CCIAP President Connie da Cunha attends the Inaugural National Innovation Summit

The National Summit to be held in Sydney, Australia on 17-18 September 2016 will bring together all levels of Australian businesses and different colours of politics, as an important step to discuss and have meaningful dialogue with the aim to successfully transition Australia’s economy for the future, beyond the “innovation” buzzword.

“Optimising Australia’s R&D landscape; reforming our approach to risk and entrepreneurship; transforming our scientific, digital and technological capabilities; and growing the industries of the future – these are all complex, weighty challenges, demanding not just significant investment, but genuine structural change. At the individual business level, too, innovation is increasingly essential for survival, but notoriously difficult to drive, measure and direct”, says the Summit’s organiser, the Australian Financial Review.