Transcript: 2013 Australia Germany Innovation Forum - Keynote summary

Transcript

24 January 2013

>>Peter Tesch: We need to attract international investment, we have to foster research collaborations with leading partners around the globe and with the best sources of innovation, and of course Germany ranks right up there with the world’s best.

>>Göran Roos: Australian firms are exceedingly good at reactive problem solving. In other words, you come to them with a problem and they will solve it. They are very, very good at that. Whereas if I go to the Germanic part of Europe, the strength is about strategic innovation, it’s about looking what is the problem that is worth solving for customers that have the need and the resources, and then working long term towards that, whether the customer knows about it or not. So there is a kind of an entirely different approach in these areas, and that means that one is extremely good at providing long term opportunities but not that good at the reactive, quick response and agility on short term fixings. So the combination of these two when it happens is fantastic.

>>Peter Tesch: Germany and Australia work very closely together. It is consistently in the top three or four of our research and scientific partners measured by the number of joint publications and we are very keen, the Australian government, to drive that element of the relationship even further and to deepen those ties.

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