The Australian Government is now operating in line with Caretaker Conventions, pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
Collaboration supports the exchange of good ideas and useful technologies.
Innovation collaboration, top 6 partners
Consultants, clients and suppliers are consistently the top collaboration partners for innovation. Source: ABS 2018c, 2022c, 2024c
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This chart shows the collaboration partner for innovation-active firms who collaborated for innovation purposes across the 2016–17, 2020–21 and 2022–23 years. Collaborating firms are increasingly collaborating with consultants, 44.1% in 2022–23 from 32.2% in 2016–17.
Other common collaboration partners for firms include suppliers, customers or clients and other businesses owned by the same company.
Australian international co-authorship publications, by research field
International co-authorship publications are an indicator of international collaboration on innovation. Source: Clarivate 2024
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This metric shows the proportion of Australian international co-authored research publications by research field from 2000 to 2023. The chart reveals a steady increase in Australian papers with international co-authors across all research fields over the past twenty-three years. Engineering and Technology lead in international collaborations, followed by Natural Sciences, and Medical and Health Sciences. International co-authorship in Engineering and Technology has seen a threefold increase, surging from 23% to 74% during this period. The proportion of Australian international co-authored research publications in all other research fields has at least doubled over the same timeframe.
Australian co-invention patents
Foreign co-invention patents are an indicator of international innovation collaboration. Source: OECD 2024
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This chart shows the number of patent applications, submitted by Australian inventors that also had at least on co-inventor located abroad from 1978 to 2020.
The number of foreign co-invention patent applications has increased from 45 in 1978 to 1273 in 2020.