Bill Morrow, the 56-year-old Californian silver fox who heads Australia’s endlessly controversial National Broadband Network sounds just a little amazed with himself when he admits that the job –...
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Spending taxpayer money to attract huge global accelerator programs to Australia does a disservice to Australian startups and delivers few benefits to the local ecosystem, according to Schedugram founder...
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LaunchVic chief executive Kate Cornick says the organisation will dish out more targeted funding more regularly as part of a new strategic direction for its $60 million innovation fund....
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The organisation responsible for dishing out Victoria’s $60 million innovation fund will focus on encouraging more migrants and refugees to develop tech companies in its next round of grants....
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CSIRO has still not officially agreed to allow its Data61 analytics unit to become involved in the government’s highly contentious welfare drug testing program, a Senate estimates hearing has...
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A senate inquiry into the use of drones in Australia risks stifling local innovation in the sector if it recommends the imposition of heavy-handed regulation, according local drone entrepreneur...
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The government’s planned privacy code for the public sector is a “smokescreen” to cover its series of failures in the space, and has no hope of preventing similar failures...
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Government research and development spending gets trumped by academic R&D when it comes to positive economic spill-over effects on business R&D, a new study has revealed. Academic R&D expenditure...
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A prospective Co-operative Research Centre devoted to cyber security that boasts a former ASIO head as its chair will re-apply for funding at the end of May, hopeful that...
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CSIRO was not consulted about a controversial program to drug test welfare recipients before a Cabinet minister announced that its Data61 analytics unit would be a key player in...
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Amid growing concerns at the trickle of money being assigned under the Incubator Support initiative, Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos will today unveil four new incubator projects worth $1.4 million,...
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Only one startup has utilised ASIC’s regulatory sandbox since it was launched late last year, leading the government to make a series of changes to broaden the scope of...
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In a week when Bitcoin broke through the $US2,000 barrier, news emerged that a pallet of Coonawarra wine had completed its 8,100 kilometer journey to China’s Qingdao with its...
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Tyro Payments executive director Jost Stollmann arrived in this country with his family by accident in 2004 and it is our good fortune that he did. Mr Stollmann is a...