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Turnbull's 'ideas boom' overlooks our largest group of potential entrepreneurs

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageStudents could be Australia's largest group of entrepreneurs.AAP/Lukas Coch

It is refreshing, encouraging and even exciting to see the $1.1 billion package of innovation initiatives announced by the Turnbull government. Almost anything that is proactive would have been a great improvement over the past few governments’ relatively lame efforts....

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