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 chief entrepreneur would serve as an “independent voice” for the state’s growing innovation system and sell its opportunities. The new role would act similarly to the state’s chief scientist, Professor Peter Klinken, but “with an entrepreneurial lens”.
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