Oh well, The people in charge, not clear if they are here or live in another country have been saying that since the sixties.
None of the fundimentals for that are in place. Innovation policy in Australia for decades is about blowing hundreds of millions of bucks a year on unsaleable entry level tech. That is, stuff that can't be turned into any sizeable business by the nature of its potential market share. Priority always goes to some twinkly one-off spanner/widget rather than things more substantive like a toolkit. For example, in NSW alone, after blowing what must come close to a billion bucks since 1995, there hasn't been the creation of a single (one would expect a handful) of sizeable computer or software companies. We get nothing. And products that have a chance of spilling over to neihbouring countries are vetoed. Atlassian, is the one exception I know of from overseas to this. So we have one. But nothing on the hardware front. Medium and large sized internal tech business are not on the plan for NSW and are not wanted. Business that do get to this level go very quiet. So as not to attract govt attention. Talk such as '1% of the internal market for widget x' probably gets you put on the terrorist watch list or equivilent. It's normal talk in London, Munich or downtown NY. 'Why only 1%?' is the more likely responce there. On 1/18/12, Constructiv <[email protected]> wrote: > Would love to see Australia's strong economy take advantage of that success > by investing in the businesses of tomorrow. The innovators and > entrepreneurs that will build businesses of the future. > > I'd love to see the funding community, both Angels and VC, evolve and > mature in Australia to a point where Aussie's stop looking at Silicon > Valley as the destination of choice, but rather Sydney or Melbourne as the > place to be. > > It's likely going to take some time and some high-profile local success > stories to make this happen. While we are constantly up against the 20 > million problem, with the power of the internet, our potential audience for > products and services is worldwide. > > -- > 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 > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
