This weekend marks the start of Spark Festival Sydney, which describes itself as “nine day celebration of Australian startup and entrepreneurship culture.” That’s if you come from New South...
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Taking over where the former Premier Peter Beattie’s Smart State vision left off, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Advance Queensland Program aims to make sure that Queensland stays on course to be...
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Innovation and Science Australia’s decision to appoint an outside consulting house to design a strategy to build Australia’s innovation eco-system is baffling and denigrates the public service resources available...
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Chinese-owned utility giant EnergyAustralia has invested $9.3 million in Brisbane based Redback Technologies, a battery energy company. It is the latest step in EnergyAustralia’s move into renewables, and a...
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What’s the big story in software patent applications in 2016? Does it by any chance involve a tamper-proof, virtual decentralised verification ledger? In other words, does it use blockchain?...
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The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has applied the brakes to its national identity framework plans. In a letter sent to the 70-odd organisations that replied to its Request for...
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Australia, long a leader in radio astronomy, is maintaining its premier position with the world’s largest and most innovative radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA, to...
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Being big is not always a prerequisite for being successful. Just ask the South Australian Chief Scientist Dr Leanna Read: If you place your bets in the right areas...
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Industry Minister Greg Hunt is considering the launch of a huge new Commonwealth-backed venture fund to support Australian high-growth scale-ups and mid-tier innovators that have found it hard to...
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The two most senior executives running the giant IBM Global Technology Services business in Australia – the service provider behind the 2016 Census debacle – have quietly separated from...
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As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...
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Australia’s 40 universities are hotbeds of innovation. They are constantly generating good ideas, based on new research activity across a broad range of disciplines. Government research agencies also generate...
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The technology race across the region continues to accelerate, even as the Turnbull Government’s wheels turn far more slowly to a re-positioning of its own innovation policy under Greg...
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IP Australia will lodge its first permanent offshore representative in Beijing as Australia’s innovation economy engages more closely with China as Chinese enforcement of intellectual property rights matures. IP...