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Does innovation need connectivity?

Eight and a half years ago a group of ICT companies put together a report Energising Australian Innovation which was sub-titled “a 10 year Strategic Vision for the Australian...

Bishop offers $2m policy ‘prize’

The Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop will offer a $2 million ‘prize’ for the most innovative ideas and programs for responding to future natural disasters in the Pacific. Launching...

Local uni’s embrace Stanford model

Australian universities are embracing the CS+X model now being championed by Stanford, to offer courses that blend computer science with other disciplines in order to make ICT study more...

Business readies for R&D tax fight

The business sector is preparing to fight calls for an overhaul of Australia’s R&D tax incentive scheme, arguing government has no business trying to “pick winners” when it comes...

Mobile is key to Asia readiness

Arriving in sleepy Vientiane, the capital of Communist run Laos – one of the least populous nations in the region, with just six million people – last week, I was surprised...

Are there no women in Camelot?

The list of senior leadership appointments to the Commonwealth’s innovation infrastructure is impressive, bringing a diversity of business and commercial experience to the roles that had perhaps been lacking....

Open door policy for Avi Hasson

The Office of the Chief Scientist inside Israel’s Ministry for the Economy is responsible for the execution of government policy in support of industrial research and development. Given Israel’s...

LaunchVic: a different agency

The Victorian Government has announced a new public sector entity to encourage and develop the state’s startup community, in what will be quite a different government agency, its new...

Robot competition promotes STEM

The promotion of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers for young Australian’s will be a dominant outcome of a global robotics community competition coming to Sydney in 2019....

LucyT rolls the DICE for Wyatt

It is little wonder that Wyatt Roy has established such cultural affinity with the Israelis given the man’s innate and bountiful chutzpah. Whatever you think of the Assistant Minister...

24/7 cyber centre opens in Sydney

Real-time threat detection, prevention and analysis will be conducted on a 24/7 basis at Deloitte’s new Cyber Intelligence Centre in Sydney, which was officially opened today. One of 20...

UTS cranks its innovation engine

UTS Vice-Chancellor Attila Brungs will tonight unveil a new strategic plan for the university that broadens access to research facilities and labs for local startups and SMEs, driving better...

Source IP connects research dots

Potentially ground-breaking and pioneering intellectual property from Australian research is now publicly available for the commercially astute to evolve into the market, thanks to the launch of IP Australia’s...

Big-hearted GP gets ticker upgrade

Veteran technology reporter and foundation InnovationAus.com contributor Graeme Philipson is resting comfortably at St George Private Hospital after undergoing quadruple-bypass heart surgery on Monday. Philipson, 61, was last night...