The NSW government must become an equity exemplar by applying a new “gender lens” to its innovation funding, according to a group of experts that found a decade of state interventions had failed to shift the flow of capital and opportunity to female innovators.
A year-long inquiry into women’s entrepreneurship in New South Wales found little progress has been made on structural equity challenges despite other jurisdictions making headway.
The findings, which criticise a “fixing women” approach across scattergun programs, have been submitted for consideration in the Innovation Blueprint, which will deliver new innovation policy and has already flagged a “less transactional” approach is coming.
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