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Nature 400, 703 (19 August 1999) | doi:10.1038/23331

Open Innovation Challenges

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Australia plans research reforms but without extra funding

Peter Pockley

David Kemp, Australia's minister of education, training and youth affairs, has proposed some major changes in the way research is organized, including giving incentives to some universities to identify "specialized niches" for themselves in research and teaching.His strategy is based on the universities obtaining extra revenue by commercializing their research more effectively and expanding their research contracts with the private sector.