Australian innovation is quite simply nowhere near where it could and should be.
We look like a country well-equipped to be an innovation nation: a highly educated population, stable government, excellent infrastructure.
We are known for having people with brilliant ideas but last year’s Global Innovation Index ranked Australia 20th out of 126 countries. We’ve been weak in commercialising our ideas and we must get much better at strengthening collaborations between universities, research institutes, incubators, industry and government.
