The federal government is expected to provide $50 million to the national space agency in this week’s budget, but one of the country’s most vocal and active space industry...
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Reform of how Australia’s R&D tax incentive scheme is administered for startups sits at the top of the Budget wish-list for two peak tech industry groups. The Australian Information...
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Industry policy-makers had become “too obsessed” with the importance of STEM skills to the jobs of the future and overlooked humanities at their peril, says Saul Singer, the co-author...
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Ahead of next week’s budget, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner John Price has suggested that in order for it to effectively regulate Australia’s emerging RegTech and FinTech...
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A decision whether Chinese telecommunication companies will be prevented from selling telecommunications equipment in the United States is expected soon. The Trump administration has considered using an executive order...
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If Australia’s AgTech sector gets a single mention in next week’s budget, it can only signal good news, according SproutX co-founder Andrew Lai. “AgTech doesn’t feature very much at...
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With a decade in Silicon Valley under her belt, Jennifer Zanich knows her way around startup culture, entrepreneurship and venture capital. She has recently started a role as head...
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Australia is on the precipice of getting digital identity right. After various attempts at one identity to rule them all with efforts such as MyGov, the rise of open...
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As a career public servant, Jane Halton rose to become one of Australia’s most powerful Mandarins, spending more than a decade as Health secretary, before leaving government in 2016...
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A cloud-based student assessment tool to support teachers; a universal student identifier that tracks children through 13 years of school; and data-driven innovation from schools themselves are among the...
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Cyber awareness among Australian businesses has improved over the last two years, but it still may take the first widely publicised example of a company being pinged by data...
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South Australia saw a seven-fold increase in total investment funding during the 2018 March quarter, according the latest funding report from Techboard. The report showed that funding from the...
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The Australian Stock Exchange is by its own admission standing at the bleeding edge of innovation with a blockchain-based replacement for its post trade settlement system. The organisation last...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Princeton, and Berkeley were just some of the top universities that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) outranked in its top ten...