Business

From operational strategies and indexes to R&D tax incentives, forward-thinking organisations are taking all measures necessary to increase and maintain innovation.

Business

Incentivising

For firms investing in R&D, Alan Garcia believes one policy tool has an outsized – and measurable – impact.
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Capturing Innovation

How can we track progress in innovation if we do not have something to measure it against? Dean Pearson and the team at NAB has been following businesses since 2016 in an innovation index.
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Firms must embrace innovation first

Science and research provide new opportunities for Australia to change its business culture, and governments can facilitate greater activity, but innovation performance depends on actions in business, according to Mark Dodgson.
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Innovation is not an optional add-on

Innovative companies integrate their strategy not just into the operating model but into its culture as well. Companies that lose the drive to innovate risk losing staff skilled in driving innovation, writes Sammy Kumar.
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Amazing Facts: History’s Worst Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions are the business transactions wherein the ownership of organisations, or part of their operation, is consolidated with another organisation.
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Strategic thoughts for competitive companies

Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School is considered by many to be one of the most influential thinkers in the world on business strategy. He talks to Graham Hand about how he forms his ideas.
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Small Business, Big Impact: The Organisation Empowering SMEs

The Small Business Association of Australia is dedicated to supporting SMEs, acting as their voice to government and helping them connect, grow, and prosper well into the future.
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