Notes & Materials

• De-Mystifying Innovation
  Professor Jonathan West
  On 27 October, 2005, the Australian Business Foundation hosted a forum at Macquarie Bank. The forum featured two expert speakers on national innovation systems: Professors Keith Smith and Jonathan West. They discussed the nature and extent of Australia's innovative capacity, and the polices that are required to enhance it. A summary of the key points of this forum on De-mystifying Innovation can be found below, as well as the Powerpoint slides used by both presenters.
• De-Mystifying Innovation - Key Point Summary
  Dr Matthew Steen, Policy Adviser - Tax & competitiveness, NSW Business Chamber
  Innovation is a non-linear, collaborative and uncertain process; it is not merely the commercialization of science and technology.  Innovation is evident in low-tech industries, as well as in the high-tech, frontier industries.
• Innovation and the Knowledge Economy in Australia
  Professor Keith Smith, Chair in Innovation, School of Management, University of Tasmania

  In 2004 Professor Keith Smith researched and reported on how the knowledge economy was creating value in Australian industry, and how companies were innovating to gain a competitive advantage.  His paper The Knowledge Economy in the Australian Context then paved the way for his follow up report in 2005 Promoting Innovation in Australia: Business and Policy Issues in which he looked at the opportunities and challenges facing businesses and governments in fostering innovation to generate business value.