Andrew Leigh outlines government’s plan to boost Australian innovation
The assistant productivity minister will make his argument at Wednesday’s Tech Council breakfast.
Assistant Productivity Minister Andrew Leigh has rejected the stereotype of lone entrepreneurs driving innovation, describing tech advancement as a “team sport” requiring input from all sectors.
Delivering the keynote speech to a Tech Council and Capital Brief-hosted breakfast in Parliament House on Wednesday, Leigh will frame the government’s role in the concentrated tech industry as creating policy frameworks enabling “new entrants [to] introduce better products”.
Leigh will compare Australia’s tech innovation space to Formula One, a sport in which teams require a complex network of athletes, engineers and executives.
“At the end of the race, the drivers stand on the podium, but each of them know that they’re only there because of the work of their teams,” Leigh will say.
