Australia has world-class research and commercial companies. The challenge isn’t capability, it is competency. Policy settings place commercialisation responsibility on research organisations, bypassing Australian companies who actually know how.

The productivity conversation needs commercial voices While there has been a very long list of policy influencers vying for an invitation to the productivity roundtables, the list of who made it through the door reveals a striking insight into Government policy setting. The mix of experts diagnosing innovation are heavily biased towards academics, research institutions and industry associations. Commercial leaders in the room tend towards financial services and the investment sector - venture...

Innovation doesn’t cross the Valley of Death, companies do. We have built an ecosystem around project-based grant funding, and wonder why Australian companies struggle to scale globally.