Leaders Speak - Education “The private sector has an increasingly important role to play in early career development which starts with companies providing professional support to our tertiary student population. Australia should not rely on our universities alone to produce sufficiently qualified graduates. Vocational skill requirements in many industry segments, especially those focused on STEM disciplines, have evolved sufficiently to demand involvement in workforce preparedness from employers to maxim- ise job productivity and employee satisfaction for these new recruits.” Russell Palmer , CEO, Yokogawa Australia “To achieve its maximum economic potential, Australia needs to define what its innovation cul- ture is. Traditional top-down management structures in our large corporate institutions are now incongruent with the basic tenet of innovation, especially when we have a young generation of entrepreneurs who are our country’s best and brightest innovators. There are five chief innovation enablers in the broad economy – private industry, academia, R&D, government and finance. While they are each powerful, putting them together as an integrated and harmonious whole will drive exponential growth for Australia’s innovative outcomes. Although in Australia we have surely pro- gressed, we need to encourage more cross-disciplinary collaboration, where everyone benefits, to properly harness our innovation potential. If the human race, and Earth are going to achieve long term sustainability through mining the moon and exploring space resources, we must establish an education system that not only nurtures skills and experience in STEM disciplines but also encour- ages creativity and imagination.” Jeff Lang , Managing Director, Titomic
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