The AIS tracks the conditions for creating and adopting new technologies and knowledge. This helps us better understand Australia’s innovation performance.
The AIS includes data from 34 innovation metrics, that together provide a concise picture of Australia’s innovation system and how it is supporting productivity growth.
The dashboards allow users to explore enabling factors of innovation around the domestic business environment, collaboration, skills, international trade, research and development investment.
The update adds 1 new metric (exports and imports of intellectual property to the International Trade Dashboard) and provides updated data for 8 other metrics. It also includes the SRI Budget Tables for 2025-26.
The 2025 update shows:
- The government’s investment in research and development will increase by 1.4% to an estimated $15.1 billion in 2025–26.
- Challenges to innovation include a decline in venture capital investment to below pre-COVID levels.
- Slowed growth in Australian scientific publications and international co-authorship.
- Australia's imports of intellectual property exceed its exports.
Three new insights that draw out key data observations from the AIS metrics have also been released, covering:
- the role of expenditure on research and development in productivity growth
- what international indicators say about innovation
- what the 2025–26 Science Research and Innovation (SRI) Budget Tables tell us about government investments in science, research and innovation.