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To embrace our future as an innovation nation, we'll need to learn from the past

  • Written by The Conversation
imageAustralians are not averse to taking risks.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

Australia has many successful, innovative industries, such as wheat, wool, beef, lamb and cotton. And Australians are not averse to taking risks. Our shrewd investments in chancy mining tenements have paid handsomely.

But we do not invest in areas in which we lack...

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