Hi David, Only just saw this earlier email of yours.
Just for your information: I do not work for the government nor is it any of the stuff on www.innovation.gov.au my website. I also think you misunderstand the relationship between winning a war and owning a share in a company, but I don't really see a point in starting a discussion on that. I do however agree that innovation should lead towards the development of new products. Helping the government decide how to direct money towards achieving that goal is what this review is all about, so let's be nice and constructive about it. Regards, Silvia. On 22 Jul, 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Silvia Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all, > > > If any of you have made a submission to the National Innovation System > > Reviewhttp://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx, > > I'm on a panel discussing this topic and I'd like to find out what > > people's concerns were. > > Well you'll be rich soon - most people worth their salt in the > Australian Government find it pretty easy to siphon off the > development funds. Just one way I've heard of is.. a) find not enough > (good) projects to invest in.. b) find a recognised fund manager.. c) > move the funds to via the fund-manager to singapore where it can be > collected less a commission... d) collect your money and go. Best > thing is - all above board... nothing illegal in that. That's what > happened with the $700 million grants from NOIE a few years ago... > happy if you prove me wrong.. > > But seriously... > > What good is innovation if it isn't directed towards good quality > saleable products ? > > That's basically what the world wants.. nothing else... > > The fact is that Australia has had so many opportunities to be a > player in the global technology market but our Government has thwarted > those opportunities for its people. > > For example, look at our involvement in Korea.. now a technology > powerhouse... Australia was there - during the Korean war. We sent > troops to Korea and a lot of our soldiers get killed. We win the war > and had the whole country at our disposal. > > Our government then walks away - following orders I guess. At the same > time, other governments, a bit more loyal to their citizens, supply a > stream of their own people into Korea and fund them with money to > rebuild (and own) the country. > > 20 years later Korea is transformed from an Agricultural backwater to > high-tech powerhouse. All the other participants share in 25% > ownership of the countries industry. > > Except for Australia of course.. we get to buy some flowers for some > missing loved ones who were told they were doing it for their country. > > Exactly the same thing happened in Japan in WWII.. with unconditional > surrender Australia could have owned 25% of Sony, Mazda, Mitsubishi... > all or any of them... what do we own now - about 0.0001 of 1%.. quite > shocking.. > > And now, China's market is booming... so what does Australia do about > it apart from commodities ? nothing... absolute zilch... > > Send our young people there? give them our endorsement like the > British or Germans ? i'm not hearing it.. > > We must not kid ourselves into believing the government spindoctoring. > Our government is anti-innovation - and I am not picking up how any of > this is actually getting Australian products into the worlds products > stream. > > David > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs:http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
