Photography Copyright: Demas Rusli @demasrusliThe warren Centre has established a network of Australian innovators, united in theirdedication to the nation’s continued prosperity. Supported by a dynamic executive team,an Innovation Advisory Team, and an independent pro bono board of distinguished industryleaders, the warren Centre leverages decades of experience and insights to maintain afuture focus. A number of leading industrialists have indicated their support for the warrenCentre’s future, in concert with recognition from the Commonwealth, recognising the nationalimportance of the warren Centre’s contribution. The warren Centre is seeking additionaland long term funding to ensure Australia navigates the next wave of innovation andremains focused on achieving global competitiveness.Page 6 The warren Centre

2018 – 2020 STRATEGIC PROGRAMThe Warren Centre has committed to the following two year indicative program encompassing keyareas of national importance and opportunity. The areas leverage the Warren Centre’s strengths,the ability to engage collaboratively across sectors, and current project activities. Each focus area willdeliver an insights report underpinned by a comprehensive research program. Launch of the report willbe supported by a series of educational and industry engagement programs designed to catalyse action.The following focus areas offer high value innovation opportunities for Australia:Agricultural innovation Skills for the Future: “STEM plus”This program will identify the production and digital transformation The Knowledge Economy of tomorrow requires a creative workopportunities necessary for continued international competitiveness, force with multidisciplinary science, technology, engineeringincluding robotics, precision agriculture, technology services, and mathematics (STEM) skills combined with leadership andlarge-set data analytics, autonomous systems and regional communications competencies. The future generations will need theconnections. The program will leverage the experience and capability to engage with a highly diverse domestic population,insights from the development of successful high tech sectors in a complex global business environment. The Warren Centresuch as the mining services sector to exploit knowledge and will advance our long history of STEM advocacy in undertakinghard experience already available in Australia. As the 2016 a major collaborative project with Australian industry to foreseeHouse of Representatives Standing Committee report Smart future skills needs. The project will be undertaken in partnershipfarming: Inquiry into agricultural innovation cites, productivity with the education sector to identify the critical points of influenceincreases of many tens of billions of dollars are likely if in our skills supply chain, to ensure Australia maintains anAustralia can fully capitalise on this opportunity. adaptive and ‘future ready’ workforce which sustains our global competitiveness.Engineering, society and thebuilt environment Translating Ideas into ProsperityEngineering a better physical, virtual and operational society The Warren Centre has a legacy of providing a bridgerequires engagement across a number of engineering sectors. between industry and academia, overcoming existing barriersThe Warren Centre will develop program elements to examine: to collaboration. This project will identify key topics creating• E fficient delivery of major infrastructure to save a portion a platform for increased collaboration between industry and academia, and support existing national programs such as of the $30 billion identified in our Infrastructure Productivity Industry Growth Centre activities. The program will include IP30 project commercialisation training and understanding for academic• In-built mitigation of critical risk factors to ensure Australia participants along with a robust framework to develop remains globally competitive. Examples include fire safety intellectual property value. engineering and cybersecurity• Innovation-ready infrastructure that anticipates emerging Performance Metrics opportunities and challenges such as autonomous vehicles, The Warren Centre will develop metrics and key smart cities and connected systems performance indicators specific to each program. Metrics, based on international best practice, willInnovation Showcase identify the direct economic benefits and value at national and regional levels to help catalyse Australia’sThe Warren Centre will showcase and promote the innovation innovation ecosystem. Metrics will include:capability within Australia through a series of events and • S tart up and ecosystem supportdigital media campaigns to illustrate the value of innovation • Jobs and employment impactsto society, facilitating cross-sector connections and cultivating • New technology valuationnew ideas. These events will include: • A ustralian intellectual property value• A n annual Innovation Lecture sharing inspiration from • C ommunity and industry engagement metrics in a leading Australian post project communications• Innovation Forums exploring our rapidly changing The Warren Centre also will identify intangible technology environment and qualitative benefits from overcoming innovation barriers through networking and community• A n Innovation Awards program encouraging and eco-system support. recognising high value innovationReflecting The Warren Centre’s core competence, all threeelements will increase the awareness of Australia’s innovationcapability, create networks to stimulate the innovation ecosystemand identify strengths and strategies to ensure Australia retainsand increases its globally competitive position.The unique approach of the Warren Centre to major technology issues has produced some extraordinary breakthroughs. ~ Catherine Livingstone AO Chairman of the Commonwealth Bank of AustraliaSustaining Australia’s Global Competitiveness Page 7

The Warren Centre:30 YEAR TRACK RECORDThe central roles in economic growth and rising living standards of innovation, collaboration,multidisciplinary thinking and new technologies – foundation stones of The Warren Centresince its creation in 1983 – are now widely recognised as a potent formula to stimulate nationalprosperity and global competitiveness.INNovATIoN muLTIdISCIpLINAry ThINkINGThe Warren Centre has consistently examined new In 2005, the Warren Centre recognised the value in atechnologies at the cusp of development and showcased multidisciplinary approach to transport planning, developingthe practical economic opportunities for innovation by the Sustainable Transport for Sustainable Cities roadmapAustralian industry. Examples include local area networks drawing on liveability, societal behaviour, urban planning,(1983), energy efficiency (1990, 1994, 1998, 2007, transport management and infrastructure delivery. The Roadmap2010), electric vehicles (1991) and Asian technology trends challenged established norms of the time by first developing afavourable for the Australian copper industry (2016). The detailed understanding of society’s transport needs, and onlyWarren Centre’s Annual Innovation Lecture challenges the then identifying how transport systems could meet these needsperception that Australia is lacking in innovation capability. – that is, taking the now-familiar user-centric point of view.The prescient Smart Card Forum in 1995 and Chris Nicholls’sInnovation Lecture ‘Spitting Chips’ in 2007 demonstrate the NEw TEChNoLoGIESpower of public lectures, industry forums and focused projectsin triggering and accelerating productivity-enhancing innovations The Warren Centre has continuously led the way in examiningyears ahead of their widespread public awareness. the capabilities and value-add opportunities of new technologies. An early example of continuous effort includes the efficiencyCoLLABorATIoN offered by Computer Aided Design starting in 1985. The Centre promoted CAD/CAM tools in the 1980s and 90s in the earliestThe Warren Centre’s Professional Performance program days of those transformative technologies. After 34 years of(2005 to present) bridges the legal, insurance, academic, promoting advanced engineering technologies, the Centre hasproject management, engineering and government sectors, recently showcased the power of Building Information Modellingworking with more than thirty professional and industry technologies (2015), emerging international industry standardsbodies to resolve and clarify issues in risk management and (2016) and the latest developments in Virtual Reality (VR) andprofessional indemnity to enhance the competitiveness of Augmented Reality (AR) tools in engineering and infrastructureAustralian engineers. Adopted by the Board of Professional projects (2016). Commercially impartial assessment of technologyEngineering Queensland in its 2013 Code of Practice and is paramount in the Warren Centre’s work. Projects and publicformally embraced by Engineers Australia this year, the forums on local area networks (LANs) (1983), Smart Cardsprotocol is an example of broad and sustained collaboration (1995), Low Energy High Rise building (2007) and quantumto deliver practical solutions to complex issues. computing (2016) have identified and championed these transformative enablers.The Warren Centre recognises that, while each of these foundational themes is in itself important as a growthdriver, their greatest potency derives from the additive effect of working collaboratively across the private andpublic sectors.Page 8 The warren Centre

THE WARREN CENTRE: 30 YEAR TRACK RECORD Many Warren Centre projects are so visionary it can take the rest of the community some years to catch up. Let’s ensure the Centre’s benefits to innovative design, engineering practice and business enterprise just keep on coming. We need them. ~ Len Ainsworth Founder Ainsworth Game Technology LtdCase Study: Energy Technology 2007 2010 2016The Warren Centre looks to the future to identify Low Energy Low Energy High The Copperemerging technologies and to help Australians Rise Implemention Technologyunderstand business opportunities High Rise Roadmap Stage 2 develops a 1991 1994 1998 A world-first project toolkit to implement Identifies Australian identifies significant energy efficiency. copper growth Electric Vehicles Coal Seam Gas Industrial Energy differences in energy opportunities to supply Efficiency efficiency and empirical strong Asian solar, Envisions standard Develops coal bed data relating operational wind and electric Holden cars methane (CBM) Reinforces energy behaviour to NABERS vehicle demand. converted to electric extraction techniques efficiency to improve energy ratings.1990 vehicles. Examines and demonstrates a competitiveness. electric motors thorough trial.Energy exploiting new, 2017Management high-intensity IEA counts 2015 magnets. global electric vehicleIdentifies stock at 2 million.strategies forprocess industries 2016to improve energy Roadmap presented at Londonefficiency Metals Exchange Week inand global October.competitiveness. 2016 November LME copper price rises 20%.Setting the Path for Innovation 2009 2016The Warren Centre influences Energy Efficiency Council CBD program expands. Disclosure threshold lowered 1000 m².Australian thinking to capture the forms. 2015economic opportunities that arise 2008 Melbourne’s Brighsun sets e-bus world record forfrom engineering and technological IEA calls for 10% reductions in distance on a single charge.innovation. CO₂ emissions to (2030) 2003 2014 Tesla is founded. Becomes NSW Chief Scientist reports CSG risks can be managed. electric vehicle leader. 2011 2000 Clean Tech Investment Program; Queensland Govt. mandates 18% 603 projects; $315 million electricity supplied by gas by 2020. 1996 2010 CSG commercial production begins Commercial Building Disclosure (CBD) Program implemented. in Bowen Basin, QLD. Mandates Building Energy Efficiency Certificate and NABERS rating.The Low Energy High Rise (LEHR) Project shows the combined value of innovation, collaboration,multidisciplinary thinking and new technologies. LEHR identified significant cost saving opportunitiesin building operations through energy efficiency. By identifying and documenting the innovativebehaviour of leading performers, LEHR collaborated with building owners, managers, operators,engineers and service providers to improve environmental and economic outcomes. The projectprovided a basis for the foundation for the national Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act (2010).Sustaining Australia’s Global Competitiveness Page 9

AdvANCING As Australia transitions from an economyAuSTrALIA’S heavily reliant on commodities, the importancerESEArCh of innovation will increase. The activities of theANd Warren Centre and its achievements in innovationINNovATIoN are highly aligned with the National InnovationCApABILITy and Science Agenda. The Warren Centre is the only Australian thought leader with a 30 yearPhotography Copyright: track record in identifying, articulating andDemas Rusli @demasrusli promoting Australia’s innovation opportunities.page 10 The Warren Centre has helped demonstrate how innovation builds the future by providing ‘ahead of the mainstream’ exposure for business, government and the public to new technologies and their applications. Since 2004, the Centre has assisted in laying the foundations for ongoing innovation through long term leadership in STEM education. Examples include: • Innovation Panels: a series of forums that bring together opinion leaders to develop specific themes around innovation, ranging from transport and energy through to medical technology, fintech and creative industries with outcomes promulgated to industry stakeholders. • The Professional Performance Program (PPIR) is targeted at improving the performance of engineers and engineering teams to raise productivity, the professional skill and com- petitiveness of Australian engineers through a better perspective of the engineer’s role. • The Warren Centre’s Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship (WISE) Program aims to increase participation of girls in STEM education at the critical late primary and early secondary school stages of education; to increase participation of women in other parts of the innovation ecosystem including innovative businesses, start-ups and entrepre- neurial activities and careers; and to stimulate an increase in the number of women in senior leadership and decision making positions in government, research organisations, industry and businesses. • Continually updated website showcasing of Warren Centre innovation collaborations such as the Digital Innovations for Farms Taskforce, break-through innovations from ongoing technology monitoring and many other Warren Centre innovation initiatives.

20 Years The Warren Centreʼs annual Innovation Lecture Seriesof Innovation and Innovation Hero Awards put an exemplary selection of successful Australian innovators in the public spotlight. 2016: Engineering a Better world Marita Cheng, Founder of Robogals, Young Australian of the Year 2012 2015: robotics, Automation and Intelligent operations Professor Salah Sukkarieh FTSE, Director of Research and Innovation, Australian Centre for Field Robotics 2014: Beyond Earth Enrico Palermo, VP Operations, The Spaceship Company (Virgin Galactic) 2013: Thinking Big & making It happen Dr Alex Zelinsky, Chief Defence Scientist, DSTO 2012: Innovation in motion – Conquering the Global Automotive Industry Ric Tamba, Senior Vice President Car Transmissions Global, AVL 2011: making mApTEk – Innovation in the mining Industry Dr Bob Johnson, Founder & Chairman, MAPTEK 2010: The robots Are Coming! The robotics revolution in Australian Industry Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte FRS, Research Director, Australian Centre for Field Robotics 2009: from Australia to the world: The Story of Google maps & Google wave Dr Lars Rasmussen, Google 2008: The Art and practice of Engineering in a digital world Tristram Carfrae, Structural Design Engineer & ARUP Fellow, ARUP 2007: Technology magic – Spitting Chips and Global Success Dr Chris Nicol, Chief Technology Officer (Embedded Systems), NICTA 2006: Childhood dreams made real Don Fry AO, Owner and Chairman, AIMTEK 2005: where’s waldo?… Tenix’s Global Search for Innovative Solutions Paul Salteri AM, Managing Director, Tenix Pty Limited 2004: our Time (Zone) is Coming Dr Keith Williams AM, CEO, Proteome Systems Ltd 2003: The money or The Box – Lessons from Looksmart Evan Thornley, Chair, Looksmart Ltd 2002: why Is It So difficult to develop Great Ideas and Inventions in Australia: Australians Can make It Dr Jim Fox, Managing Director, Vision Systems Limited 2001: Building an Innovative Global Enterprise from Australia Peter Fogarty, CEO, ERG Group 2000: managing the Innovative Global Enterprise Catherine Livingstone AO, Managing Director, Cochlear Limited 1999: value Creation Through Innovation Denis Hanley AM 1998: Transnational Strategies to drive point of Sale Technology Innovation John Wood, Managing Director, Keycorp 1997: The practical Nature of Innovation in Australian Large Businesses Jerry Ellis, Chairman-elect, BHP Co Ltd 1996: Technology and Innovation in the America’s Cup Challenge and for Australia John Bertrand AM Contact: Ashley Brinson, Executive Director 02 9351 3752 • [email protected] • www.thewarrencentre.org.au

The Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile, that is innovative, that is creative. We cannot be defensive, we cannot future proof ourselves. We have to recognise that the disruption that we see driven by technology, the volatility and change is our friend, is our friend if we are agile and smart enough to take advantage of it. ~ Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull 15 September 2015 Established within the faculty of Engineering in 1983 to mark100 years of engineering education at The university of Sydney Cover & Back Cover Photography by: Demas Rusli @demasrusli


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