More than a decade after cashing out of his dotcom era business WebCentral to Australia’s innovation obsessed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, internet pioneer Lloyd Ernst is on a roll...
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Veteran Aussie tech entrepreneur Simon Hackett says we need to vastly raise the tempo of innovation policy to make venture capital work properly in this country as he wrangles...
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Health care and how to fund it was a hot political topic last week. But only the week before NBN Co had been providing its own input, promoting telehealth...
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It is fair to say the New South Wales Government has been running hot and cold on innovation issues in the past year. The state remains the stand-out leader...
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Brisbane-based Technology One is Australia’s biggest home-grown software company with close to $200 million in annual revenues and more than a thousand employees. Next year the company will be...
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Re-hatched government tech research and commercialisation arm Data61 got to strut its stuff in public this week attracting over 1000 visitors to its D61+Live event at the Australian Technology...
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Australian businesses will get a close look at some of China’s biggest technology companies including Huawei Technologies, Alibaba, Baidu, and JD.com as part of the Australia Week in China...
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Australia’s prospects for building serious cyber security businesses muscle are possibly stronger than many realise, but the local digital security sector still waits for the fire to be lit...
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Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy certainly gets around. He’s been popping up all over the place recently, bringing his youthful enthusiasm to the Turnbull Government’s innovation agenda. Monday...
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Yesterday’s announcement of a new $1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund (CEIF) is a largely symbolic move designed to boost the Coalition’s green credentials before the upcoming election. It...
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Bill Shorten and his team have a spring in their step and feel they have a whiff of a chance of rolling the Turnbull Government at the coming election....
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This week’s significant announcement Backing Australian Fintech by the Treasurer builds on the down-payment made last year by the Prime Minister and Ministers Christopher Pyne and Wyatt Roy in the National...
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If you ask the Digital Transformation Office chief executive Paul Shetler which of the DTO’s many projects he gets most excited by, he says it’s the digital marketplace. This...
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When Andy Penn became CEO at Telstra he said he would bring his “particular passion” for doing business in Asia to the role. InnovationAus.com was last week reporting that...