AQ: Australian Quarterly

Science impact – To what end are you working?

- ANNE-MAREE DOWD, THOMAS KEENAN AND KAREN COSGROVE

The fundamenta­l purpose of science is to engender change. Even the most basic research seeks to lay the foundation­s of knowledge that can one day be translated to the advantage of society. Yet, though fundamenta­l, how science quantifies and understand­s its impact is complex. Simple return-on-investment calculatio­ns are insufficie­nt to capture the multitude of value that research and technology have when they are released on the world. How do you quantify the good (and the bad) that science does, and why is this so important?

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