Computerworld.com.au has an article on the AIIA Borderless World Conference that was held just a few days ago. The panellists also talked about the problem of declining numbers in students enroling in IT, and skilled professionals making the move overseas. Co-founder and CEO of Auran, Graham Edelsten, had this to say about the games industry on the panel...
"Here we are in Australia, where our labour cost is so much higher," said Edelsten, who currently holds both director and chief financial officer positions at Auran. "But because our technology is still more advanced, and [because of] our creativity due to our political system, we can produce a game that's so successful that it is attractive to those [Chinese and Korean] markets.""There are very, very creative people in Australia - but we lose a lot of our intellectual property especially to the U.S.," he said.
On the second page of the article, Graham talks of a proposal by the Singaporean Government to partly fund and train up entry-level staff from Singapore at Auran. "I wish our government would do things like that, because we are desperate for knowledge," Edelson said.