In the fast evolving digital economy, smarter cities policy will drive the nation’s ability to both innovate and compete in global markets, as well as provide the platform for economic...
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Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has recommitted Labor’s focus on globalisation and large scale multilateral trade deals in a big set-piece speech on Tuesday. Speaking at the Lowy Institute, Mr...
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As extraordinary as it seems to actually write this down, the ultra-premium office space at the harbourside finance and professional services mecca of Barangaroo is being considered as the...
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A little over a year after CSIRO unveiled its controversial plans to restructure, its chairman David Thodey said that the moves are “kicking some goals” but cautioned that the...
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A new report places Australia seventh in the number of tech industry exits in 2016. Exits are a good thing, based on the terminology used in the startup industry....
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More than two weeks after the Australian and New Zealand governments unveiled a bilateral Science, Research and Innovation Cooperation Agreement, details of initiatives under the treaty have now emerged....
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Wary of looming shortages of digital security specialists, the federal government hopes to unearth the next generation of cyber warriors with its upcoming Cyber Security Challenge. While the challenge...
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In 1983, while he was a young banker working in Sydney’s growing financial markets, Adam Lyle joined the NSW Entrepreneurs Workshop. His first project was a stair-wheelchair. While financially...
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Newspaper and internet group Fairfax last week confirmed the media sector’s worst kept secret as it unveiled a damp squib of a half year result: that it is considering...
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When Springboard Enterprises founder Kay Koplovitz was asked to bring her development program for female entrepreneurs to Australia nine years ago she thought it was pointless. “I said there’s...
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The Australian Taxation Office’s just-published alert aimed at companies seeking R&D tax benefits for software development activity has landed among high-growth startups like a bombshell. The advice is confusing...
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The Victorian Government is on the hunt for a new LaunchVic chairman following outgoing Australia Post boss Ahmed Fahour’s resignation from the state’s $60 million innovation fund. Mr Fahour...
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The Jobs for NSW proposal to lease up to 15,000 square metres of CBD office space to create a Sydney Startup Hub is the most interesting thing to happen...
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A big Australian cyber security mission stormed the beaches of San Francisco last week seeking intel on how to exploit the giant US market and lure American cyber players...