The winners were: The Innovative Regions Award is a new addition...

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The Innovative Regions Award is a new addition in 2015. John O'Brien explains, "We work with Australia's best emerging technology companies and those that succeed usually emerge from a supportive innovation ecosystem. We want to help grow and celebrate the best regions so Australia can generate even more world leading tech companies."
The inaugural winner was the Greater Adelaide Region with its 109 innovation programs, fourteen co-working spaces and eleven incubators was announced as the inaugural Innovative Region. Dr Felicity-Ann Lewis, Chairperson of Regional Development Australia Adelaide Metropolitan said, "Adelaide has worked hard over the last few years to understand and enhance our innovation ecosystem and has now achieved a remarkable level of collaboration and coordination across a rich landscape of support."
With all this success and at a time when the Government states that it is backing innovation it is ironic that there is no commitment to continuing to fund the Competition into 2016. At this stage, this means the end of what has been an incredibly successful program that, on the Government’s figures, has created over $250 million worth of economic value for $750,000 invested over five years.
The Principal Sponsor of the Competition for the third year is Autodesk, a leading software company that strives to help people imagine, design and create a better world. In addition to offering highly subsidised access to its design software through the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program, the company mentors Competition Finalists on how they can use technology to optimise product.