The NSW government’s innovation advisory board will remain empty until a government review with no hard deadline is completed, effectively cutting off independent advice that had been in place...
The Sydney chapter of the Techstars accelerator program will not run in 2026 and its team will exit, with the NSW government signalling it will shift focus towards a...
An expert body that has advised on innovation policy in New South Wales for the last 30 years faces an uncertain future as the state government sets out to...
New investment models and a dedicated scaleup plan are needed to build up NSW’s industrial “missing middle”, according to the government’s innovation council, which found growing firms are underserved...
New South Wales is producing some of the world’s best innovation inputs like research and workforce but is struggling to turn them into outputs like economic growth and productivity....
For more than 30 years, Australia has punched well above its weight in the contest for global talent. We receive three per cent of annual global migration, despite making...
The NSW Innovation and Productivity Council (IPC) released a first-time report on the economic impact that different businesses sizes have when measured against key indicators like numbers of jobs...
Globally significant innovation precincts, from Silicon Valley to Herzliya in Tel Aviv and Tech City in London, have their own momentum. They don’t just attract some of the best...
Government should take a leadership role in building the cultural and liveability infrastructure needed to develop innovation precincts, but more direct public support for them also helps underpin success,...
NSW Innovation and Productivity Council chair Neville Stevens has called for both sides of politics at state and federal to take a bipartisan approach to improving Australia’s overall innovation...