The National Reconstruction Fund’s inaugural chief investment officer Dr Mary Manning has joined a stellar line-up of speakers at the 2024 InnovationAus Awards for Excellence in Sydney on the...
Australian governments have been discussing innovation, advanced manufacturing, and the vision of making more (and more high-tech things) in Australia… for decades. Yet here we are in 2024, ranked...
Australia is a highly educated, ethnically diverse and resource-rich country with 159 billionaires; $3.4 trillion in superannuation savings; a $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia policy; a $272 billion...
The first anniversary of founding of the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation passed quietly this week, unheralded and without celebration. It’s first year of operation has attracted mixed reviews. If...
With so little government investment into artificial intelligence research to unlock economic advantage, Australia has become an “AI cargo cult” waiting for ‘magical’ new products and services to be...
The inaugural chief executive of the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation, Ivan Power, has stepped down less than a year into the role. His departure for health reasons has opened...
The establishment of a corporation in charge of the Albanese government’s $15 billion manufacturing fund is being audited, with an outside firm quietly tapped to assist the federal audit...
The first cohort of scaleups in the Albanese government’s flagship innovation pipeline program have been unveiled, with $7.4 million in grants to be shared by five companies. The local...
Australia’s Economic Accelerator has concluded its Seed pilot program by awarding $11 million in federal grants to 36 research projects that have demonstrated commercialisation and translation potential. The final...
In our increasingly complex 21st century world of net zero targets, green energy transitions, fractured geopolitics and technologically-driven systems change, even Realpolitech can accept that the desire for some...