Gene Kostecki

Innovation is enabling a handful of WA manufacturers to survive in a market under increasing pressure.

SEVEN of Western Australia's top entrepreneurs have been recognised at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Awards held in Perth last week.

A strong theme among Ernst & Young’s western region finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year is the technology businesses that have developed to service the resources sector.

IT should come as no surprise that the biggest and most common issue confronting a bunch of successful Western Australian companies is that of labour - getting and keeping the skills they need to meet the strong demand they are seeing.