Doug Hilton has laid out plans for it to help answer the big questions facing society, while also making some money along the way.
The new boss of the CSIRO says cutting-edge science must help smaller businesses improve their profitability and productivity, and that commercialisation should no longer be the main goal of the national science agency.the brightest ideas from Australian minds into commercial realities, newly appointed chief executive Doug Hilton said CSIRO should not be just about picking winners.
“CSIRO is a big enough organisation that we can use all the pathways to impact rather than focusing or emphasising one particular path.”Mr Hilton spent his first official day on the job visiting the Dish – the Parkes radio telescope officially named Murriyang – after a solo camping trip across central and south-east Queensland.
“I found the idea that this little slice of the world that we occupy as a nation is so crucial to space research really inspiring,” he said. Doug Hilton spent his first day on the job visiting the Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, also known as the Dish. “I’m really interested in helping the private sector, irrespective of the size, embrace research and see it as a really important part of their company’s sustainability, profitability and productivity,” he said.
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