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NSW Innovation and Productivity Scorecards

Our unique scorecards provide a snapshot of the state's innovation and productivity performance.

About the IPC's Scorecards

Every two years, the NSW Innovation and Productivity Council (IPC) takes stock of our state’s innovation and productivity performance.

The result? The NSW Innovation and Productivity Scorecard.

The Scorecards gives you the hard facts and figures that show where NSW stacks up to Australian and international counterparts, when it comes to matters like productivity, economic growth, how we educate, win funding for research, skill up, attract talent, create and support new, innovative businesses, and set ourselves up to scale them. The insights help inform NSW Government policy development and decision-making.

The 2024 Scorecard comprises an interactive dashboard (access below) where you can explore data for 35 metrics, and an accompanying companion report which explains what the data means.

2024 Scorecard Dashboard

Explore the new 2024 Scorecard Dashboard created in Power BI to enable greater interactivity with the data.

2024 Scorecard Companion Report

The Scorecard Companion Report provides further context for each metric and insights on longer-term trends and implications. The report discusses three key lessons from the Scorecard findings.

Previous Scorecard Reports

The 2022, 2019 and 2018 Scorecards can be viewed as PDFs. The 2019 and 2018 Scorecards can also be viewed in TableauExternal Link, a data visualisation platform.