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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

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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.

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