Creating health care value together: a means to an important end

ustralia’s outgoing Chief Scientist Ian Chubb issued a researcher “call to arms” in November A2015, when he identified Australia as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country in which the research and business communities were least likely to engage with each other: “[given] the rhetorical tailwinds blowing over decades. you would have to conclude that we have a very big anchor (our culture) or no sails (our collective will)”. This Supplement supports the importance of this link and argues that the mismatch in a nation that does well in research but poorly on translation can be overcome— but only with our collective focus, new approaches to engagement, and a willingness to capitalise on a governmental direction now firmly rooted in innovation.