With all the thoughts about birth timing and such, thought I might mention that Richard Hayes and I have a new piece in the latest Melbourne Review on Australia’s future innovative performance. Here is a press release. This is all related to our continued work on the Innovation Index. The basic message: it is OK but there are worrying signs.
[Update: here is a link to the paper (without cartoons and nice formatting)]
Core Economics 
Do post the piece if you’re able to. Also, I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the tradeoff between stronger IP protection and free-riding off US innovation. Presumably a higher ranking on the Index isn’t invariably good for growth.
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