For the first time since 2018 Australia’s digital competitiveness ranking has improved, rising six places to 14th, although this remains below the country’s fifth place peak in 2015. The...
Despite describing China’s state-owned Northern Rare Earths as a “perfect case study” in scaling rare earth metal production, Lynas Rare Earths chief executive Amanda Lacaze said emulation is not...
Australian businesses have demanded a larger role in a new Australian innovation plan after years of inconsistent and ineffective industry policies which have seen Australia fall behind the “global...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission must become a “digital savvy regulator” to tackle growing regulatory challenges including crypto assets and investment scams according to its chair Joseph Longo....
Australia has the talent and the capital to turn its science innovations into economic advantage at scale, according to the experts leading the current commercialisation push. But a culture...
South Australian Deputy Premier Susan Close has encouraged the space sector not to overlook applications of space tech that can help manage the effect of climate change as space...
Australia has recorded a slight increase in its global competitiveness thanks to short-term economic factors, but this is masking longer-term issues around lagging productivity, low rates of entrepreneurship and...
Despite the potential to expand the Australian economy by at least more than $252 billion over the next decade, uptake of software-as-a-service has still not been widespread, according to...
The government is wary of over-regulating new technologies such as artificial intelligence and will resist making ethics standards and codes mandatory for Australian businesses, Digital Economy minister Jane Hume...
Australia is facing an enormous productivity challenge, with an urgent need for governments at all levels to drive digitisation and the reskilling of workers, the 2021 Intergenerational Report has...