Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Investing in innovation and economic growth in a down turn is strategically clever. This means that when the world economy improves, Australia is ready to take full advantage. Slowing growth in China may be affecting our mining industry and royalties but there is cause for optimism.
There is a long list of Australian industries which lend themselves to the commercialisation and export of their innovation and smarter services. That is where our future economic growth and jobs will come from and where our focus should be in partnership with industry and our key research universities.
How do we do it? Peter Beattie suggests we start with the future of mining whose key jobs growth will come from exporting mining services.
Investing in innovation and economic growth in a down turn is strategically clever. This means that when the world economy improves, Australia is ready to take full advantage. Slowing growth in China may be affecting our mining industry and royalties but there is cause for optimism.
There is a long list of Australian industries which lend themselves to the commercialisation and export of their innovation and smarter services. That is where our future economic growth and jobs will come from and where our focus should be in partnership with industry and our key research universities.
How do we do it? Peter Beattie suggests we start with the future of mining whose key jobs growth will come from exporting mining services.
