Location, location, location: what’s holding back an Australian ideas boom

"Brisbane has outperformed Sydney and Melbourne in a new Australian index that measures innovation performance at a suburb level. The index is designed to help policymakers better understand the characteristics that make some locations more innovative than others. Brisbane has five areas in the top 10 of the innovation index in 2014, substantially more than the much larger state capitals of Sydney (three) and Melbourne (two). At the same time, areas in the other states capital cities don’t even feature until position 28." Read more

Alan Duncan, Rebecca Cassells, Steven Bond-Smith The Conversation 23 Mar 2016