Media and Opinion

News, opinions, and articles written by Howard Partners consultants, or referring to Howard Partners, can be viewed through the links below.

• Innovation in higher education happens through social capital
  The Australian Financial Review, 28 November 2022
  Australia’s frontier economy culture threatens opportunity and growth
  Pearls And Irritations, 9 November 2022
• Investing in Australian Public Research and Development: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities
  Presentation at the Australian Council of Deans of Science, Canberra. 25 October 2022
• Integrating Science, Technology, Innovation and Industry Policies 
  @AuManufacturing, 6 September 2022       
• The promise was for more industry-focused PhDs. The reality is different:
  Howard Partners, 26 February, 2022
  
• Disruption may be delayed, but forces of change are present:
  Australian Financial Review, 15 November 2021
• Unis must ramp up what they earn from industry collaboration:
  Australian Financial Review, 27 September 2021
• Australian accounts ‘exaggerating Covid impact’: Institutions accused of ‘opportunism’ over job cuts:
  John Ross, Times Higher Education, May 24, 2021
• Response to discussion questions on university research commercialisation consultation paper:
  Howard Partners, 9 April 2021
  
• Did Australian universities ride the international gravy train too far?:
  John Ross, Times Higher Education, 31 March, 2021
• Why do Australian universities have an obsession with rankings?:
  Pearls and Irritations, 22 March, 2021
  
• The choice for HE: commodity export or serving society:
  Campus Morning Mail, 15 March, 2021
• HE system in strife: the answer is to innovate:
  Campus Morning Mail, 9 March 2021
• Gloom not doom: unis will survive the loss of international student income:
  Campus Morning Mail, 3 March 2021
• In the face of financial doom, would big be better for universities?:
  Australian Financial Review, 1 March 2021
• Funding rules, not national need drive higher education:
  Campus Morning Mail, 22 February, 2021
• Australia’s higher education sector must be segmented:
  Times Higher Education, 18 February, 2021
• Cross-subsidisation ‘provoked Australian funding overhaul’:
  James Ross, Times Higher Education, 17 February, 2021
• The underlying tension between mission and money in our universities:
  Pearls and Irritations, 29 October, 2020
• Busted higher education policy demands a reset:
  Pearls and Irritations, 20 October 2020
• Challenges for Australian research and innovation post Covid-19 world:
  Pearls and Irritations, 13 May 2020
• Time for the government to make a long-term investment in research and innovation:
  The Australian, March 31 2020
• Business insight into more successful collaboration:
  The Australian, 31 August 2016
• Health innovation a winning story:
  The Australian, 13 July 2016
• Industry engagement and the emerging university business model:
  The Australian, 22 June 2016
• University Business Relationships – No Easy Fix:
  Howard Partners, 21 August 2014
• Smart Specialisation as an Engagement Framework for Triple Helix Interactions:
  Hélice Volume 5 (2016), Issue 3-4
  
• Arrium’s collapse shows Australia must get a lot smarter about steel:
  Roy Green and John H Howard, The Conversation, 8 April, 2016
  
• Five things about innovation Australia can learn from other countries:
  Roy Green and John H Howard, The Conversation, December 2, 2016
  
• Adapt or perish: Australia Post must embrace digital disruption:
  John H Howard, The Conversation, April 14, 2015