The global leader in digital core analysis for oil and gas exploration is a firm linked to the UNSW and ANU.
The company which introduced large scale multi-player computer gameswith technology that recently gained dominance of the Chinese marketis the creation of a suburban inventor and his wife.
The company with the world's foremost wind-mapping technology is run by a Canadian and a pommy who met in Canberra. Their stories are just a few that Peter Dawson has, about what can be achieved when science, invention, government and business open dorrs for each other.
Just one city- often discounted as a soulless government towen- produces dozens of amazing world-woide business success, based on entrepreneurial support for innovative technology. His book is also a pointer for bureaucrats, boffins and business poeple-wherever they may be- to the advantages of imaginative collaboration. It searches for the formula that produces the winning results. And in the process it also finds some mindsets that squander opportunity.