Earlier this year, the Limestone Coast Grape and Wine Council commissioned Dr Jonathan Staggs (University of Queensland) – an expert on institutions, regions, and entrepreneurship – to produce a report to quantify the wine industry’s broad benefits for the Limestone Coast community. After this work was completed, we have invited him to share his findings at a public lecture with Q&A in Mount Gambier on Tuesday 28 October, where we will also officially launched the report.

This report, ‘A Region of Value: Strengthening the Grape and Wine Future of the Limestone Coast’, provides clear advocacy and novel recommendations to strengthen the industry’s profile and future development, emphasising the need to build entrepreneurial capabilities that challenge the status quo and capitalise on emerging consumer trends. To support this, a series of economic scenarios are presented to spark discussion on how the Limestone Coast can develop future-focused capabilities.

This presentation covers much more than the wine industry. It contains insights into tourism, the experience economy, region-based policy, and a number of local industries.

This report is available to download here.

A short, AI-assisted summary video is available to watch below.