Local tech firms win Nobel prizes Biomedical company Trimph, health insight firm Prospection, and agrifood tech business Moisture Planting Technologies were each awarded Nobel prizes during a special Nobel Gala...
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Access to talent remains the key to building a successful home-grown tech and innovation sector in Australia, according to one of the nation’s most successful technology entrepreneurs, Melanie Perkins....
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Business leadership gets the real value of data wrong in such significant ways that boards may be negligent in their duty to protect the interests of their companies, according...
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The StartupAus 2018 Crossroads report makes ten recommendations for policy changes that would help make Australia one of the best places in the world to build and grow a...
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A farcical day in the Parliament has ended with Labor caving at the last minute and passing the government’s encryption bill, just as it looked like the controversial legislation...
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The federal government’s planned changes to the research and development tax incentive present a “critical risk” to Australian startups, and could lead to the collapse of many companies or...
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The Australian startup sector is at a “tipping point” where it must deliver on its potential in spite of a lack of political love, according to StartupAus chief executive...
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The Victorian government’s plans for a flagship Apple store at Federation Square have been quietly delayed by a year, as its two primary political supporters have been removed from...
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Australian quantum computing software startup Q-CTRL has launched its first product to the public, Black Opal. The software brings a friendly user interface to the quantum domain for the...
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The government needs to provide Australian medical and health researchers with better access to valuable data in order to improve the health of the population and cash in on...
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The political debate over the highly contentious encryption bill has become even uglier as a vote fast-approaches, with the government accusing Labor of “running a protection racket” for terrorists....
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Data Republic is on a mission to build a cross-border data trading platform using the $22 million it has just raised in Series B funding. The funding round was...
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At least $26 million in taxpayer funds was lost on the national crime intelligence commission’s doomed biometrics project before it was canned earlier this year. In June the ACIC...
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It seems Australia’s experiment at being a world leader at ‘innovation’ is over, with the abrupt departure of its champion, Malcolm Turnbull. The then prime minister made headlines with...