Australia’s technology-facing industry groups have welcomed the strong election commitments to the sector from both the major parties, although each has imposed caveats related to the ability of whoever...
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There is a closed circle of thinking in the tech community that gets exasperated at every single thing that government does. If only the government would get out of...
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It’s time to open the gate, and let our innovative tech startups be free to grab this huge global opportunity. There has been lots of good news and optimism...
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For those people that could not make it to the InnovationAus.com Election 2016 Innovation Policy Debate, we bring you colour and movement and some of the behind the scenes...
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While the groundswell of political support for the technology startups was encouraging, Australia would enjoy bigger opportunities if it broadened its outlook in addressing the needs of the whole...
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There are no two better qualified candidates to debate issues of digital transformation and innovation than the Liberal member for Hume Angus Taylor and Labor’s member for Chifley Ed...
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InnovationAus.com will host Election 2016’s first ministerial debate on innovation and digital transformation in collaboration with the sector’s most important industry groups next Thursday at the University of Technology, Sydney in...
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Last week was OECD week; but in Australia about the only coverage was the OECD concern about our housing prices. Despite Australia being the 23rd member of the OECD...
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The great lie being sold to young women professionals in the tech sector is that they can have it all. Not yet they can’t, and Ruslan Kogan knows why....
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A controversial High Court decision not to allow a patent applicant to appeal an adverse finding in the Full Federal Court has caused an outbreak of the crankies in...
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We know Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition has a clue about nurturing the innovation sector, but so far in this election Labor seems oblivious to the nation building potential of startups...
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Western Australia has unveiled a four-year $20 million innovation program, appointed its first innovation minister, and pledged to leverage digital technology to broaden the State’s economy. State Development and...
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The Labor party will need to dramatically reforge its rhetoric around fostering innovation if it wants to snag votes from the tech sector at the July 2 double dissolution...
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Australia’s Intellectual Property regime has lost sight of its users and in need of significant rebalancing, with the current system now tipped too far in favour of vocal rights-holders...