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Why can't Australia make mRNA vaccines? Because we don't make enough 'deep technology' companies

  • Written by: Julian Waters-Lynch, Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organisational Design, RMIT University
Why can't Australia make mRNA vaccines? Because we don't make enough 'deep technology' companiesPfizer/AP

Caught out by its strategy to bet on COVID-19 vaccines that could be made in Australia, the federal government is now scrambling oto manufacture mRNA vaccines locally.

Its “approach to market” strategy has effectively asked companies how much government money they need to do so. But even with subsidies, this plan will take...

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