"So, as future courses evolve we will be developing a growing pool of entrepreneurial talent. In five years time, we could have as many as 100 ICT companies in Australia all in this network with each other collaborating and cooperating. Obviously the desire is to get some of these companies to become large multinationals," Dean said.

This program just completed cost participants A$5000 (US$3794) each as it was heavily subsidized by government funding. Dean is planning now for the next program which is set to start around October, and he said it would run whether he receives the desired government funding or not.