The last year has seen a much-needed focus in Australian politics and public discourse on disruption and innovation. Finally, we began moving away from talking about digging things out of the ground, and started taking a good look at the intelligence and innovation economy. Tax credits for early stage startups, a focus on surviving from failure, and other measures (along with much of the general chatter) focused heavily on small businesses. Would-be pundits were conjuring up images in the public’s eye of a few hackers around a laptop striving to be the next Zuckerberg or Jobs.
