So which one should be the priority here? Being very biased but "Leveraging the entrepreneurial potential of our immigrant population through better designed immigration policies" would be one of my top priorities. Making it easier for top talent to come to Australia and start their own business.
Right now the US is seeing a huge brain drain, immigrants are returning home.. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/why-silicon-valley-immigrant-entrepreneurs-are-returning-home/ Should Australia be capitalizing on this and luring these entrepreneurs to its shores? Would love to see a bit of discussion on this or on any of the points above. Research papers like this are fantastic, but unless the government acts on proposals it'll be much of the same...btw, it's been a while since the Lifeguard paper was put out there by this very community. http://www.siliconbeachaustralia.org/lifeguard/index.html Has the brain drain already occurred in Australia and is it too late? Jonathan On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Kev <social%melon.com...@gtempaccount.com>wrote: > interesting new paper by http://ussc.edu.au/ > > sept 2011 > > http://ussc.edu.au/s/media/docs/publications/Wood_ussc_report_Sept_2011.pdf > > the conclusions from the paper: > > " > > The role of innovation and entrepreneurship is expanding both > economically and > geographically, and our understanding of these changes and their > ramifications is still > incomplete. Nevertheless, if Australia is to capture the once in a > lifetime opportunity provided > by the transfer of economic supremacy from West to East, we must > urgently tackle the missing > links in the entrepreneurial supply chain from research to industry. > > This will require: > > • Building an entrepreneurial culture that supports risk rather than > penalising failure > > • Embedding entrepreneurial skills and thinking within our education > system, in particular > through involvement of entrepreneurs in curriculum design and learning > from experiences > overseas > > • Ensuring the talent that we need for our knowledge intensive > industries can move > seamlessly between public and private sector organisations and can > operate in an > international context > > • Moving away from supply driven training of mediocre scientists and > engineers to meet > industry demand for top quality STEM graduates with skills in > innovation and > entrepreneurship > > • Leveraging the entrepreneurial potential of our immigrant population > through better > designed immigration policies > > • Removing barriers to commercialisation within universities and > promoting fluidity of > movement between universities and the business sector > > • Committing greater levels of funding to support mobility of S&T > personnel internationally > and the ‘study abroad’ experiences of university students > > • Addressing inefficiencies in government bureaucracy that have been > identified as major > concerns to business leaders > > • Ensuring that we are active and visible contributors to > international efforts to improve > measurement of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation > > • Above all we need to collaborate as a nation rather than compete > > " > > Kevin Garber http://twitter.com/ke_ga > Co-founder / CEO 90n - we are hiring - http://89n.com/content/careers > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
