Companies have a lot to gain from implementing external corporate innovation programs such as sending their employees on work placements in open labs.
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If post-secondary institutions want to continue to play a key role in innovation and entrepreneurship, they must transform for the better.
Melbourne’s Innovation Districts were launched a few years ago, but the impacts of COVID-19 have added urgency to having places to trial new ways of urban living.
Digital technologies have created new opportunities for businesses in sub-Saharan Africa, but they must be aimed at meeting the sub-continent’s needs.
E-commerce companies should deliberately build systems that are structured to provide supportive business environments for small and medium enterprises.
The population growth is in the west, but most of the jobs are still in the city centre. Three major development proposals could help reshape Melbourne in ways that help overcome this costly mismatch.
The growth of creative hubs is good for innovation but it may also widen a digital and economic divide in Indonesia.
Innovation is focused on regional centres that have research and development institutions, but more than 150 regional areas have potential to match this innovation, research finds.
Universities can lead the way in creating opportunities for the economic development of regional cities and outer metropolitan areas under new City Deals.
Any government policy focused on innovation must recognise the importance of proximity.
Innovation precincts are great, but what Australia really needs is a creative space that brings thinkers and doers together to help spark start-ups.
More than 60 Australian government reports have identified direction, planning and leadership as keys to creating an innovative nation. Here’s five things other countries have done to lead the way.
An advocate for the power of innovation to improve the world offers some cautions.
Libraries are warm, dry and safe spaces with free Internet, which many people need. But academics and researchers in the 21st century can get along very well without them.
It is crucial that institutions around Africa do not shy away from robust and critical debate while continental university rankings take shape.
Start-ups have always found it hard to navigate compliance requirements, but this time regulators are listening.
Science has often come to the rescue when it comes to the world’s big problems, be it the Green Revolution that helped avoid mass starvation or the small pox vaccine that eradicated the disease. There…
Silicon Valley is a bit like the ancient city of Babylon. A confluence of the right geography, right timing, and the right mix in the melting pot allowed them both to thrive. Even the mythological status…
Most agree that it’s worth knowing more about the world and everything in it. Research, in that sense, is intrinsically valuable. But for pragmatic governments, intrinsic scientific or scholarly worth…
Labor has finally delivered the detail of its much-awaited vision for shaping Australian industry beyond the mining boom. But will it deliver? In a two part series, UWA Professor Tim Mazzarol examines…
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaii
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Visiting Professor, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Entrepreneur, investor, NED, Australian National University
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Professorial fellow, Monash University
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Analyst: R&D Partnerships, CSIRO
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Professor of African and Development Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Professor, Director: School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam
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General Manager Policy and Research, Regional Australia Institute
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Strategic Design, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of E-Learning and Dean of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology