On 18 March 2014, the Senate referred an inquiry into Australia’s innovation system to the Senate Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by the first sitting day of July 2015.

On 24 March 2015, the Senate granted an extension to the committee to report by 10 August 2015. On 15 June 2015, the committee received a further extension to report by 15 October 2015. On 19 August 2015, the Senate granted the committee a further extension to report by 25 November 2015. On 23 November 2015, the committee received a further extension to report by 15 December 2015.

Submissions closed on 31 July 2014.

Please contact the committee secretariat on (02) 6277 3585 if you have any questions about this inquiry.