InnovateWA Policy

The State’s InnovateWA Policy has 3 key aims:

• To raise awareness of innovation as a driver of economic and technological change
• To strengthen and improve the educational and research capacity of the state
• To maximise the commercialisation of ideas by building links between industry and research

The Government of WA is committed to building a culture of innovation that extends from the classroom to research institutions, and involves the whole community.  In addition to over $200 million in research and development funding, in 2006/07 an additional $72 million for science and innovation was allocated for initiatives aimed at diversification and continued growth of the economy.

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Led by the WA’s Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley and with independent guidance from the Premier's Science and Innovation Council, the Department of Industry and Resources provides active support to the Premier on policy formulation and decision making in relation to science and innovation.

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These initiatives are just  some of the success stories enabled by  the InnovateWA Policy:

• The WA Energy Research Alliance (WAERA)
• The Centre for Food and Genomic Medicine’s Diabesity Research Program
• Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI)
• Memorandum of Understanding between WA, the Northern Territory and Queensland on tropical science knowledge and innovation - the Tropical Futures Program
  Building a critical mass of excellent researchers in WA by the appointment of six Premier’s Research Fellows in areas as diverse as nanotechnology, plant energy biology, geology, public health and radio astronomy
• Centres of Excellence (CoE) program which encourages the development of eminent multidisciplinary research teams working on projects of strategic importance to WA

In addition, discussions are currently underway regarding the allocation of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure (NCRIS) funding to Western Australian researchers.

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