Since Telstra announced a $246 million impairment on its video startup investment Ooyala, views have ranged from the difficulty it reveals for Telstra shifting from a telephone to a...
Startups
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The Turnbull Government’s grandly named $11 million offshore initiative for Australian startups – the Global Innovation Program – will be firing on all five cylinders by October as the...
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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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Cybersecurity is big business and an increasingly important business issue and these days is central to any discussion about protecting intellectual property. Certainly this was the case with the...
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Small businesses and startups need to lift their awareness of intellectual property issues and lock down IP early to protect their grey matter assets, according to the IP Australia....
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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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Adding one million new jobs to the NSW economy in the next 20 years is a daunting but achievable challenge, despite the growing intensity of creative disruption sweeping across...
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Is Australia’s fintech startup community too regulated? Or is regulation a good thing? It depends on who you listen to. Jack Zhang, CEO of Melbourne fintech startup Airwallex, has...
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Greg Hunt has revealed much in the past week about how he intends to run the industry portfolio, opting to taking on more direct charge of the breadth of...
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In April this year an Australian biotech startup came equal second in a huge international competition in China’s southern city of Shenzhen to find the most promising startups for...
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Australia’s entertainment and media sector must encourage diversity or risk losing out on emerging growth opportunities in Asia Pacific. This was the key takeaway from PwC’s 2016 Australian Entertainment...
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The rapidly growing forest of FinTechs has meant it is now getting much harder to spot the wood for the trees. FinTech Australia this week launched its 2016 census...
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For every success story of an Australian company that has built an export success story on China, there are many others that have struggled. One key to building a...
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Industry Minister Greg Hunt will today unveil a new capital funding scheme for local mid-sized companies and scale-up enterprises as part of a recalibration of the National Innovation and...