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Here are some examples of the reports we have produced. They provide evidence-based analysis of long term trends and how they could impact industries and nations in future.

Australia 2030: navigating our uncertain future

The Australia 2030 report uses a scenarios-based approach to help business and government to plan today’s innovation investments to meet future opportunities and challenges.

Food and Agribusiness Roadmap: unlocking value‑adding growth opportunities for Australia

Future growth of the sector cannot be sustained by productivity improvements alone. CSIRO Futures worked with industry and researchers to identify major growth opportunities and what the food and agribusiness sector needs to do to achieve them.

Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Roadmap

Innovation, disruptive technologies and new business models are creating unprecedented growth in the lucrative global Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals industry. CSIRO Futures worked with industry, government and researchers to map out a path to establish an ecosystem to enable the MTP sector in Australia to grow and scale at a time of unprecedented opportunity. This report is the second in a series of five Roadmaps, each aligned to the Federal Government’s Industry Growth Centres.

Mining Equipment, Technology and Services Roadmap

The Mining Equipment, Technology and Services Roadmap – unlocking future growth opportunities for Australia

Low Emissions Technology Roadmap

The Low Emissions Technology Roadmap provides an independent, science-based analysis of the technology options in the energy sector that can help Australia meet its 2030 emissions reduction target and create new opportunities for local industry.

Advanced Manufacturing Roadmap

Australian manufacturing is transforming. CSIRO Futures worked with industry, government and researchers to identify major growth opportunities and what the manufacturing sector needs to do to achieve them.

Enabling Australia's Digital Future

In partnership with CSIRO's digital technology team and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, CSIRO Futures developed a report on the opportunities and challenges that cybersecurity will present in our increasingly digital economy. The report focuses on three key areas - health, energy and government.

Our Future World: global megatrends report

This report describes the outcomes from a CSIRO global foresight project. It presents six megatrends that will have a major impact on Australia over the next 20 years.

Unlocking Australia’s resource potential

Drawing on independent analysis and interviews with senior leaders across Australia's largest minerals and energy companies, this study examines the barriers to innovation and maps out a way forward for innovation success.

The future of mining in Chile CSIRO Chile

This study presents a snapshot of the current state of the industry.
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