[LINK] Google Proposals for Encouraging Young Australian E-trepreneurs

[Tom Worthington]

The new  not-­for-­profit organisation "StartupAUS" has released the 
report "Crossroads: An Action Plan to Develop a Vibrant tech startup 
ecosystem in Australia" (15 August 2014): http://startupaus.org/crossroads/

The report makes some useful recommendations, such as Young Entrepreneur 
Scholarships and a national network of student start-up incubators, 
national learn to  code promotion program, tertiary  scholarships 
program to drive participation in CS, national network  of 
entrepreneurship centres.

The report is deficient for not proposing formal education programs for 
entrepreneurs. Australian universities have a number of schemes to 
encourage students and researchers to apply their skills to setting up 
new businesses. However, these tend to be extra-curricular activities, 
not part of formal courses. I suggest this should be a core part of 
courses, acknowledged as a respectable subject for academic analysis.

The report focuses too much on on the import of staff from the USA, 
rather than training Australians and working with growth areas in Asia. 
The the report does not make clear who funded it (presumably Google 
Australia), or who wrote it.

Also it would help if the report was provided as a well formatted web 
document, not badly formatted PDF. Here is an extract from the report's 
action plan summary, reformatted by hand to HTML: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/04/proposals-for-encouraging-young.html



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