Counterintuitively, small steps taken by people who trust each other can achieve the impossible. The relevance to innovation is uncanny.

On my reading of the collaboration component of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, I see incentives for academics but hardly a thing to change business.

Andrew Botros gave the keynote speech to The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering's Governors Program luncheon, 17 June 2015.

This month’s Australian Journal of Public Administration publishes research by Andrew Botros on digital government, open data, and open innovation.

You may not know that it took Einstein 14 years to become known the world over. If you’re involved in the communication of science or engineering, here are key lessons to be learnt.

Andrew Botros is an ambassador for Link Festival 2015, combining Design + Technology + Social Change, taking place on 16 & 17 February at Federation Square, Melbourne.

Communication is power, and providing access to communication is one of the key design problems of human development. Technology increases that power; without open access to technology, immense power imbalances emerge.

By all means go and see The Imitation Game, but make time to read more about one of the most important minds of modernity. There are good lessons to be learnt about innovation, design and collaboration.

Great ideas are like great art: they can be used and studied over and over, reaping large and concentrated profits for their owners. It is essential to develop and broaden the capabilities of engineers for greater output and more competitive ideas.

Engineers should have the breadth of skill, from mathematics to computing to domain expertise to communication, to make outstanding statisticians.