The Australian Innovation Community

We have posted Larry Quick’s paper “Creating 21st Century Capable Innovation Systems: Unleashing Creativity through Open Platform Innovation” on the AussieInnovation wiki.

The fundamental open-source idea and supporting discussion isn’t the only impressive part of this submission; the desire to innovate the whole innovation system and look at the assumptions behind it is also worth a look, and consideration.

The paper was written in 2004, and is as relevant now as it was then — if not more so — with the rise of several social networks supporting his assertions about mutual benefit and collaborative systems. Larry Quick is a West Australian business consultant, heading up Larry Quick & Associates a company with a client list including Holden, Telstra, Chiba and the West Australian Government.