If you think that you have to be in Sydney or Melbourne to successfully launch that business idea of yours, you can’t be further away from the truth. What’s...
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Australia looks like throwing its lot in with the UK-originated Hypercat Alliance as a technology standard for the Internet of Things to support the development of smart cities. Hypercat...
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Australia has a proud history of being at the forefront of enacting legislation that eliminates our myriad inequalities. In the extension of basic human rights, it has been an...
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Agricultural technology – AgriTech – has the potential to give Australia a $100 billion agricultural industry by 2030, says a new report. That’s a doubling in size in a...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ramped up pressure on the telecommunications industry in an effort to give consumers “better information about broadband speeds, to improve competition...
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The Digital Transformation Office’s newly-launched Digital Marketplace creates a mechanism for government to buy more local technology, but some baked-in attitudes about tech vendors may also need to be...
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In a country where debates about innovation policy tend to be about city-based issues, it is noteworthy and significant that local AgriTech companies won four of the nation’s most...
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Former Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy has bounced back after the bruising experience of the July federal election, taking an independent directors role at H2Oean, the proposed listed...
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Diversity is Victoria’s competitive advantage and the key differentiator to building the Number One ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific region, according to Innovation Minister Philip...
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Since Telstra announced a $246 million impairment on its video startup investment Ooyala, views have ranged from the difficulty it reveals for Telstra shifting from a telephone to a...
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The Turnbull Government’s grandly named $11 million offshore initiative for Australian startups – the Global Innovation Program – will be firing on all five cylinders by October as the...
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The Australian Government has taken a major step forward on its road to reforming procurement practices with the launch this week of a new Digital Marketplace for buyers and...
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Melbourne academic and telecommunications specialist Mark Gregory has joined InnovationAus.com as a columnist. His views will appear regularly. Dr Gregory is well known in the industry for his passion...
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Malcolm Turnbull and Ziggy Switkowski’s ever-moving, ever-changing NBN Co has released its 2017 Corporate Plan. Once again, the company has bombarded readers with so many numbers that it’s hard...