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.
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.
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!
Former Director of the Federal Government Industry Research and Development Board Olga Sawtell shares some of the common sense secrets of picking, and supporting, winners in the innovation stakes.
During the time it took us to forget about the importance of geography, the field transformed itself. Spatial data is now at the forefront of innovation.