Creative Capital

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.

About the Author

Peter Dawson is a consultant and writer. His book Creative Capital describes Canberra’s innovation ecosystem and the global businesses it has fostered. He also maintains a strong interest in business relations with Indonesia.

Peter Dawson works with small to medium-sized companies on strategic planning and management utilising Lean Thinking concepts (which derive largely from the Toyota Production System). His focus is on identifying what represents value to the customer, how the enterprise can best deploy its resources to deliver that value and thereby command the best margins of profit.