Like them, while it will be adjusted for inflation, there will be no real rate of interest charged under the scheme. The Government says its online curriculum initiative for schools will link in with measures al- ready taken to promote online skills in school children. The Industry Minister, Senator Minchin, said at the weekend the themes of the innovation statement would be increasing the nation's capacity to generate ideas, improving its ability to commercialise those ideas and addressing the critical issue of improving maths, science and information technology skills. He said it was important to develop stronger links between research institutions and business. It's always going to be difficult to prevent every invention from being commercialised overseas.
Australian inventors have every right to get the best price.
Our job is to maximise the prospect of those inventions being commercialised in Australia. Labor's industry spokeswoman, Dr Carmen Lawrence, predicted the statement would be too little too late.