Western Australia has unveiled a four-year $20 million innovation program, appointed its first innovation minister, and pledged to leverage digital technology to broaden the State’s economy. State Development and...
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The war over who has the best policies to support innovation has yet to be fought tooth and claw by either side in this marathon election campaign, although Labor...
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Most entrepreneurs are happy with a single startup dominating their life around the clock. I decided that sleep was overrated and did two simultaneously. The first of my startups...
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Richard White, Australia’s newest member of the Unicorn club, has a problem with minimal viable products – he thinks they’re oxymoronic for enterprise software companies. “People often produce something...
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The Deloitte Australian Privacy Index released this week produced some surprising results, not the least of which was that nearly three quarters of consumers don’t trust a brand any...
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Malcolm Turnbull’s singular achievement on the Abbott frontbench was the pulling apart of the National Broadband Network, and like Dr Frankenstein, putting together various bits and pieces to create...
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So here’s what has happened so far. On Sunday morning the Prime Minister called for an election to be held on July 2. It’s now Tuesday evening and I...
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The Labor party will need to dramatically reforge its rhetoric around fostering innovation if it wants to snag votes from the tech sector at the July 2 double dissolution...
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Now that Malcolm Turnbull has called a July 2 double dissolution election, the Budget is last week’s news. The phoney war is over and Australia is in election mode....
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Shares in ASX-listed geospatial mapping and visual analytics company Nearmap soared nearly 30 per cent recently on the back of a positive quarterly financial update. Its shares are now...
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The Turnbull government has today inked what is arguably the Coalition’s smartest bilateral economic agreement, particularly in terms of technology and innovation. The so-called Australia-Singapore Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is a step...
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It has been a huge week for InnovationAus.com – a real milestone in the development of our platform and our business. Yes, yes, I know that a Federal Budget also...
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After nearly a year in temporary digs within the University of Technology Sydney, the Digital Transformation Office has found a permanent home, landing among the bearded people in the...
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Billed as a jobs and growth budget, for Australia’s innovators, it is a Jekyll and Hyde affair. Yes, the government wants to spruce up the economy with shiny Dr...