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Here's 49 small communities innovating as well as the big cities

  • Written by Kim Houghton, Adjunct Associate Professor IGPA, University of Canberra
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Innovation is the highest in regional centres that have research and development institutions and there are only 26 of these in regional Australia. But more than 150 regional areas have potential to match this innovation, a new index finds.

In conjunction with the Regional Australia Institute we’ve developed an Innovation Index that maps the...

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