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Let’s stop kicking the innovation football around

  • Written by Beth Webster, Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
imageIf we want to stop kicking the innovation football back and forth – we need to move industry policy to a more prominent place in the political agenda.www.shutterstock.com

The federal government spends over A$10 billion plus a year on industry policies but we have little idea how effective they have been. Programs are regularly dropped before...

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