The global leader in digital core analysis for oil and gas exploration is a firm linked to the UNSW and ANU. The company which introduced large scale multi-player computer games-with technology that recently gained dominance of the Chinese market-is the creation of a suburban inventor and his wife. The company with the world's foremost wind-mapping technology is run by a Canadian and a Pommy who met in Canberra. Their stories are just a few that Peter Dawson has, about what can be achieved when science, invention, government and business open doors for each other. Just one city-often discounted as a soulless government town-produces dozens of amazing examples of worldwide business success, based on entrepreneurial support for innovative technology. His book is also a pointer for bureaucrats, boffins and business people-wherever they may be-to the advantages of imaginative collaboration. It searches for the formula that produces the winning results. And in the process it also finds some mindsets that squander opportunity.

本書は単なる成功事例の集積ではない。著者は、行政都市キャンベラの深層に潜む知性と情熱の奔流を鮮やかに描き出している。科学者と起業家が交差する瞬間に生まれる化学反応は、まるで冒険譚のような輝きを放ち、読者の知的好奇心を強く刺激する。 特筆すべきは、官民学がいかにして創造性の扉を開き、世界を変えたかという本質への鋭い洞察だ。停滞を批判し、協働の可能性を称える著者の視線はどこまでも熱い。読み進めるほどに、既存の枠組みを打ち破り、未来を切り拓く勇気が胸に灯る一冊だ。