The Australian Computer Society (ACS) have
announced that their new Sydney head office will include an
accelerator for tech start-ups. The new office will be in
International Tower 1 Barangaroo, Sydney. This is a very new, very modern, very tall tower-block, at odds with the traditional location for an innovation centers. Such centers are traditionally in old, re-purposed industrial and commercial buildings.
Fishburners is in an old Sydney warehouse,
Spacecubed is in a former bank in Perth,
Canberra Innovation Network in an old medical building,
River City Labs an old department store in Brisbane.
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Further afield the
Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at
University of
Cambridge is in an old hospital (over-refinished in post-modern style). This is not just a matter of fashion: innovation depends on people
meeting and learning to work together.
The trappings of corporate culture can disrupt innovation and not in a good way.
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