For decades, Australian policy has been anchored on a familiar refrain: universities must do more to engage with the end-users of research. The underlying assumption has been that if universities became better at outreach, collaboration and commercialisation, the nation’s innovation performance would follow. Recent data paints a different picture. According to analysis reported in Future…

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