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Innovation as strategic imperative: Australia’s path to asymmetric advantage

Australia confronts a strategic paradox.

EDITOR'S LETTER

Innovation as strategic imperative: Australia’s path to asymmetric advantage

Australia confronts a strategic paradox. We inhabit an Indo-Pacific in which state actors possess numerical advantage, territorial proximity and resources that dwarf our own. We cannot compete through mass. 
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EDITOR'S LETTER

Innovation as strategic imperative: Australia’s path to asymmetric advantage

Australia confronts a strategic paradox. We inhabit an Indo-Pacific in which state actors possess numerical advantage, territorial proximity and resources that dwarf our own. We cannot compete through mass. 
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FUJITSU

Quantum and the coming end of the compute advantage

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Bridging the chasm: Why Australia’s defence innovators need access to venture and commercial capital

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Delivering capability at the speed of relevance

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