AI becomes productive when firms complement it with skills, quality data, management capability and supporting institutions. Turning AI into Productivity draws on a case base of 110 place-based innovation ecosystems and four weeks of site visits to show where Australia is strong, where the gaps are, what seven recommendations could do to capture the opportunities, and how they could be implemented. A UTS research project funded by the Google Foundation. Available from the Ama

The Great Western Royal Hotel, now the Hilton London Paddington, opened in 1854 as part of Brunel's plan for a single journey linking hotel, railway and steamship. The building illustrates the complementarity principle in two dimensions. Functional complements build capability and performance. Reputational complements, or conferral, build credibility and attraction. Australian precinct policy attends closely to the first and much less to the second. Lasting advantage appears