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The iPhone changed the game not because of the technical details of the device, but rather as a result of its creators’ imagination and courage.
Demonstration farms are a key way in which new knowledge can be transferred to farmers around the world.
We don’t know much about the origins of most human achievements – scientific and otherwise. Like evolution, does progress occur as random insights are selected for or against?
The digital pin-ups’ business models actually inhibit serendipity and, indeed, innovation by absorbing entire markets into the sealed-off space of their platforms.
The concept of laboratory schools has raised interest in recent reports (CNIRE, François Taddei…). Will they manage to bridge the gap between teaching and research?
Rethinking work is crucial for industrialised and emerging economies, where job losses are being felt even in the presence of substantial, although diminishing, economic growth.
It’s just not in their business interests to ignore climate change.
The climate crisis demands not only green technologies, but a completely different approach to economic development.
Uganda needs to boost manufacturing and exports to realise the ambitions listed in its social and economic development plan.
Our approach to economic growth has done more harm than good and must be be replaced with more appropriate goals.
When Malcolm Turnbull released his innovation agenda, the arts were missing. But Australia’s fashion industry is a true innovator, comparable to French and Italian fashion houses. It’s time to recognise this at home.
A lack of “breakthrough” moments in innovation may be caused by the increase of specialised workforces.
Australian farmers and graziers have historically been against dingoes on their lands. But in a bid to adapt to changing conditions, some are embracing the predators and their potential.
Budget 2017 has allocated A$100 million to boost innovation and advanced manufacturing. But can it fill the hole left by automotive industry closures?
The federal government spends over A$10 billion plus a year on industry policies but we have little idea how effective they have been. Programs are regularly dropped before we even know if they work. Think…
Redressing the balance can start from the bottom up.
Suburban areas feel infrastructure stress most acutely. Having to deal with severe inadequacies, suburbs offer fertile ground for infrastructure experimentation and innovation.
Big data, analytics and predictive models will play the main role in the the next wave of e-government innovation.
The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa’s legacies of underdevelopment.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Visiting Professor, Imperial College Business School, and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor and Founding Director of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy, Queensland University of Technology
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, The University of Western Australia
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Researcher in Entrepreneurial Creativity, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Secretary for Science Policy at the Australian Academy of Science, and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
