Fostering Innovation in Our Rural Landscapes

Bright Ideas

The challenge
Victorian producers, industry and policy-makers need to respond more quickly and effectively to emerging problems and market opportunities in the agrifood industry.

The strategy
To create an environment where new ideas are generated, explored, expanded, put into practice and rewarded. To bring together leading thinkers with scientists and regional communities to challenge existing ideas, explore new ones and catalyse their uptake.

The project

• Explore the concept of regional innovation incubators around the state to provide a forum for generating new ideas and community input and feedback.
  
  
• Develop a program to incorporate outside thinking and expertise to challenge assumptions and ideas, initially of ORL projects but later of other DPI programs.
  
  
• Develop a strategy to identify the new and emerging technologies that will be most relevant to the agrifood sector.
  
  
• Develop a program to encourage and reward entrepreneurial thinking and behaviour.
  
  
• Develop a mentoring strategy to take viable ideas through to new products and services.