Could Steve Jobs have succeeded in the Australian entrepreneurial
environment? As the world continues to mourn the loss of a great
innovator and entrepreneurial visionary, Martin Bliemel, head of the
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Australian School of
Business, considers the drivers of Jobs' extraordinary success and the
factors that gave rise not only to great tech innovation but so many
ubiquitous gadgets. In the Australian context, even Jobs might have
struggled to create such a slick global brand, so what needs to change
to make that more likely? And, while we're at it, why was one letter of
the alphabet the apple of his "i"?