Futureproof now. Disrupt.Innovate.Influence Innovation - The role for Higher Education Professor Attila Brungs, Vice-Chancellor, UTS In this short document, Professor Attila Brungs discusses the challenges facing higher education in a time of unprecedented disruption and technological change. He notes that over 40% of Australian jobs are likely to disappear in the next 10-15 years, and that Australia lags behind in collaborative innovation. Previous reviews of innovation have had a narrow focus on commercializing research, failing to prepare students and institutions for the challenges of disruption. Higher education must take a leading role in innovating to futureproof and influence change.

1. Futureproof now.
Disrupt.Innovate.Influence
Innovation - The role for Higher
Education
Professor Attila Brungs, Vice-Chancellor,
UTS

2. Disruption
Era of unprecedented change
• Hard to recognise
• The better you are at the
old world the harder to
transition
• Even existing customers are
the last people to recognise
disruption
• Overestimate change in the
short term and
underestimate it in the long
term

3. The challenges
• More than five million jobs, almost 40 per cent of
Australian jobs that exist today, have a moderate
to high likelihood of disappearing in the next 10
to 15 years due to technological advancements.
• Australia ranks 29th out of 30 in the OECD for
collaborative innovation
• 60 reviews on Innovation in the last 15 years…
• Narrow, research based focus on innovation – i.e.
Boosting Commercial Returns of Research

4. http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/learning/