An innovation centre that has been operating for more than 25 years has shut its doors for good as things get tough for small consultancies operating in the tech...
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The Opposition’s new “local projects, local jobs” procurement policy would help small Australian tech companies secure government contracts, shadow industry minister Kim Carr said. A slew of Labor shadow...
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The Australian game development sector hopes to drive part of the national debate in the lead up to this year’s federal election, seeking a new level of political support...
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The federal government’s Australian Cyber Security Centre has quietly shuttered the 2019 iteration of its annual conference leaving the security sector scrambling. The ACSC conference held annually in March/April...
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More than $40 million worth of grants were delivered to 19 projects as part of the sixth round of the federal government’s Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) grants program....
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The recently-passed encryption bill had the potential to “harm the economic viability and growth of Australia’s cybersecurity sector” if a series of serious concerns were not addressed, a report...
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The much-anticipated launch of open banking in Australia has been quietly delayed by the federal government by eight months. On the last Friday before Christmas, a day typically used...
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Following InnovationAus.com’s recap of the first six months of the year, it’s clear that 2018 started with a bang. It’s now time to look at what has been happening...
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It has taken three ministers and 18 months of work to get it done, but the federal government has quietly released its much anticipated digital economy strategy in a...
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The Australian science and technology sector has been left “perplexed and disappointed” by the federal government’s “ram raid” cuts to research grants, with up to 500 PhD scholarships to...
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With another year almost over, InnovationAus.com has put together a two-part recap of the key highlights of an extraordinary 2018. For this first part, we’ll look at what happened...
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As the clock runs down on 2018, InnovationAus.com is taking the pulse of our readership through a short survey to make sure we are on the right track and...
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A new $13 million global talent scheme program has been unveiled by the federal government, providing fast-tracked visas to STEM-focused companies, following the launch of a pilot program earlier...
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The federal opposition has pledged to “preserve” the research and development tax incentive after accusing the government of “wrecking” the popular scheme. At the Labor Party’s national conference in...