Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy certainly gets around. He’s been popping up all over the place recently, bringing his youthful enthusiasm to the Turnbull Government’s innovation agenda. Monday...
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Yesterday’s announcement of a new $1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund (CEIF) is a largely symbolic move designed to boost the Coalition’s green credentials before the upcoming election. It...
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Bill Shorten and his team have a spring in their step and feel they have a whiff of a chance of rolling the Turnbull Government at the coming election....
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This week’s significant announcement Backing Australian Fintech by the Treasurer builds on the down-payment made last year by the Prime Minister and Ministers Christopher Pyne and Wyatt Roy in the National...
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If you ask the Digital Transformation Office chief executive Paul Shetler which of the DTO’s many projects he gets most excited by, he says it’s the digital marketplace. This...
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When Andy Penn became CEO at Telstra he said he would bring his “particular passion” for doing business in Asia to the role. InnovationAus.com was last week reporting that...
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The Turnbull Government will today introduce legislation that delivers huge tax benefits to angel investors who put their money into in higher risk, early stage startup companies that make...
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There is great excitement across Australia about start-ups. There is much to be applauded about the job creation impact – and other economic benefits – of building successful Australian-based...
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While Australia’s newly-appointed Special Envoy for Trade is singing the upside of ChAFTA for local services firms, he concedes IP issues remain a tricky issue for tech. But Andrew...
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The head of fintech hub Stone & Chalk has announced it will take the lead in developing a cyber security research lab in Australia, to “nurture and grow a...
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How would you like to work from home in a beautiful coastal resort area, designing computer games for a living? Not shoot-‘em-up type games, but ‘serious games’ about resilience...
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“Stand down, fellow citizens. I have returned from the Digital Transformation Office with peace in our time. The Drupal wars have been averted.” Content management systems are not exciting....
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Australia’s latest Defence White Paper isn’t doing enough to address the innovation that is cyber warfare. Wars are won by innovators; be that innovation in strategy, technology or both. Innovations...
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Australia’s new Chief Scientist and deputy chair of Innovation and Science Australia Alan Finkel has outlined a compelling case for increasing Government’s direct investment in business R&D as a...