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  1. 'Labs aren't the only ones with ideas' - Australian Financial Review Opinion
    Opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review by Australian Business Foundation Chairman, Stephen Mills
  2. 'Key to unlocking the mysteries of innovation' - Australian Financial Review Opinion
    Opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review by Australian Business Foundation Chairman, Stephen Mills on 21 November, 2009.
  3. 'Better Regulation: Driving Productivity and Growth': Speech by The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP, Minister for Finance and Deregulation.
    Mon Feb 15 2010

    THE HON LINDSAY TANNER MP

    MINISTER FOR FINANCE AND DEREGULATION

    MEMBER FOR MELBOURNE

    Address to Australian Business Foundation, 15 February 2010, Sydney 

    BETTER REGULATION: DRIVING PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH 

    Response to OECD Review of Regulatory Reform in Australia 

  4. INNOVATION & PRODUCTIVITY:The Australian Business Foundation
    Mon Feb 15 2010

    The productivity imperative

    • Australia’s productivity growth has declined in the last decade to 1.4%. This compares unfavourably with the Hawke/Keating reforms of the 1980s-1990s where productivity growth hit 2%. Turning around Australia’s productivity growth is a key imperative detailed in the Government’s 2010 Intergenerational Report.

    • The ‘big-bang’ productivity reforms of the Hawke/Keating government featured the floating of the dollar, tariff cuts and a concerted microeconomic reform agenda. These prescriptions have run their course and can’t just be repeated today.

    • The equivalent ‘big bang’ agenda to lift productivity today is innovation. But, not innovation defined narrowly as science, research and technology. The kind of innovation that counts is action that transforms Australia’s business capabilities, skills and competitiveness.
    Business transformation is key to productivity gains
  1. Systems thinking, market failure and the development of innovation policy: The case for Australia

    This latest piece of scholarship from Professor Mark Dodgson, Professor Alan Hughes, Professor John Foster and Professor Stan Metcalfe, all of whom are close associates of the Foundation, argues the case for alternative approaches to innovation policy in Australia.
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  2. Productivity, Creative Destruction and Innovation Policy
  3. Diaspora and the Global Economy members only

    How can Australia better leveraging our vast reservoir of ideas, insights, contacts and connections?
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  4. The Hidden Human Dimensions of Innovation - Hargraves Institute Presentation
  5. The Strategic Research Priorities for the Australian Business Foundation 2009
  6. The Future Revisted: A review of Alternative Futures: Scenarios for Business in Australia to the year 2015
  7. Engaging China: The realities for Australian businesses