Entrepreneurship

A new report outlines how technology and green economic growth can supercharge living standards and resilience in NSW.

University students who have a startup idea may be eligible for one of 2,000 interest-free loans worth approximately $11,000.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the workforce forever – but it has brought opportunities as well as challenges, and fast-tracked the future to become the present, say experts from the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Business, Government and Law. Emerging leaders should be able to predict both challenges and opportunities – pre-empting the former and […]

The group will unite startups, universities, businesses and the investment community, and will help rollout the state’s innovation agenda, according to the Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Trade Martin Pakula.

Policy entrepreneurs transform policy ideas into policy innovations, disrupting the status quo of existing settings. What makes for effective policy entrepreneurship and what attributes, skills and strategies do you need? At a glance In paper for Policy Design and Practice, Michael Mintrom (Monash University) synthesises the research on policy entrepreneurship, providing insights for those who […]

The last decade has seen ongoing issues of gender inequity as well as arguably the golden age of female comics. From Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to Amy Schumer, what can these female comics teach us about policy making and entrepreneurship? At a glance In a paper for the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Christopher […]

Government faces plenty of challenges designing effective policies and services that deliver. So what happens when difficult problems get thrown to a big bank to tackle using business and tech smarts? The answers are refreshing and unexpected .

In a world of increasingly blurry markets, ‘fixing the budget’ is not the one and only issue of economic policy, write Professor Vishaal Kishore and Dr Pradeep Philip.

OPINION: Solutions to many significant social problems can often be found outside of the public service. One former government insider talks about the life-changing decision to look for answers elsewhere.

The idea of replicating the mythical low-cost innovation of a start-up in government is increasingly popular. But there are limits to what bureaucrats can learn from business, experts tell The Mandarin.