The world is changing rapidly with the competitive industries of tomorrow looking vastly different to those of today, underpinned by emerging science and technology. We leverage CSIRO’s cross-disciplinary research to help industry and government customers explore the next wave of growth. Examples include advanced manufacturing, space, cyber security and quantum technologies.
The Quantum Technology Roadmap provides a vision for this emerging sector within Australia and identifies short-term enabling actions to help maintain and build on the nations existing competitive advantages.
The Quantum Technology Roadmap provides a vision for this emerging sector within Australia and identifies short-term enabling actions to help maintain and build on the nations existing competitive advantages. Our economic analysis estimated that by 2040, Australia’s quantum technology sector could be generating over $4 billion annually and facilitating 16,000 new jobs. These benefits would be split across key industries including quantum computing, communications, and sensing and measurement.
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The Cyber Security Roadmap focuses on digital opportunities that are likely to be adopted across Australia's priority growth sectors.
Cyber security has never been more important, both as an enabler for Australian industry and as a source of economic growth itself. To help Australia's cyber security sector pursue growth, this Roadmap focuses on digital opportunities that are likely to be adopted across Australia's priority growth sectors: Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals; Mining Equipment, Technology and Services; Advanced Manufacturing; Oil and Gas; and Food and Agriculture. Cyber security, positioned as a horizontal sector, will be an enabler to each of these industries in their pursuit of digital transformation, global competitiveness and growth.
The Space Roadmap seeks to support industry growth by identifying opportunities across space-derived services, space object tracking, and space exploration and utilisation.
Australia's space industry is poised for growth thanks to pioneering technology transformation, industry momentum created by the Australian Space Agency, and growing demand for downstream services. The CSIRO Space Roadmap seeks to support industry growth by identifying opportunities across space-derived services, space object tracking, and space exploration and utilisation. These three strategic areas leverage Australia’s comparative advantages and geography, and can provide benefits to other industries or value chains.
The Advanced Manufacturing Roadmap seeks to identify major growth opportunities and what the manufacturing sector needs to do to achieve them.
Australian manufacturing is transforming – it is becoming increasingly global, with customisation and the integration of service offerings becoming the new norm. These changes bring with them immense strategic growth opportunities. However, turning them into reality requires technology and innovation as well as investment in new business models, knowledge and practices. To help, CSIRO Futures worked with industry, government and researchers to identify major growth opportunities and what the manufacturing sector needs to do to achieve them.
The report highlights specific trends and scenarios in industry and presents a high-level roadmap for addressing the challenges presented by the rapidly changing nature of cyberthreats.
Australia’s future is digital, hyperconnected and critically dependent on technology, making strong cyber security capability crucial to navigating the associated risks and opportunities ahead. In partnership with CSIRO's digital technology team and the Defence Science and Technology (DST), CSIRO Futures developed a report on the opportunities and challenges that cyber security will present in our increasingly digital economy. The report highlights specific trends and scenarios in healthcare, energy and government services, and presents a high-level roadmap for addressing the challenges presented by the rapidly changing nature of cyberthreats.