Resilience now guides Australian economic and industrial policy. This Innovation Insight draws on evidence from 109 innovation ecosystems across 35 countries to show that resilience is a designable property of innovation and industrial ecosystems, built through anchors, governance, ownership and infrastructure. It closes with an agenda for the new National Science and Resilience Council.

Has resilience displaced innovation as the organising idea in Australia’s science, technology and innovation policy? Guest writer Rajesh Gopalakrishnan Nair suggests the proposed Resilience and Science Council marks this policy turn. In this extended essay, Rajesh traces the resilience narrative from Federation to the present and argues that the neoclassical reading of resilience, a bounce back to equilibrium, may cost Australia the innovation policy that Ambitious Australia

Australia's industrial policy is shifting with the Future Made in Australia Act. However, there are concerns about potential inefficiencies