Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has selected Adelaide’s innovation precinct, Lot Fourteen, as the fourth global location for its prestigious Living Lab. The Living Lab will be established as...
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The Department of Industry’s Office of the Chief Economist has released a series of reports on the government industry support programs, delivering a largely favorable assessment of the positive...
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There is a broad consensus across Australia’s tech industry that the country’s encryption laws have hurt the sector’s ability to export and innovate, according to submissions to a Parliamentary...
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The Queensland government, together with Powerlink Queensland and Energy Queensland, have jointly launched FibreCo Queensland to provide internet connectivity to regional Queensland at significantly lower prices. FibreCo Queensland will...
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The CSIRO’s specialist business unit Data61 celebrated its third birthday this week. It is worth noting the milestone. The organisation is structurally very different from its early days, and...
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The New South Wales government’s tech SME and startup program Pitch to Pilot has prompted some strangely mixed reviews. None of the companies interviewed by InnovationAus.com got any business...
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The NSW Innovation and Productivity Council (IPC) released a first-time report on the economic impact that different businesses sizes have when measured against key indicators like numbers of jobs...
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Australian cybersecurity startups Cydarm and SecureStack have been named as finalists of the RSA Conference (RSAC) Asia Pacific and Japan Launch Pad. The companies will head to Singapore in...
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The Australian Government rolled out a red carpet this week for hyper-scale cloud platform provider Amazon Web Services, helpfully launching a standardised whole-of-government agreement to make it easier to...
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South Australia will pay the Sydney-headquartered FinTech incubator and co-working space Stone and Chalk nearly $8 million over three years to manage a space industry-focused incubator at Adelaide’s Lot...
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The Queensland government has ramped up efforts to snag a bigger slice of Australia’s nascent space sector, committing to the development of a Queensland Space Strategy to address space...
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The Queensland government’s red carpet roll-out for game developers, designers, production companies and other creative startups has gathered momentum with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk naming a second cohort of ten...
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The G20 leaders’ summit kicks off in Osaka later this week, with topics of innovation and the operation of the digital economy now central to the discussions. Even taking...
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In his first major domestic speech since the May 18 federal poll, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pledged to improve Australia’s digital skills, and to drive the uptake of...