INTRAPRENEURSHIP WITH QUEENSLAND’S CHIEF ENTREPRENEUR, LEANNE KEMP
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t’s an exciting time to be an entrepreneur, intrapreneur and innovator. New technologies and new ways of thinking are creating opportunities for industries to leverage existing strengths, delivering significant improvements in operations. Innovation is the process of turning new ideas into value, in the form of new products, services, or ways of doing things. Innovation is a deceptively complex activity that goes beyond creativity and invention to include the practical steps necessary for adoption. New innovations tend to build on earlier versions and, in turn, lay a foundation for others to be built on top of them. It is now widely accepted that innovation fuels the majority of the world’s longterm productivity and economic growth – and that innovative firms significantly outperform noninnovators, in terms of both revenue and employment growth. Queensland has a strong community of entrepreneurs and that innovation
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