Innovation

Swanson Reed, in partnership with Wrays, has just released the 2015 discussion paper based on the InnovationCAFE workshops. The paper, Innovation in Australia Building a Prosperous Future Through Innovation, is based on four innovation café workshops held by Swanson Reed and Wrays in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in July and August 2015. InnovationCAFE is a series of national workshops […]

The 2020 Strategy outlines CSIRO’s approach to improving Australia’s record in innovation and helping Australia respond to global changes and digital disruption. The vision is to become “Australia’s innovation Catalyst, boosting Australia’s innovation performance”, whilst creating value for customers through innovation that delivers positive impact for Australia. The year innovation master plan was developed through […]

Queensland’s startup sector is set to welcome a $76 million injection, included in the $180 million State Government suite of reforms, nicknamed Advance Queensland. Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk has stated that the government has the intent on, “delivering a new era of opportunities to Queenslanders”. The injection will provide critical capital funding to Queensland-based, early-stage ventures. […]

Sydney, You’re invited… Three Pillars for a new Australia Productivity | Commercialisation | Innovation Culture If Australia is to be a sustainable, innovation-led economy, three interrelated pillars need to be aligned. Each session will be presented by leaders in their field and outline the issues, examples and opportunities relevant to each pillar: Productivity – Marco […]

An excellent and informative article written by one of our speakers at the innovationCAFE 2015 Perth event, Professor Tim Mazzarol. “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 for strategies to reduce […]

I am pleased to invite you to join us for innovationCAFE 2015 that will focus on Three Pillars for a new Australia. If Australia is to be a sustainable, innovation-led economy, three interrelated pillars need to be aligned: Productivity Commercialisation Innovation Culture Each session will be presented by leaders in their field and outline the issues, […]

With troubled commodity prices, higher employment costs and a diminishing manufacturing sector, Australia’s immediate future doesn’t look bright. Unlike the United Kingdom, the United States and most of the developed world, Australia has no current innovation strategy or policy. If we don’t act quickly to develop a plan to support innovation, particularly SME’s in the […]

Is everyone an innovator or is nobody one? Every day we dream up new systems and processes on how to make our lives more efficient. But we are rarely pretentious enough to call ourselves innovative. Even Einstein said “imagination is more important than knowledge.” So does that mean I submit an R&D Tax Incentive claim for […]

Australia is a legitimate and impressive global contributor to fundamental discovery research, producing 3% of the world’s research publications with only 0.3% of the population. Additionally, the 2013 INSEAD Global Innovation Index ranks Australia 11th in terms of innovation input and 32nd in innovation output. However, when these figures are converted to innovation efficiency ratio, […]

Australia’s future prosperity and sustainability is dependent on improving our ability to build disciplinary bridges. These bridges will enable the convergence of knowledge and skill sets to create innovative solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges. Collaborative innovation is at the forefront of creating an innovative culture for a better Australia. Large companies are turning […]