UNLOCKING AUSTRALIA’S
PEOPLE POTENTIAL

Harnessing emerging technologies to supercharge productivity

Emerging technology has significant potential to increase productivity, leverage Australia’s growing technology sector and deliver more inclusive job opportunities into the future.

Critical technologies can be used to augment human capacity and capability but there are challenges to widescale uptake for individuals and organisations. Many of the technologies are not mature or ‘fit-for-purpose’ with significant barriers to adoption and implementation in the workplace.

The Augmenting Ability Cooperative Research Centre (AACRC) will provide essential knowledge and guidance for industry, directly support the commercialisation and adoption of Australian innovation, and help build the skills and training resources required to drive a productive workforce.

The AACRC will create a collaborative, innovative ecosystem to fast-track and adapt existing and emerging human-centric technologies that preserve, prolong, and enhance human capability and capacity, investigate the impacts and risks in this rapidly developing digital ecosystem and address fundamental questions around adoption.

The AACRC Opportunity

With worker and skills shortage, increasing operational costs and pressure for increased competitiveness and enhanced sovereign capabilities, critical industries in Australia
urgently require greater productivity and performance in the workplace.

Rapidly emerging digital technologies are rightly seen as a solution for these pressures particularly where they can augment human abilities to enhance the way we think, move, live and work.

Australia’s fledgling technology sector, an industry dominated by start-ups and small to medium enterprises plays a key role and would significantly benefit from investment & innovation.

Many businesses, organisations and communities need new technologies to enhance productivity through human capacity and capability building but have limited scope to exploit innovation synergies that exist and can be easily pivoted across sectors and applications;

nor have they the collaborative vehicle to build the evidence base, critical knowledge, guidelines and technical solutions to better understand the effectiveness and the risks of these novel technologies.