The World Incubator
Mellissah Smith is the Chairperson of The World Incubator, a not-for-profit business incubator in rural Queensland. Currently the incubator is situation in Wherry House in Charters Towers, North Queensland and houses 10 startups. The World Incubator is host to North Queensland’s largest entrepreneurs conference with all proceeds going to helping rural and regional startups and farmers. Book tickets on www.nqecon.com.au.
I spent this week in Charters Towers. As I drove down the Flinders Highway, I was caught up in my childhood memories of living in this great town that I remember so fondly. Country Music Festivals, street parades, Goldfield Ashes, Mingela Rodeo, Christmas Carols, Anzac Day March and of course living in the country where all you buy from the shops is flour and sugar. Everything else is grown.
Will Charters Towers become the most entrepreneurial rural town in Australia? Well, it certainly looks like that is possible.
Having spent the week hanging out with locals, talking to local business leaders and schools, I have realised one thing - that this town is ready to choose entrepreneurship to sit along their traditional industries of tourism, agriculture and mining.
Having spent the week hanging out with locals, talking to local business leaders and schools, I have realised one thing - that this town is ready to choose entrepreneurship to sit along their traditional industries of tourism, agriculture and mining.
