With the fate of the Australian Technology Park now largely decided, the local innovation sector should be getting itself organised now for a campaign to keep the Powerhouse Museum...
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Culture, capital and commercialisation of research would form the backbone of the upcoming Innovation Statement, according to one of its principal architects Wyatt Roy. In a speech opening the...
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Ren Zhengfei, the enigmatic founder and chairman of China’s most successful international company Huawei Technologies is a hard man to pin down. He has only ever given a handful...
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Anyone who has read enough self-help books will know that happiness is not something that you can ‘do’. But if you do a whole range of things, like keeping...
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The Universities’ website The Conversation has carried two posts recently, by Michael Brown and Merlin Crossley, examining the NHMRC and ARC. Both express concern about the processes and outcomes...
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After years of negotiation and numerous leaks, the official final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement has been released. About the only place where the hype meets reality is in...
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In the months before Myanmar’s first widely-contested general election in 25 years this past Sunday, aid groups and local entrepreneurs were working overtime to solve a problem that is...
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Whatever the government has planned for its Innovation Statement – expected before Christmas – it will almost certainly contain some long-term thinking around research funding and how it is...
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Looks like a tech bubble. Walks like a tech bubble. Is a tech bubble.* That seems to be the quickly developing school of thought in the United States, where...
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Just 3 per cent of venture backed companies are backed by women; Heads Over Heels wants that to change. The organisation was established in Australia five years ago with...
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Just two years ago, when he was finance chief, Telstra CEO Andy Penn was at pains to downplay any likelihood that Telstra would invest in any mobile infrastructure. The...
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The term ‘unbanked’ conjures all sorts of negative images, but the countless millions of ‘unbanked’ people in the Asia-Pacific region represent a tremendous opportunity for tech companies. More specifically,...
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Cloud integration company Maestrano is one of the success stories of Australian tech over the last few years. Its founders want to keep it in Australia as it grows,...
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In all the hoo-ha over the opaque (and problematic Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal between 12 countries), a rather sizeable nugget of good news for Australia, and particularly its...