John Ratcliffe
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59 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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That's incredibly important.
You want to be somewhere that has relatively strong civic infrastructure rule of law, all of the government's protections around IP and so forth, and a...
highly talented, mobile, flexible workforce.
When you look around at the places where that can occur within Asia, there are a number.
I mean, you can find that in Tokyo, you can find it in South Korea, you find it in Singapore, and certainly you can find it in some of the Australian cities.
But I think what makes Brisbane unique is
the mix of those cities combined with some of the things that we don't necessarily think traditionally around.
If you think about Brisbane has got the largest hospital network in the southern hemisphere at the Hurston Health Precinct, where you've got pure integration between public and private hospitals, research institutes, universities, all co-located in one place.
And you can do that within 12, 15 minutes of a global export hub at the Brisbane airport and the ports precinct.
And you can do that in a population that's hyper diversified.
So if you want to run a clinical trial, if you want to take your product and you want to be as close as you can be to the great science, you want to be as close as you can be to the patients, and then you want to be as close as you can be to the markets.
So when we look around at the different places where we can participate,
Brisbane actually ticks all of those boxes and yet it's incredibly underserved with research infrastructure.
There are some amazing pieces of large scale infrastructure, but places where we're able to play, for example, a life science incubator at QIMR, we're actually able to plug into that gap that takes the leading science through to, you know, through to the markets and the broader Asian ecosystems.
Firstly, I think when you define life sciences, we all think about vaccines and pharmaceuticals and the big drug companies and so forth and healthcare.
And there's quite a blurred line between what is life sciences and what is healthcare, where we sort of think of that line as being where people go to get treated versus the innovation side of science.
What makes life sciences pretty exciting is the crossover across technologies.
It's not just about drugs.
It's about the crossover between robotics and med tech.
It's the crossover between vaccines and some of the things that are incredible research that's being done out of places like the Translational Research Institute, TRI, or UQ, which has maintained its spot as the top university in Queensland, in the country, actually.
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