Australian universities are creating “genuine productivity spillovers” long before research is commercialised, according to Professor Brian Schmidt, who warns the demonstrable economic benefit of discovery research is being overshadowed by a funding and political system that favours “widgets”. In a talk at the Universities Australia Conference last week, the Nobel Prize winner and Australian National…

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