Business

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.