Publication Date

7-2025

Publisher

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

City

Perth

Abstract

  • Decades ago, the agricultural R&D ecosystem in Western Australia (WA) was fairly simple with few funders and some key providers of R&D services such as the Department of Agriculture, CSIRO and the University of Western Australia.
  • Since then, the agricultural R&D ecosystem in WA has increased in complexity with more R&D providers and a greater injection of industry and private funding.
  • These changes have occurred against a backdrop of the total investment in agricultural R&D declining as a share of agriculture’s gross value of production.
  • State and federal governments have reduced their share of the total investment in agricultural R&D.
  • Despite the changes in WA’s agricultural R&D ecosystem, productivity growth in WA agriculture has remained impressively high.
  • Many farmers and local consumers of WA agricultural products and foods continue to benefit from this productivity growth.
  • A rising need amid WA’s complex agricultural R&D ecosystem is the provision of hubs, incentives and infrastructure that enables cost-sharing and enhanced scientific collaboration.
  • An efficient and highly productive WA agriculture sector that can readily draw on R&D and innovation outcomes will help maintain export revenues and place downward pressure on local food prices.

Number of Pages

36

Keywords

research and development, R&D ecosystem, agriculture, investment, Western Australia

Disciplines

Agricultural Economics | Research Methods in Life Sciences

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