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INNOVATION

  • The Hunter Central Coast Innovation Festival has been well supported through business, industry and government in the delivery of an exciting program for the 2009 Festival. We welcome our major sponsor GHD and look forward to a continued relationship to showcase the incredible diversity of innovation the region has to offer. We also acknowledge the role that the Hunter Economic Development Corporation has played in managing the project and securing important funding from the NSW State Government through the Department of State and Regional Development. Visit www.hccinnovationfestival.com.au
  • Innovation is an essential quality for success in today’s global marketplace, particularly in countries such as Australia which cannot compete on the basis of labour costs against many countries, particularly the rapidly-growing Asian economies.

  • The Hunter Region is embracing innovation as an important component of business and has a broad range of success stories, from small organisations developing one or two unique products or technologies to major international companies that invest millions of dollars into research and design to continually produce new and better designs that enable them to be at the forefront of global markets.

  • With an increasing emphasis in the Hunter on exporting, many business people are realising that by supplying the global marketplace they can have very successful and quite large businesses in even small niche markets

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