“Open innovation” isn’t a term you associate with Australia. We don’t even fund it anymore.
When we used to, it was called Innovation Exchange. But it collapsed. Listening to accomplished speakers highlighting this point at the recent Innovation Series event at Langham Hotel, I asked myself: “Why?”
Why, in a country as great as ours, are we so bad at collaboration?
We came up with the Victor lawnmower, Vegemite, Fosters and Greg Norman, and even managed, rightly or wrongly, to sell them overseas (except Norman, who went willingly and after that 60 Minutes thing, where Chris Evert sucked his toes, we willingly obliged).
To read the full, original article click on this link: Why is Australia so bad at open innovation? - Anthill Magazine
Author: Ben Flavel
