Fostering Innovation: Managing the Challenges
Innovation is key to achieving a profitable and sustainable business but achieving innovation excellence is not easy and many organisations are not satisfied with their level of innovation.
Event details
Curtin Business School and DuPont cordially invite you to a breakfast event to celebrate innovation excellence and announce the inaugural DuPont Innovation Award winner.
- Date
- Thursday 27 October 2016
- Time
- 7:00 am to 9:00 am
- Venue
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Roe Street, Perth WA 6000
- Cost
- Free

The key ingredients of successful innovation are execution; the ability to harness market insights and create value; and providing the right culture by encouraging people to work together across boundaries.
At this exclusive event, Curtin Business School and DuPont bring together a balanced mix of academics and executives to discuss how to execute innovation and overcome challenges. We will examine:
- How innovation can be built into a business strategy;
- How innovation can be built into a business strategy;
- How to attract the right talent to sustain innovation initiatives into the future;
- What can be done to enable a sustainable and replicable innovation process;
- How to establish effective relationships between industry and academia to foster innovation.
About DuPont
DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) is one of 8 DuPont businesses. Bringing customers, the benefits of an integrated global consulting services and process technology enterprise, DSS applies DuPont’s real-world experience, history of innovation, problem-solving success, and strong brands to help organizations transform their workplaces and work cultures to become safer, more operationally efficient and more environmentally sustainable.
DuPont has been bringing world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace in the form of innovative products, materials, and services since 1802. The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders, we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment. Read more about DuPont and its commitment to inclusive innovation here.