The Australian has two stories today that mention Commercial Ready. In the first Peter Switzer oberves that the Rudd Government was "mean" this year and that:
Innovators creating hi-tech businesses contribute to improving productivity, which drives down costs and, you guessed it, brings inflation down.
In the second, Tony Kaye talks about a former MJA client, Fluffy Spider Technologies, and their wasted effort in preparing a grant application and includes remarks from Ivan Kaye (a relation?) of BSI suggesting that:
Kaye says he has no doubt the Government will make other grants available, but instead of them being a generic Commercial Ready scheme it will focus on areas where it believes Australia has a competitive advantage.
So, where do we have a competitive advantage?
Are we back to Porter's Competitive Advantage of Nations?
Are we back to technologies that will enhance the identification and extraction of mineral resources?
Are we counting on Agricultural technolgies?
I will expand on this further when I examine some of the work CEDA has recently been doing.
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