Policy, technology, education and economy

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:21:21 GMT

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, in a blog entry he wrote about meeting Tony Blair:

So if you want to attract companies like Sun to your economy, focus on investing in education, in your students, and in your leaders. Focus on educating your policy makers as to why you're committed to education - not to build presitigious institutions, but to invest in progress, academic as well as economic. Focus on the value of broad based talent as a competitive weapon, don't be distracted by cost reducing labor.

I.e. policies like Workchoices, focussed entirely on driving wages and skillsets down, just don't help the economy. Value-add, don't value-subtract.

Remember this is the same Government that has massively disinvested the education sector in Australia.

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Policy, technology, education and economy