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Digital disruption: STEM graduates and more regulation not the answer

  • Written by Jim Minifie, Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageThe Productivity Commission report is not a comprehensive plan of what government should do about digital disruption.www.shutterstock.com

A complacent government could easily adopt a wait-and-see approach when it comes to the effects of technology on our economy, but a report from the Productivity Commission advocates what governments need to do to...

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