Exploiting Knowledge

A highly educated workforce, innovative approaches by government, universities, business and the wider community - and ready access to significant markets demanding products and services based on R&D - have combined in Canberra to produce an economy driven by the advances of knowledge.

Canberra's institutions are playing a key role in establishing an environment that attracts and retains the skilled, creative workers needed to sustain a knowledge economy. Our universities and research institutions play a central role, providing cutting edge research with immense commercial potential.

The Australian National University has established a number of National Institutes to raise national and international awareness of the remarkable range of academic activity at the University.

National Institutes at the ANU:

• Institute for Indigenous Australia
• Institute for Asia & the Pacific
• Institute for Bioscience
• Institute for Environment
• Institute for Economics & Business
• Institute for Engineering & Information Sciences
• Institute for Humanities & the Arts
• Institute for Health & Human Sciences
• Institute for Physical Sciences
• Institute for Social Sciences & Law

Further information about the ANU's National Institutes can be found at: http://ni.anu.edu.au

According to the Institute for Scientific Information, the Australian National University (ANU) ranks in the top 100 in the world in eight subjects, twice as many as the next best Australian university.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has an international reputation for the quality and significance of its research and development. The CSIRO ranks in the top one per cent of world scientific institutions in 11 of 22 research fields.