In a country where debates about innovation policy tend to be about city-based issues, it is noteworthy and significant that local AgriTech companies won four of the nation’s most...
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Former Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy has bounced back after the bruising experience of the July federal election, taking an independent directors role at H2Oean, the proposed listed...
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Diversity is Victoria’s competitive advantage and the key differentiator to building the Number One ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific region, according to Innovation Minister Philip...
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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...
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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...