Theories of innovation serve as a framework for understanding how new ideas evolve into end user-ready products, services, or processes. There are five seminal theories that seek to explain...
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Cybersecurity has become a dinner table discussion point in Australia in the last year. The high-profile and devastating data breaches that have impacted some of the country’s largest companies...
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Digital ID precursor legislation that provides a legal basis for the government to operate its document and face matching systems has passed the lower house despite privacy concerns from...
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The Australian Strategic Capabilities Accelerator will commit an estimated $680 million over the next ten years to the research and development of emerging and disruptive technologies, according to its...
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Australia is facing a severe cybersecurity skills shortage at a time when the sector has never been more important to the economy or the lives of all people. According...
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The state enterprise in charge of Victoria’s rail infrastructure misled the government while convincing it to invest $82.5 million into commercialising unproven technology in partnership with Xerox, according to...
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21 research projects from 11 universities will share in $4.9 million in the pilot phase of Australia’s newest research commercialisation push, which has struggled to get off the ground...
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A new cross-party forum has been launched in Parliament to drive engagement and understanding on the role of technology and innovation in the future of Australia’s economy. The Parliamentary...
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The purchasing decisions of the former New South Wales government and their impact on the state’s manufacturing sector will be front and centre of a new parliamentary inquiry into...
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Closer collaboration with the local space industry is a key Defence priority according to chief of joint capabilities Lieutenant General John Frewen, with commercial capabilities becoming increasingly important in...
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Australia’s chief scientist Dr Cathy Foley will deliver a lunchtime keynote address to The Capability Papers launch forum at Old Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday, an event that...
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The Albanese government settled on an outdated privacy framework for long-overdue laws to govern its document and face matching systems, despite acknowledging the protections are inadequate. That’s according to...
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The federal government’s $1.6 billion research commercialisation program has stalled again, keeping universities and researchers on hold for the second time. But an administrative process has revealed the first...
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Around one in every 10 dollars spent by the Commonwealth goes to technology. The massive commitment is justified, senior bureaucrats overseeing projects like digital identity say, but how the...