Honours Committee nominations for peerages, which are created directly by the monarch. Honours Committee The Honours Committee is a committee within the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom formed to review nominations for national honours for merit, exceptional achievement or service. Twice yearly the Honours Committee submits formal recommendations for the British monarch's New Years and Birthday Honours. Members of the Honours Committee—which comprises a main committee and nine subcommittees in speciality areas—research and vet nominations for national awards, including knighthoods and the Order of the British Empire. The honours system is an ancient one, particularly in Britain; Æthelstan,
Review of the National Innovation System Centres (CRC) program (paralleling the more specific O'Kane Review) and the Research and Development Tax Concession scheme, and it aimed to review "the coherence and effectiveness of existing Government support for innovation", to "identify gaps and weaknesses in the innovation system" and to "develop proposals to address them". The process began in February 2008 with a panel meeting and the panel Chair's speech to the Australian Industrial Research Group, continuing in March with a series of Stakeholder Consultation meetings for research & academia, government, and business & industry, held in each of the State capitals in association with a "Call