The Australian innovation landscape is filled with success stories addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges. From creating ‘version 2’ of food as consumption skyrockets, to changing the face...
The CSIRO’s former deputy chief scientist Dr Jill Freyne is now Amazon Web Services’ healthcare industry manager, her first private sector role since joining the national science agency 15...
Experts have called on the government to channel more of its industry and clean energy funding into circular economy ventures to help meet ambitious new re-use targets and keep...
The CSIRO’s newest spinout is going after a geospatial mapping and digital twin market that is booming thanks to an explosion in data, after commercialising its technology over a...
Australian scientists are teaming with a British BioTech to tackle two of the deadliest virus-carrying mosquitos in the Pacific region and fight deadly diseases with mutant specimens that decimate...
A new AI research centre has been set up in South Australia, bringing together experts from the CSIRO’s digital arm Data61 and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML)...
Renewables continue to be the cheapest new-build electricity-generating technology, while nuclear power is around twice as expensive and has “no unique cost advantages” from its long operational life, despite...
Realising Australia’s green hydrogen production targets could yield an electrolyser manufacturing opportunity worth more than $1.7 billion a year by 2050 if government delivers support for local procurement, according...
A Newcastle venture using breakthrough CSIRO solar thermal technology to reduce industrial emissions has raised $15 million, claiming the biggest ever seed funding round for a CSIRO spinout. Announced...
Government procurement policies are being underutilised as an innovation lever, according to experts, who warn Australia’s main program lacks scale and buying rules still aren’t optimised for industry growth....