Webinar: Australia’s National Semiconductor Moonshot: Securing Semiconductor Talent
On 15 November 2023, ASPI hosted a webinar with the authors of its 2023 report, ‘Australia’s national semiconductor moonshot: securing semiconductor talent’. Bronte Munro, Dr Robert Clark and Alex Capri joined Dr Alexandra Caples, Director of Cyber, Technology and Security at ASPI, to discuss how Australia can develop a talent pipeline to support a sovereign semiconductor manufacturing industry.
The discussion explored global trends in friend-shoring between allies to address talent pipeline and supply chain security, and examples of effective public-private partnerships that Australia can draw on to develop its own capability. A staged funding approach to kick-start Australia’s manufacturing industry via the National Reconstruction Fund as an initial stimulus for foreign investment was also discussed.