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The R&D tax concession further blocks these fields by applying restrictive eligibility criteria. The text highlights real-world cases showing HASS contributions to driver education, collaboration across disciplines, and practical innovation. 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The humanities and social sciences – the poor relations of innovation policy  \n– have been pioneering new and sophisticated paths of research and collaboration between theorists and policymakers. But no-one in government seems to be looking.  \nThe idea of an innovation system is that there is something systematic about it. My worry about Australia’s innovation system is that its most systematic feature is its exclusion of the humanities, creative arts and social sciences (HASS) .  \nToo many of Australia’s policy settings overlook the potential of the humanities, arts and social sciences to contribute to the national economy and well-being.The R&D tax concession specifically excludes research conducted within these areas. We need to change an out-dated view of innovation based on the smokestack industries of the last century. It would require the government to revise the way allowable research is defined in the Income Tax Assessment Act at Section 73B 2C(f) .  \nIn a recent response to an inquiry on this matter, the Commonwealth’s position was explained.To qualify for the concession,R&D must be‘systematic,investigative and experimental’. The activity must involve‘an appreciable element of novelty’, a‘high level of technical risk’,and‘be carried on for the purpose of acquiring new knowledge (whether or not that knowledge will have a specific practical application) or creating new or improved materials, products, devices, processes or services’. Apparently it is believed that, although ‘the Government is aware that some work undertaken in the humanities, arts and social sciences field can be vibrant’, these criteria don’t apply to them. The kicker is that ‘there is a concern that if the criteria for activities eligible for the R&D tax concessions were  \n28 Oh, the Humanities!, Stuart Cunningham  \nbroadened to include humanities, arts and social sciences, then there would be calls from many other sectors to similarly include their activities as being eligible and this would have serious cost implications for the concession’. So there – if we lower the portcullis for you types, who knows what might get in!  \nIn our innovation system, as in most, the humanities, creative arts and the social sciences, at best, are thought of as a kind of‘handmaiden’to the powerhouses of science, engineering and technology, which in turn feed the growth businesses which deliver rising standards of living and consequential social benefits.At best, HASS might help us to understand the consequences of moving to a knowledge-based economy, but they could never lead such change or contribute as equal partners with their colleague sciences.  \nBut the evidence suggests otherwise. Here are a few examples – some of them from precisely the kinds of ‘impractical’areas governments seem to have given up on as sources of real-world innovation.  \nNRMA Motoring and Services teamed with humanities researchers Sarah Redshaw and Zoë Sofoulis at the University of Western Sydney to develop a program that aims to promote safer driving practices amongst young and inexperienced drivers by introducing an innovative cultural approach to driver education. It’s called Transforming Drivers. Driver self-image  \nvol 49, no 1 & 2, 2007  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S R E V I E W  \nand resultant behaviour is strongly influenced by peer culture collaboration with other disciplines, both science-based and and a saturated media and advertising environment, and stand- social-science based – contribute tangible benefits for busiard issue driver training has never taken these supervening ness, government and industry which any innovation","cbCaiovqTmwlbuVX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiovqTmwlbuVX","pdf",73840,"English","# Australia’s innovation system out of kilter\n## R&D tax concession exclusion of HASS\n## Evidence and examples of HASS-led innovation\n## Interdependence of STEM and HASS sectors","[{\"question\":\"Why does Stuart Cunningham say Australia’s innovation system is out of kilter?\",\"answer\":\"He argues that the system’s most systematic feature is the exclusion of the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences (HASS), despite their ability to drive innovation and collaboration.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the R\\u0026D tax concession affect research in HASS fields?\",\"answer\":\"It specifically excludes research conducted in these areas by applying eligibility criteria such as systematic, investigative and experimental activity, and an element of novelty and technical risk.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence does the text provide that HASS contributes to real-world innovation?\",\"answer\":\"It cites examples like cultural approaches to driver education and interdisciplinary collaboration, suggesting that HASS can demonstrate tangible benefits for business, government, and industry.\"}]","Oh, the Humanities! - Stuart Cunningham | PDF",1792081020]