InnovationAus.com will host Election 2016’s first ministerial debate on innovation and digital transformation in collaboration with the sector’s most important industry groups next Thursday at the University of Technology, Sydney in...
Startups
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Last week saw the launch of a new Sydney based tech startup group called, rather imaginatively, TechSydney. It is a worthwhile exercise and should be a success, if the...
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At the annual Broadcast Asia expo in Singapore last week, one of the big buzzes was about online video streaming, the so-called over the top services that are laying...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s regulatory sandbox proposals have been hailed as a game changer in the global FinTech scene but may need some tweaking to accommodate ideas...
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Regardless of what you think about the government dropping a further $15 million into incubator support a week ago, it seems a strange way to announce policy. This is...
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Last week was OECD week; but in Australia about the only coverage was the OECD concern about our housing prices. Despite Australia being the 23rd member of the OECD...
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The Asia Pacific region – Australia’s backyard – is now home to more than half of the world’s 2.5 billion plus smartphone users, a share that grew from 35 per...
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For all the Chinese government’s grand plans to bring the country charging into the 21st Century as a powerhouse of science and technology the truth is, like its North...
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The great lie being sold to young women professionals in the tech sector is that they can have it all. Not yet they can’t, and Ruslan Kogan knows why....
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A controversial High Court decision not to allow a patent applicant to appeal an adverse finding in the Full Federal Court has caused an outbreak of the crankies in...
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It is a question that is doing the rounds. “Are we in a fin-tech bubble, I think we are.” At least that was the message from among a phalanx of...
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It’s hard to know what to make of the latest tech industry lobby group to be set up – Tech Sydney – but the fact that the group will...
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We know Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition has a clue about nurturing the innovation sector, but so far in this election Labor seems oblivious to the nation building potential of startups...
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Australia may never face the existential challenges of Israel, demand national service of its youth, or have a Chief Scientist with $500 million a year to blow on startups...