Advance Queensland program doesn’t approach innovation from right direction

But the education system must do much more. It must inculcate and inspire an innovative frame of mind.

To which end the government would be better off using most of the $180m simplifying government legislation and regulations, and reducing taxation, to encourage and accommodate the new and the novel.

The balance could be spent producing a book on our hero(in)es of innovation, distributing it to Queensland shools, and making it part of the history/studies of society curriculum.

Government has a role in innovation, but it is only a supporting role. The real role is done by culture, and for that we need to celebrate the stories of those who have already achieved, then copy them.