Comments on: Australia Glaringly Absent From World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies

By: Nick Lothian

Nick Lothian — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:19:51 +0000

I can’t think of any (large) Australian company that deserves to be there. Lets face it, though - there aren’t many Australian companies which have a large enough world-wide profile to have a chance of getting on that list.

Amongst those companies which are large enough - well.. it’s not like mining companies are exactly prime candidates for inclusion either.

News Corp made it, though…

RIM makes the list because of the high proportion of business week readers who use a blackberry.

By: metarand

metarand — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:52:20 +0000

Discounting the potential for UScentricity we still don’t seem to make the radar. There may be some great Australian companies out there, such as those you mention, but this is about true innovation coupled with economic success weightings.

@Roger - I’d love to hear of companies you feel have been wrongly left off.

By: Roger Kermode

Roger Kermode — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:30:57 +0000

Given that this is a business week article it’s hardly surprising that the companies are US centric either by virtue of where they are domiciled or where a large customer base is. One would have thought that we’d have seen Macquarie Bank, Cochlear, Resmed, or even an Atlassian amongst the list.

The absence of these and other great Aussie businesses should not be construed as a lack of innovation in Australia.