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About the Book
Australia is a country committed to lifestyle and recreation. We have a great record of innovation, but much of it is commercialised overseas.
We need a vision for our future. Can business leaders can play a bigger role? Business is the major platform for wealth creation (and therefore prosperity) in Australia. But based on global indices, our performance is average. What can we do to improve it?
In Innovation in Australia: Creating Prosperity for Future Generations, Ben Kehoe discusses how Australian businesses can improve their rates of collaboration, commercialising our innovative Australian ideas here, rather than shipping them offshore, and how this can increase the prosperity of our nation.
Some IMPORTANT questions
Is Australia:
• an intellectual property hub (where our intellectual property is generally licensed or sold offshore)?
• a business incubator (where any business of substance is sold to the highest bidder)?
OR
• a business leader in some value-added industries, capitalising on the billions we have spent on R&D over so many years?
• a nation that has transformed itself from a service economy to a serious, high- technology industry hub for Asia and the world?
About Ben Kehoe
AUTHOR, STORYTELLER, BUSINESS THOUGHT LEADER
HUSBAND, FATHER AND GRANDFATHER
Ben Kehoe has worked for four decades at the coal face of Australian business as a social pioneer, storyteller, change agent, management consultant and business owner. His real work is working with business leaders to “make stuff happen”. Working with the chairman, CEOs, and leadership teams, he focuses on the core questions an organisation must answer to address their potential with integrity. He works with them to address the real issues that stand in their way-prioritisation, accountability, resistance and fear.
His work supports leadership teams in creating the future: creating new markets, toppling big players, securing competitive advantage, managing high growth and boosting profitability. In all of this, the issue of innovation is paramount.
Ben is a husband, father and grandfather, a student of business and life, a jogger, skier, art collector and ballroom dancer. Over the last decade, he has been exploring social media and its impact on business and the world at large.
Book Reviews
Professor Sandra Harding AO
… a view from the Australian business trenches, with a focus on what we can and should do to enhance business and elevate national prosperity.
Ian Frazer AC
The argument is put that one day, when the bubble bursts, we’ll be hungry enough, but likely it will be too late.
John Wagner
He has in simple terms named many of the challenges and problems with the Australian business culture.
Euan Murdoch
We owe it to future generations of Australians to embrace the learnings from Ben’s book.
Phil Ruthven AM
Ben has written a superb book – Innovation in Australia – that I recommend we all read. It is thoroughly researched- full of interesting facts …
Mel Bridges
This is the first book I have read that really nails the shortfalls in how Australia has managed, or better still, mismanaged our ability to …
Simon Mordant AM
The issue which resonates with me most is the total lack of vision in Australia.
David Fagan
… offers major insight for readers. innovation is important but how we innovate now is derivative of how we’ve innovated in the past
Michael Powell
Australia urgently needs to get back on the innovation journey, develop a vision of what it wants to be in 20,30 or 50 years and …
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compulsory reading
This book should be compulsory reading for anyone interested (and concerned) about what the future holds for our children and grandchildren.
