Malcolm Turnbull's innovation package offers tax breaks and school focus
by Daniel Hurst Political correspondent from on (#WV8P)
Startups to get support and foreign students of maths, science and technology encouraged to stay, in package believed to be worth $1bn over four years
Malcolm Turnbull is set to expand on an early theme of his prime ministership by unveiling an "innovation" package believed to be worth more than $1bn over four years.
Guardian Australia understands the plan to be released in Canberra on Monday will include tax incentives for early-stage companies closely modelled on the "seed enterprise investment scheme" championed by the British chancellor George Osborne.
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