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This chapter describes the key definitions and concepts that are necessary to underpin conversations and debate about innovation, regional development and regional advantage. The chapter also introduces the concept of ‘innovation for regional advantage’: a new approach for regional Australia to leverage its strengths for the national good, whilst retaining regional value in a truly ‘sustainable’ sense.
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The inquiry report, its submissions, and a related information is available from http://www.pc.gov.au/projects/inquiry/compol
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The Australian Labour Party and the Independent Member’s agreement, http://www.minister.regional.gov.au/files/Regional_Agreement.pdf
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Regional Development Australia 2011, ‘About Regional Development Australia’ http://www.rda.gov.au/about/index.aspx
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Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government, 2011, submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications’ Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network, February 2011, 15 pages, available online at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/ic/NBN/subs/Sub169.pdf
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Professor David Adams, Keynote address—constructing regional advantage, Fifteenth National Conference of SEGRA, Geelong, October 28, 2011.
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Oxford online dictionary;’ http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/innovate?q=innovate
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Professor David Admans, Keynote address—constructing regional advantage, Fifteenth National Conference of SEGRA, Geelong, October 28, 2011.
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Council of Australian Governments Meeting Communiqué, Canberra 13 February 2011.
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House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications, Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network, submission by the Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government, March 2011.
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Kinnear, S., Charters, K., Vitartas, P. (2013). An Introduction. In: Kinnear, S., Charters, K., Vitartas, P. (eds) Regional Advantage and Innovation. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2799-6_1
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