One of Asia’s largest banks, HSBC, is the latest group to have belled the cat on the often sleepy Australian business community’s appreciation of the vast opportunities in Southeast...
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As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...
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If you think that you have to be in Sydney or Melbourne to successfully launch that business idea of yours, you can’t be further away from the truth. What’s...
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Agricultural technology – AgriTech – has the potential to give Australia a $100 billion agricultural industry by 2030, says a new report. That’s a doubling in size in a...
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The Digital Transformation Office’s newly-launched Digital Marketplace creates a mechanism for government to buy more local technology, but some baked-in attitudes about tech vendors may also need to be...
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In a country where debates about innovation policy tend to be about city-based issues, it is noteworthy and significant that local AgriTech companies won four of the nation’s most...
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Former Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy has bounced back after the bruising experience of the July federal election, taking an independent directors role at H2Oean, the proposed listed...
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Diversity is Victoria’s competitive advantage and the key differentiator to building the Number One ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific region, according to Innovation Minister Philip...
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The Turnbull Government’s grandly named $11 million offshore initiative for Australian startups – the Global Innovation Program – will be firing on all five cylinders by October as the...
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Cybersecurity is big business and an increasingly important business issue and these days is central to any discussion about protecting intellectual property. Certainly this was the case with the...
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Small businesses and startups need to lift their awareness of intellectual property issues and lock down IP early to protect their grey matter assets, according to the IP Australia....
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The technology race across the region continues to accelerate, even as the Turnbull Government’s wheels turn far more slowly to a re-positioning of its own innovation policy under Greg...
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IP Australia will lodge its first permanent offshore representative in Beijing as Australia’s innovation economy engages more closely with China as Chinese enforcement of intellectual property rights matures. IP...
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Is Australia’s fintech startup community too regulated? Or is regulation a good thing? It depends on who you listen to. Jack Zhang, CEO of Melbourne fintech startup Airwallex, has...