Australia needs to embrace the entrepreneurial spirit: Wyatt Roy on Policy Hack

Startup founders, venture capitalists, scientists, academics and policy makers came together over the weekend to come up with ways to strengthen Australia’s innovation ecosystem. Policy Hack, a partnership between Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy, accelerator BlueChilli, and lobby group StartupAUS, was an opportunity for stakeholders to develop and pitch policies that would help foster […]

StartupSmart 18 October, 2015

Startup founders, venture capitalists, scientists, academics and policy makers came together over the weekend to come up with ways to strengthen Australia’s innovation ecosystem.

Policy Hack, a partnership between Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy, accelerator BlueChilli, and lobby group StartupAUS, was an opportunity for stakeholders to develop and pitch policies that would help foster the growth of innovation industries in Australia.

These are the ten ideas that are being discussed at today’s #PolicyHack: pic.twitter.com/isnUNupgdS

— Denham Sadler (@denhamsadler) October 17, 2015

We’ll have full coverage of the event on StartupSmart on Monday afternoon, but in the meantime check out the video below where entrepreneur and investor Steve Baxter chats with Roy about whether or not Policy Hack was a success and what’s next for the program.