The Australian Innovation Community

One of the catalysts for the creation of this Australian Innovation Community was the Review of the National Innovation System. We helped gather (and workshop) submissions as well as discussing the issues they raised. Several months on, the submissions have been read and the preliminary findings compiled.

One of our founding members, Jeremy Byrne, was on hand at this year’s InnoFuture conference to see Terry Cutler speak about the green paper the day after its launch, and Byrne has since delved into the story behind the story.

His analysis can be found below. Welcome to The Wake of the Venturous…

• Part one: Context
• Part two: Recommendations
• Part three: Implications (available soon)

In a recent speech at the Melbourne Institute 2008 Economic and Social Outlook Conference, called New Agenda for Prosperity, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Kim Carr said that, innovation was “the only way a country with first-world wages and living standards can stay in the game.”

Anyone interested in making a submission should definitely have a read through the complete text:

• “ New Agenda for Prosperity“

The speech by Prime Minster Kevin Rudd to the New Agenda for Prosperity Conference, Melbourne University, not only highlighted his Government’s commitment to innovation but outlined in broad strokes its plans for long term economic change. These were centred on the three “P”s: “productivity, workforce participation and population growth.”

You can read the complete speech here:

• “Towards a Productivity Revolution, A new Agenda of Micro-Economic Reform for Australia“