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V2food takes alt-meat mainstream

Using cutting-edge technology and Australia’s best researchers, V2food has created what it has dubbed Version 2 of meat. The Australian company spun out of CSIRO now supplies its meat-free,...

A framework to redefine our national innovation mission

The development of Australia’s innovation capability is connected to the pressing need for environmental sustainability due to global warming, and rising security concerns stemming from reliance on supply chains...

ERP app for factories secures seed funding

Sydney-based job management software firm Factory.app has closed a $1.05 million seed funding round to support its ambition of improving the efficiency of small to medium-sized fabricator businesses. The firm...

Alan Finkel on Australia’s clean energy opportunity

The world will decarbonise, fast or slow, hell or high water. The hard part of the transition is more difficult than any deliberate undertaking ever previously contemplated. The very...

Digital ID helping Ukraine crowdsource military intelligence

Ukraine’s three-year-old digital ID system became an unlikely source of military intelligence in the nation’s defence against Russia, while far older tech has also proven more resilient than anticipated,...

Gig Guide: Universities Australia chief to depart

Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson will resign at the end of this year after five years in the role. Ms Jackson has been at the organisation for seven...

Manufacturing union secures last NRF board position

Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union assistant national secretary Glenn Thompson has filled the last National Reconstruction Fund Corporation board position more than two months after the appointments were announced. Mr...

SmarterSoft delivers low-code, no-code tech for NGOs

For many non-profits and non-government organisations, technology issues can get in the way of delivering services to the people who need it most. The need to have effective tech...

‘Vegemite economy’ spreads innovation investment too thin

Australia can only retain its competitive advantages in innovative technologies like quantum and photonics if the nation specialises and scales its priority sectors, according to chief scientist Dr Cathy...