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How to survive disruption rules

Last week’s InnovationAus.com Open Opportunity Forum in Sydney was a wide ranging affair, featuring federal government ministers, business leaders, departmental secretaries, academics and data scientists. It was clear from...

Time for rubber and road to meet

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said “tell me once”, should be a principle that applies right across government adding that the role of the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) will...

Research funding gets a makeover

Whatever the government has planned for its Innovation Statement – expected before Christmas – it will almost certainly contain some long-term thinking around research funding and how it is...

Fresh leadership drives agenda

Assistant Minister for Innovation, Wyatt Roy and Assistant Minister for Science, Karen Andrews spoke this morning at the first InnovationAus.com Opportunity Forum in Sydney. See main article here. Assistant ministers they...

New thinking in innovation game

How do we improve technology innovation in Australia? Better collaboration. More coordination. A longer term view. We may have heard it before, but that just confirms it is true...

No-one wants to say tech-bubble

Looks like a tech bubble. Walks like a tech bubble. Is a tech bubble.* That seems to be the quickly developing school of thought in the United States, where...

Heads Over Heels forge scale

Just 3 per cent of venture backed companies are backed by women; Heads Over Heels wants that to change. The organisation was established in Australia five years ago with...

Final call: Open Opportunity Forum

The energetic Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy will deliver a keynote live from Tel Aviv with an update on his trade mission to Israel, outlining new ideas for...

Feds tap Pollenizer for incubator

Sydney-based startup incubator and corporate accelerator Pollenizer has won a competitive bid process to partner with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to deliver DataStart – an open...

Telstra’s big Manila mobile move

Just two years ago, when he was finance chief, Telstra CEO Andy Penn was at pains to downplay any likelihood that Telstra would invest in any mobile infrastructure. The...

Betting, voting and innovation

In considering innovation policy in Australia it can be instructive to consider the history of innovation, not just its future. Melbourne Cup week provides a particularly good opportunity. One...

Data policy unit created in PM&C

The Turnbull Government has quietly merged three separate policy units related to public data, bringing them together within the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet as a key driver...

FinTech gold in Asia’s unbanked

The term ‘unbanked’ conjures all sorts of negative images, but the countless millions of ‘unbanked’ people in the Asia-Pacific region represent a tremendous opportunity for tech companies. More specifically,...

SAP’s one per cent challenge

SAP has launched its global Autism at Work initiative in Australia, which is a commitment to ensure that by 2020, one per cent of its total employee count will...