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Meet our Judges: Awards for Excellence

Twenty-eight innovation ecosystem leaders from across Australia have been appointed as the independent judging crew for the inaugural InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence, representing a cross section of skills,...

All the signs are bad for the Growth Centres

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
All the signs are bad for any small hope we may have had that the six industry growth centres would be replaced by something more like the highly successful...

NDIS algorithms and King Henry VIII powers

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
The political repudiation of the Commonwealth’s proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme by all States and Territories was far more than a routine stoush of the federation....

Can a patent be granted to a machine?

Posted on   |  by Dr Mark Summerfield
There is a case quietly making its way through the Federal Court of Australia that could have profound implications for our conception of what it means to be an...

Dominello urges multinationals to ‘buddy-up’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NSW Customer Service minister Victor Dominello has urged multinational tech companies seeking access to the state’s extraordinary $2.1 billion Digital Restart Fund to “partner up” and help build local...

Ben Grubb takes up editor role at InnovationAus

Posted on   |  by James Riley
InnovationAus.com has appointed the highly-regarded journalist, editor and broadcaster Ben Grubb as its new Editor, charged with running day-to-day news operation of the site, building readership across the innovation...

Lumi.Media and the global ambition of creative tech

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Lumi.Media co-founder and chief executive Karen Dewey spent decades working in or managing big teams in television, from news and current affairs to morning TV and the big, fast-moving...

Deadline looms: InnovationAus Awards 2021

Posted on   |  by James Riley
This is a call-out to Australia’s entrepreneurs and innovators, to our researchers and commercialisation heroes: The deadline for entries to the inaugural InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence looms large....

Stealth Technologies to make drone vehicle for Defence

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
Stealth Technologies will work with the Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG) and the University of WA to design and deliver an autonomous drone that automates detection of chemical, biological,...

Call for campaign on cyber critical infrastructure

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The changes to critical national infrastructure regulation in relation to cyber security will need a coordinated, Australia-wide communications campaign that embraces small and medium sized companies in order to...