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		<title>Canberra out of touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Example – politicians’ salaries The Remuneration Tribunal&#8217;s recommendation for huge pay rises for politicians has been accepted without amendment. It involves a 31% pay rise for PM Gillard and huge increases for ministers, shadow ministers and backbenchers. Even the top departmental heads get an extra $200k. Public servants down the ladder are actually poring scorn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1375&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s defence industrial policy for national security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arvin Jelliss (Ottawa) has forwarded an interesting item by Tim Page president of Canadian Association of Defence &#38; Security Industries (CADSI). Harper government has taken steps to rebuildCanada&#8217;s defence and security brand internationally e.g. Canada First Defence Strategy. Government also commissioned a special report on innovation and defence procurement from an expert panel &#8211; Canada [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1373&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Seville conference sponsored by the OECD, European Commission and Government of Andalusia in November was instructive at numerous levels. Rod Brown of the Cockatoo Network gave a paper proposing that Spanish and EC stakeholders start getting serious about linking with clusters in Asia,North Americaand elsewhere via the Sunrise Project.  Conference highlights were: Sectors that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1371&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive Cities in the 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Brian Roberts has informed us of the release of his latest work, co-authored with the late KyeongAe Choe. The book is basically about clusters inAsia and it is an absolute treasure trove! The background is that economic challenges in developing Asian countries are now more complex &#8211; urban populations are growing at great cost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1369&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blueprint Mississippi: Capitalizing on the Creative Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CraftNet Sketches has alerted us to a document that is very timely in view of the need for many regions to find new growth areas. The Mississippi Economic Council has developed a collaborative vision for moving the state’s economy and community forward &#8211; known as Blueprint Mississippi 2011 it has led to goals and recommendations on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1367&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rural not synonymous with economic decline, says OECD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Huge regional variations in economic and social conditions within a country require a rethink of the way governments design policies to boost growth and jobs, says a new OECD report. The economic crisis has hit some areas far harder than others. The OECD’s first Regional Outlook calls on policy makers to pay greater attention to regional factors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1365&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial Transformation Research Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a new $236 million program to harness university expertise to retool manufacturing and create new skilled jobs. The plan is to: Sponsor up to 20 research hubs in fields such as engineering, communications, nanotechnology, metals, food, energy, textiles, building and automotive. Fund up to 50 training centres, putting 600 PhD students and postdocs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1363&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biodiversity Fund The Biodiversity Fund will invest around $946m over the next six years to help land managers store carbon, enhance biodiversity and build greater environmental resilience. It funds land managers to restore, manage and better protect biodiversity on public and private land – and to provide support for emerging opportunities in the new carbon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1361&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investigate a Tilt Train says Silverhawk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The feds are moving to phase two of the $20 million feasibility study for High Speed Rail between Brisbane-Sydney-Canberra-Melbourne. The phase one report by AECOM puts the construction cost of the proposal at between $61 billion and $108 billion – which is a huge figure in anyone’s language. The sectional breakdowns are a little more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1356&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Industry Minister Carr’s demotion a big error</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PM Gillard has been under huge pressure to assert her authority and her latest ministerial reshuffle was clearly part of this. Her announcement of the new arrangements was peppered with phrases like ‘I have decided’ or ‘I am committed to’. Rarely did she use the term ‘we’.  The big shock however was the demotion of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=investmentinnovation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1886463&amp;post=1354&amp;subd=investmentinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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