Any innovator will know what it is like stumbling through the system, learning about the grants process, looking up relevant programs, wading through related government websites and fighting to find like-minded people. It shouldn't be that hard. A few friends in the right places can make all the difference and that's what www.AussieInnovation.com is all about.
This is a community website designed to pool the collective knowledge, mistakes, lessons and experience of innovators from around Australia and connect it together with forums, news that the community can vote up and down, company and people profiles for networking, a central set of links to other web resources and an Innovation Wiki to tie it all together.
In a future post I'll discuss the specific features of www.AussieInnovation.com but for now, The biggest issue on the innovation agenda at the moment is the Review of the National Innovation System. Its open call for submissions gives us a rare chance to have our ideas heard throughout every level of government, and it is an opportunity we would be wise to take, not just to be heard by policy makers but to be heard by each other.
Submissions close tomorrow so this is your last chance to participate. I know that the closing date is close, but if you head over to our site we have a list of the submissions already posted, discussions on what else we need, and a submission template to help get you going.
Come together. Be heard.
Regards,
Robert Spencer,
AussieInnovation.com
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Who is aussieinnovation.com?
The new innovation site looks very interesting, and it's an impressive start, having collated so many of the submissions to the review. So well done to them.
Is there any more infrmation about its founders, its backers, its organisation, and its mission?
One of the functions of the site is to collect proposals for innovations, but there is no detail about IP policy, nor any systems or methodologies that are used to develop the ideas.
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Re: Who is AussieInnovation.com?
Hi Stephen and thanks for your question. I'll answer your questions briefly here and also link through to more complete information that exists in various places on our website, in the interests of brevity and completeness:
I created http://AussieInnovation.com (AI.C) out of frustration with the Review's lack of interaction. I believed that a review of Innovation in the 21st century should use modern communications technologies, so after a few emails to the Panel that went unanswered, we just went ahead and did it.
* http://aussieinnovation.com/who-created-aussieinnovation.com
We do not advocate any specific methodology, AI.C is there to simply encourage community involvement in discussion of Australian Innovation, through the wiki and forums.
* http://aussieinnovation.com/what-you-can-do-here
The forums are similar to this site and are intended for simply for discussion of ideas prior to documentation or during the collaboration process, while the wiki is for the actual collaboration and review of others thoughts. A wiki is an facility that enables collaboration on document creation and knowledge sharing, or to put it another way "A wiki is designed for people to contribute to it. It is designed so that anyone who can see a gap in the information or an error can add something to make it better. This is a community project and, unlike a chain, we are as strong as our strongest link."
Some more information about the AI.C wiki and how to use it can be found at:
* http://aussieinnovation.com/about-wiki
* http://aussieinnovation.com/wiki/Help:Getting_Started
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
Our general IP policy is one of attribution; a wiki is a collaborative space and while ownership of copyright remains with the author, there is an implicit licence to edit and add to the material published.
I hope that answers your questions.
Regards,
Robert Spencer.
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