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The Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday 7 December of a National Innovation and Science Agenda is a welcome development. However, the challenge will be for the government to turnaround our National…
On Tuesday 24 November Bruce Billson, the federal member for Dunkley announced his intention to leave politics after the next election. His decision to do so came on the back of his demotion from the role…
Business incubators are organisations that provide support to start-up and early stage businesses through the provision of facilities, mentoring and coaching, training, networking and seed capital financing…
The benefits from UWA’s decision to host controversial climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg must be weighed against the costs.
This is the second article on the topic of entrepreneurial ecosystems that build on a series of white papers developed by the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand Ltd (SEAANZ). The…
The final communique of the 2014 G20 Leaders’ Summit called for enhanced economic growth that could be achieved by the “promotion of competition, entrepreneurship and innovation”. There was also a call…
As the 2014 G20 Leaders’ Summit wound up over the weekend the final communique outlined a range of goals. These encompassed enhancing economic growth, reducing unemployment and poverty, boosting trade…
Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the most common businesses found across most of the world’s economies. Although the definition of what an SME is varies across nations, the most widely used…
Universities play a key role in a country’s national innovation system (NIS). As I discussed in a previous article, Australia’s universities perform well by international benchmarks. The level of Australia’s…
Australia’s long term international competitiveness will depend on its ability to develop an ‘innovation-driven’ economy. This is an economy built on high-value added, R&D intensive, high-tech industries…