New South Wales digital minister Victor Dominello has asked the state’s information and privacy watchdogs to undertake a “scan of the AI and privacy landscape” in the wake of...
Policy
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It is a longstanding observation that complex businesses that are located close to their competitors are more productive than their more sparsely located counterparts. This theory was shaped by...
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Australia has a problem. An innovation problem. But not the problem most people imagine. It isn’t that we lack highly-educated individuals who are good at research – we have...
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The story of success of early-stage technological invention is not pretty. Studies from the US, Europe, Israel and Australia all say technological inventions are mostly unsuccessful. One local study...
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We complicate innovation. Essentially it just takes four resources to produce: talent, capital, technology, and demand. We tend to treat these resources as separate inputs rather than as an...
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The federal Productivity Commission says Australian businesses lag other developed economies in the adoption of productivity boosting data analytics and AI tools despite a relatively high uptake of cloud...
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Industry minister Ed Husic says the federal government’s review of the nascent critical technologies list will seek to find a new “middle path” between economic opportunity and national security...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission must become a “digital savvy regulator” to tackle growing regulatory challenges including crypto assets and investment scams according to its chair Joseph Longo....
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Being the change you want to see in the world starts by broadening your collective outlook. The Counterpoint Conversations — Cultural Change Unlocks Innovation whitepaper centres on the importance...
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Atlassian, Canva and SafetyCulture are examples of successful companies that began their life as digital startups in Australia. These companies have set campuses, venture capital firms, co-working spaces and...
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The venture funding of emerging industry clusters are currently disconnected from Australian industry development policy. To fully fund a specialist emerging industry, one needs a highly liquid deep tech...
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Australia and its allies are now faced with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a greenfield quantum technology industry, predicted by analysts to be worth over $1 trillion over the...
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Manufacturing is the answer. I know this because back in May of this year I stood in front of Australia’s first gigafactory in the making. In Tomago, New South...
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An analysis of industry and government reports on the future of automated vehicles found they promote benefits that may exclude several socioeconomic groups and may entrench traditional gender roles,...