Labor’s $15 billion industry fund should be writing more and smaller checks for earlier stage companies, while the government should resist using its funds for “band aid” fixes, according...
Advanced Manufacturing
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The Trump administration will take US$2 billion (A$2.8 billion) in equity stakes across nine quantum computing companies, including Australia’s Diraq, in a major push to secure US leadership in...
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One of Australia’s youngest scientific research centres has unlocked more than $11 million in matched industry and research funding for 3D printing projects spanning aerospace, defence, medtech, mining and...
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PsiQuantum has abandoned plans to build its stadium-sized quantum computing facility at Brisbane Airport, opting instead for a new site in the northern Brisbane suburb of Petrie better suited...
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Investments from the Queensland government’s venture capital and sovereign industry accelerator funds have persuaded two Victorian firms to expand north, locking in more than 150 new jobs from high-tech...
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Industry minister Tim Ayres refuses to let strategic production operations shutter or move offshore, warning Australia would not only lose blue collar jobs, it would be far less likely...
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The Albanese government has delayed decisions on productivity-boosting innovation precincts and manufacturing facilities in its overdue response to a parliamentary inquiry into the food and beverage sector that contains...
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Not every budget reply speech by a first-term opposition leader finds room among contentious capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms for a swipe at a foreign quantum computing...
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Queensland’s $181 million sovereign industry fund is backing projects manufacturing cancer treatment therapies and the state’s first semi-automated sterile fill and finish platform in its initial biomedicine investments announced...
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Australia’s first domestically built and operated electric passenger ferry will take to the Brisbane River by the end of the year, following a partnership between a local shipbuilder and...
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California-based startup PsiQuantum is yet to break ground in constructing its stadium-sized quantum computing facility at Brisbane Airport, two years after the federal and Queensland governments staked close to...
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Reports last month that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is attempting to raise US$100 billion to buy up manufacturing businesses is a sign that perhaps a bigger game is afoot....
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The federal government’s $15 billion industry fund has taken a $10 million stake in Syenta, an ANU deep tech spinout tackling one of the AI industry’s biggest bottlenecks and part...
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Australia has no shortage of world-class medical innovation. What Australia lacks, however, is a local health system that buys what it creates. And that’s a difficult issue. It is...