Australian innovation has come a long way over the past decade, but innovation never sleeps and the world is changing rapidly, so we aren’t there yet. Our past has been about trying to catch up to Silicon Valley, but our future is about inventing our own innovation system.

In the digital sector, Australia has caught up, but the future needs us to be just as obsessive about smart materials, cleantech, quantum processors, superconducting power electronics, synthetic biology, climate-resistant crops and coral – the critical hardware that the software empowers, including human machine collaboration.