Australia’s innovation capability is visible and counted. What is harder to see are the arrangements that allow a place to put that capability to use. This Insight introduces Hidden in Plain Sight, released 22 October 2026, and opens a series that follows the book’s argument Part by Part.

At a time when the language of innovation is everywhere yet the architecture for delivering it is so often absent, the need for honest, grounded, and practical thinking is urgent. The goal of this book is not to predict the future, but to inform and provoke those with the responsibility and agency to shape it.