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Innovation and Ecosystems

Simon White | Specialist is public policies and programs that support innovation and local entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Business innovation

Strengthening regional innovation systems

In early March 2018, the Western Australian Government launched its New Industries Fund to ‘support venture creation and accelerate business growth to diversify the Western Australian (WA) economy and create new jobs’. A part of this fund is allocated to regional communities. I have been commissioned to assist in working

climate-resilient entrepreneurial ecosystem

Growing WA through Innovation – A Response

Growing WA through Innovation is a report of the Economics and Industry Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly. Released on 30 June 2016, it presents the Committee’s findings of its inquiry into the ways technological and service innovation can be fostered to expand and diversify the Western Australian economy.

What Innovation Looks Like

Innovation certainly is the thing these days. Seems like everyone’s talking about it, we all want it and we all think it’s a good thing for our economy to do and our government to support. Last week I attended an engaging session on innovation run by Deloitte. It

The Value of the Micro-Business Sector

Small business is often touted as the engine of growth. But what of the smaller segment of this sector, the micro-business sector? A recent publication of the RSA caught my eye. Entitled ‘The Second Age of Small’ this report by Benedict Dellot (June 2015) considers the economic impact of micro

Startup communities

Simon White | Brief article on what makes a start-up community.

Two centres for social innovation

Creating physical and virtual centres for the promotion of social innovation appears to be an emerging trend. Here are two examples. In Toronto, Canada, the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) is a Toronto-based social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation. CSI’s shared workspace model offers office amenities

The enabling city: places of social innovation

“Social innovation thrives on the ideas and efforts of social entrepreneurs and creative individuals whose socially conscious work contributes to environmentalism in a variety of ways”, writes Chiara Camponeschi in her 2010 e-book, The Enabling City; Place-Based Creative Problem-Solving and the Power of the Everyday. Here, the sources of innovation