By Paul Clifton. While the proposed establishment of Industry Growth Centres has been the subject of much of the limited public attention to the Coalition Government’s Industry, Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda, the policy has a range of notable implications for higher education. It is unsurprisingly that the relationship between industry and public research has come under significant scrutiny, in spite of misstatements by Industry Minister Ian MacFarlane in the lead-up to its mid-October release (including a proposal to reallocate research funding based upon patent registrations). More...