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New uni program bad for research

Shadow industry minister Senator Kim Carr has accused the Morrison Government of robbing Peter to pay Paul over a decision to spent $134 million to improve student access to...

Connecting the new tech precincts

Australian governments at all levels must work together to foster “innovation precincts” and in the process improve public-private collaboration and commercialisation, according to a new report. The federal Industry...

Industrial PhD’s in the real world

Of all the great challenges facing Australian policy-makers in trying to build a better functioning innovation ecosystem, finding ways to encourage the successful commercialisation of university-based research has proved...

Partnering for commercial tech

A data-collecting drone and a fish identification technology are two recent projects that demonstrate the commercial importance of collaboration between public sector research and the private sector, Industry Minister...

Premium R&D tax offset is missing

There are growing calls in the public and private sectors for the government to introduce a collaboration premium for the research and development tax incentive to help turn around...

Dataconomy to strike a balance

Austrade chief executive Stephanie Fahey, NSW Finance Minister Victor Dominello and open banking review author Scott Farrell are among the headline speakers at InnovationAus.com’s inaugural Dataconomy forum in Sydney...

A lightning rod for gig economy

The admission that Foodora riders are “most likely workers” would act as a “lightning rod” for regulation of the gig economy around the world, according to the Transport Workers...

Digital strategy by end of the year

Industry Minister Karen Andrews has confirmed that the federal government’s Digital Economy Strategy is on track for release before the end of the year. The publication of the strategy...

Startup share scheme gets tweak

The government’s attempt to woo small businesses and startups with proposed changes to the employee share scheme has received a lukewarm reaction, with industry concerns the changes don’t go...

Call to regulate the IoT sector

Australia risks lagging other jurisdictions in the regulation of Internet of Things devices to improve cybersecurity, according to Secure Logic chief executive Santosh Devaraj, and government should be considering...

RegTech Checkbox taps exports

When an industry such as compliance software has been around for decades and it’s suddenly been given a new name such as RegTech, it must mean something right? Evan...

Confused Deliveroo was no partner

The federal government has denied it partnered with Deliveroo as part of a $1.4 million program aiming to push unemployed young Australians into the gig economy, despite the tech...

Backlash at R&D tax changes

Controversial changes to the R&D tax incentive are “ill-advised” and would do “untold damage to large sections of the Australian innovation community”, according to submissions to a Senate inquiry....

Govt caves to Labor MHR demands

The federal government will introduce further amendments to the My Health Record system, caving to a number of the recommendations from the Labor-led Senate inquiry. But the government will...