Western Australia needs a chief entrepreneur to promote its innovation locally and outside the state, opening up the current “insular” ecosystem, stakeholders have told a state government inquiry.
StartupWA’s chief executive Jason Balchand called for the role to be established at a hearing for the Public Administration Committee’s ‘Inquiry into innovation in Western Australia’ earlier this month, pointing to Queensland’s and South Australia’s chief entrepreneurs as models.
He said a …
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