Whitepaper
Research security & Australia’s innovation future
Discover how to close Australia’s research security gap. This whitepaper gives funders and policymakers the intelligence to protect strategic capability without losing global collaboration.
Research governance was built for projects, not networks.
You track every grant and disclosure, project by project. But strategic capability accumulates across networks no single file reveals. Left unaddressed, dependencies form silently, until a policy decision lands with no evidence to weigh it against.
No single project appears strategically problematic. Yet across five institutions, something different has quietly formed.”
Juergen Wastl
VP Research Evaluation and Global Challenges, Digital Science
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This whitepaper is for you if…
You are involved in setting research strategy and are intereated in seeing the full picture:
- Research funders assessing grants without visibility into system-wide capability concentration
- Policymakers weighing research security decisions without evidence of cost versus benefit
- University research leaders navigating AUKUS-aligned partnerships and dependencies
What you’ll discover
This whitepaper gives you the framework to move from passive visibility to institutional intelligence:
- How capability quietly concentrates across institutions before anyone can see it forming
- How to separate genuine strategic exposure from productive international collaboration
- What institutional intelligence requires beyond infrastructure alone
