The federal government has opened a tender for four regional incubator facilitators as part of the Industry department’s revamped Entrepreneurs’ Programme. These facilitators are being asked to provide mentoring...
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The heated public debate over a secretive deal between tech giant Apple and the Victorian government to build a “flagship” store at Federation Square has revealed internal divisions within...
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Google has taken aim at the Australian government’s changes to the skilled migration visas, with the tech giant saying it has been forced to change its local recruitment plans....
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The CSIRO, IoT Alliance Australia, Council of Small business of Australia (COSBA), and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) are among 160-plus organisation to respond to the federal...
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Even though the Australian government failed to pass amendments to the equity crowd source funding (CSF) regime before the end of last year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission...
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Angelic structures hang overhead. Unlit wings crossing corridors of black cabs and emblematic red buses, awaiting electricity to declare that Christmas was coming. Collars pulled closely move quickly through autumnal...
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The government failed to meet its own year-end deadline for tabling a response to a senate report on the local games development sector, even as the ‘zombie inquiry’ approaches...
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The Victorian state opposition has fallen short in its bid to force an inquiry into problems at LaunchVic, the organisation overseeing the deployment of state government’s $60 million innovation...
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In a major speech this week presenting his National Security Strategy, US President Donald Trump named China and Russia as competitors and “revisionist powers”. No real surprises there, although...
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Fed up with seeing all the attention from the government shine on urban-based accelerators and incubators, Wollongong University’s iAccelerate has teamed up with other regional incubators to figure out...
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The Chinese government might be known the for the heavy hand of its command-and-control economic operations, but according to GWC partner and co-chief executive E.Hao – a former senior...
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s bigger than expected ministerial reshuffle has delivered a new leadership team to its core innovation programs and reset expectations of what the industry can expect...
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Michaelia Cash will lead the government’s new innovation and jobs portfolio as part of Malcolm Turnbull’s Christmas cabinet reshuffle. The Prime Minister announced on Tuesday afternoon that Senator Cash...
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The venture capital sector remains one of the last bastions of gender imbalance and inequality, despite the good intentions and deliberate actions of many business leaders who work within...