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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.
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?
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.
… offers major insight for readers. innovation is important but how we innovate now is derivative of how we’ve innovated in the past
The issue which resonates with me most is the total lack of vision in Australia.
This book is a compelling read for business, government, or anyone interested in innovation and business prosperity.
This book is about harvesting the rewards of the IP developments made in Australia for Australians.
The argument is put that one day, when the bubble bursts, we’ll be hungry enough, but likely it will be too late.
We owe it to future generations of Australians to embrace the learnings from Ben’s book.
He has in simple terms named many of the challenges and problems with the Australian business culture.
This book should be compulsory reading for anyone interested (and concerned) about what the future holds for our children and grandchildren.
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