Co-founders Tom Hussey and Brian Conolly teamed up in 2018 to transform the textile industry by addressing two of the sector’s biggest challenges: functional performance and sustainability. Their vision...
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Dr John Arkwright is an inventor and discoverer who set himself a challenge when founding Arkwright Technologies – to measure pressure inside the body using optical fibre. “I developed...
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Dr Brenton Cooper is the co-founder and chief executive of Fivecast, a data analytics startup that provides global law enforcement agencies with the tools to tackle challenges like online...
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Technology and innovation is now a core part of every industry and every company, and that includes lobster farming: Just ask the NSW-based aquaculture outfit Australian Bay Lobster Producers....
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Sleeptite chief executive Cameron van den Dungen always had a dream to innovate the aged care sector and set out to fuel the ‘connected bedroom’ movement by making beds...
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In 2019, some intellectual property created through a research project at the Australian National University was spun out as a startup which might change how we all use computers....
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The story of LLEAF, which stands for luminescent light emitting agricultural film, began at the University of NSW when Dr Alex Falber invented novel light shifting dyes, according to...
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As the story goes, army veteran Tom Moore hatched the idea for WithYouWithMe (WYWM) – a veteran education and employment tech company – when he was attempting to transition...
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Data Zoo chief executive Tony Fitzgibbon will tell you his career didn’t begin in the data space – even though he has now become ultra-passionate about “solving the issue...
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When Western Australian tech firm DUG set out to create its own supercomputer network of data centres around the world, the company turned to its own R&D unit to...
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With the outstanding finalists for the 2022 InnovationAus Awards for Excellence now locked in, online voting is now open to the public to find a winner for the prestigious...
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A startup spun out of the Australian National University is looking to solve one of the world’s biggest environmental problems thanks to its plastic-eating enzyme that can make the...
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AbilityMap founders Mike Erlin and Kevin Chandler were trying to solve the same problem from a different direction. It was a decade ago when the pair first met, and...
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Talk to Xavier Orr for any length of time and you’ll soon discover he lives and breathes algorithms and artificial intelligence. In fact, his AI-driven invention – dubbed Hydrus...