TAFE institutes are demanding a bigger role in the national R&D system, proposing a Canadian-style approach of direct applied research funding to leverage their industry connections and nation-wide network. An outside expert has backed the push, after finding the sector and the “techies and tradies” it produces have become a central but unheralded Australia’s innovation…

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