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<h1>The Travels of the <br> Techno-Freedom-Fighter</h1>

The Travels of the
Techno-Freedom-Fighter

A Capital Knowledge Economy
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What I would like to do is to create "business clusters" around centres of knowledge in Canberra. These clusters will be located close to universities like the ANU and research centres like the CSIRO, and will help to commercialise the world-leading innovations and technologies created at these institutions.

As part of the plan, the CAP will re assess ACT government laws and taxes, in order to reduce barriers for small technology startup firms. If this is not done, the knowledge and information will "leak" to where demand is highest and the barriers are lowest.

At ANU, two technologies stand out as examples of Australian ideas that are internationally competitive:

Seeing Machines is an award winning company that designs vision based human machine interfaces, and grew out of research work at the ANU. It now employs a considerable amount of people and has a client list including some of the world's biggest car manufacturers and their suppliers.

The Solar sliver cell technology is a unique design for flexible, inexpensive and efficient solar cells, developed by Professor Andrew Blakers and Dr Klaus Weber of the ANU. Sliver cells are being commercialised by Origin Energy, who have built a pilot manufacturing plant in Adelaide.

The second stage of the project would utilise urban design to maximise human capital - a key component of value in a knowledge-based economy. Measures to be included would focus on housing, lifestyle and communications infrastructure which would allow people to work from home. Cultural and social design issues that improve cultural openness and social connections within a community would also be considered. Such measures are key to the informal information flows that help a knowledge economy to thrive.

what I mean is that in order to retain and build upon our existing high quality of life in Australia, we need to develop our knowledge economy. Australians are great at coming up with innovative, practical solutions, but we are terrible at making money from these ideas. Business clusters will help Canberra to develop our great ideas and get the rewards in the marketplace.

June 27, 2008 | 10:59 AM Comments  0 comments

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