Former mining boss Charlie Bass and surgeon Peter Santa Maria are among the growing number of people in Western Australia looking to make innovation a commercial reality.
Charlie Bass has made a fortune out of the mining industry, but like many Western Australians he is frustrated by the state’s lack of economic diversity.
“It bothers me that we are just so dependent on resources,” Mr Bass told Business News.
Image: BUILDING BLOCKS: Charlie Bass with Carolyn Williams at the newly opened CERI Building in Nedlands. Photo: Attila Czaszar
