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Innovation is the new in-the-black

Is the innovation agenda really capable of delivering jobs?

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

Lexicon legend and communications extraordinaire Malcolm Turnbull has done well from his recent ‘innovation’ agenda. It’s a lovely sounding word for one thing – just sings of economic progress. The soothing effects of news headlines about an ‘innovative economy’ almost outweigh the panic effects of headlines about Australia’s $37 billion deficit.

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Catherine Priestley is associate editor of Sydney University’s Mon Droit magazine

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