Recommendations for Government |
The BRITE 2004 Innovation Survey report proposes a range of initiatives
that governments could introduce to improve the innovation environment
for the construction industry:
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Implement programs to assist skill development in industry associations, given the central role the associations play in providing ideas to low innovators. |
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Review the value and accessibility of the R&D Tax Concession Scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises within the construction industry, as the industry has a low access rate. |
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Review the effectiveness of programs aimed at promoting industry awareness of international competition, given that a quarter of the industry is unsure of Australia’s ability to cope with it. |
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More strongly resource education and training programs, as the construction industry relies more on organisational (people and processes) innovation than the manufacturing industry, and therefore is less able to gain value from the R&D Tax Concession. |
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Improve the regulation of the construction industry, to reduce its negative impact on innovation. This can be done in part by improving national consistency and moving more rapidly from prescriptive to performance-based regulation. |
