News & Views item - July 2008

 

 

Delivery of Green Paper Stemming from Review of Australia's National Innovation System. (July 29, 2008)

On January 22, the federal  Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, announced a review of Australia's national innovation system to be conducted by an expert panel chaired by Dr Terry Cutler.

 

The review panel is expected to deliver a Green Paper to Minister Kim Carr tomorrow which is to be released for comment by stakeholders and the general public at Senator Carr's discretion.

 

In response a government White Paper is expected later this year.

 

As a reminder, the members of the review panel are listed below.

 

Name  Affiliation
 Dr Terry Cutler (Chair)  Principal of Cutler & Company
 Dr Nicholas Gruen  CEO of Lateral Economics
 Prof Mary O'Kane  Executive Chairman of Mary O’Kane & Associates Pty Ltd
 Prof Steve Dowrick  Professor, School of Economics, the Australian National University
 Ms Narelle Kennedy  Chief Executive of the Australian Business Foundation

 Prof Glyn Davis (AC)

  Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Melbourne

 Ms Catherine Livingstone (AO)

  Director – Future Directions International
 - Macquarie Group Ltd
 - WorleyParsons Ltd
 - Telstra Corporation Ltd
 - Macquarie Graduate School of Management Pty Ltd
 Dr Megan Clark  Vice President Technology, BHP Billiton
 Professor John Foster  Head of the School of Economics, University of Queensland

 Dr Jim Peacock (ex-officio) (AC)

  Chief Scientist
 Ms Patricia Kelly (ex-officio)  Deputy Secretary of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science
 and Research

 

 

[Note added 31 August, 2008: The release of the Cutler Review of the National Innovation System (the Green Paper) has been postponed until the end of August.


Journalist: The Cutler Review's Green Paper was supposed to be released today?

Senator Carr: The Panel has been asked for a month's extension on that review, we've had over 700 submissions and the Panel is working through those submissions and I've granted that extension for a month.]