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title: "Technological Breakthroughs the Key to Our Future Prosperity"
summary: |-
  If the next generation of Australians is to enjoy a better life than their parents, Australia needs to push for more technology and innovation, not less.
date: "2011-11-09"
issues: ["National Competitiveness"]
authors: ["Robert D. Atkinson"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2011/11/09/technological-breakthroughs-key-our-future-prosperity/"
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# Technological Breakthroughs the Key to Our Future Prosperity

In this Op-Ed for *The Australian*, Rob Atkinson stresses Australia has an opportunity to lead the world by crafting a national strategy focused on driving productivity through IT innovation. Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is already doing leading-edge work to develop an IT-based digital technology strategy. But if these and related efforts are to be successful,they’ll need to be fully supported by government

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2011/11/09/technological-breakthroughs-key-our-future-prosperity/*