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August 28, 2009
Cities are recognized as major economic drivers. Innovation is the answer to finding a way out of a financial & broader crisis (and it is recognized by most economists [alongside productivity] as the only true source of sustained economic growth). Cities that innovate now tend to outperform economically later.
Is Adelaide an innovation city ? Does it support innovation? Does it have a culture for start-ups --a Silicon Alley or Beach as it were?
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Telstra, Adelaide, 2009
An example of innovation from here. In order to meet the energy reduction targets that are set as countries or as cities, as states and counties in any of the schemes that are put in place, then web need to address the building sector. In the urban areas, we see as much as 60%, 70%, 80% of the energy consumption in the building sector as opposed to the other two sectors, which would be transportation and the industrial sector.
Adelaide ranks lowly.
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