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INNOVATION

Cochlear keeps innovating

Rami Banna speaks to Open Forum's Kate Williamson about the Cochlear Nucleus 5 System; winner of an Australian International Design Award 2010.

Time to turn off the Simpsons

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Why do Australians take the worst and leave the best of what the USA has to offer? 

2010 Australian International Design Awards Supporting Innovation

The Hon. Richard Marles MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry on the role of good design and intellectual property in commercialising creative Aussie ideas. Read his blog >>

Good News TV takes the OZ SI Camp Changemaker Quiz

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Sohail Dahdal, creator of Good News TV takes Open Forum's SI Camp Changemaker Quiz.

Think Social and Compete

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March is a big month in Australia with the launch of Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge on March 1 and the Social Innovation Camp on March 5-7.

The Importance of Conversations Across Sectors for Social Innovation

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Leaders from the private, public and not-for-profit sector need to talk to one another to create opportunities to collaborate for social innovation. It can make everybody's job easier, more fulfilling and more effective.

How I Became a Chocolate Merchant

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Politely refusing to accept the stale specimens on offer became a business opportunity. 

The Eels Star, the Family Tragedy and the Innovation

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Commercialisation allows innovations to help more people.

Mass Collaboration is Driving Specialisation

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It has been 235 years since Adam Smith identified the importance of specialisation, now mass collaboration is taking the potential for innovation to a new level.  

The Experiment that May Change the World

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Today a small group of scientists and a technician at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics plan to do a test run of a nuclear fusion device that *may* one day forever change the way we produce electrical power!