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Labor startup plan gets big tick from industry

Labor’s proposal to spur innovation through loans to young entrepreneurs has received strong backing from the Australian startup community and technology universities, who expect the program would be oversubscribed...

Labor pitches ‘Startup Year’ in budget response

13 May 2021 | by Denham Sadler

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has placed the tech sector at the centre of his budget reply, pitching a “Startup Year” which would see graduates accessing university loans to launch...

Victoria hunts for $50m venture fund manager

3 May 2021 | by Denham Sadler

The Victorian government is on the hunt for a private manager for its $50 million venture growth fund, which aims to use venture debt to fill a funding gap...

Vic govt funds ‘Australia first’ AI program

24 February 2021 | by Denham Sadler

The Victorian government has a mission of positioning the state as a “world-leading innovation hub” with significant funding in the recent budget and a new $1.5 million investment in...

Murray Hurps leaves AIIA board a year early

14 December 2020 | by James Riley

Startup sector luminary and director of entrepreneurship at the University of Technology Sydney Murray Hurps has resigned from the board of the Australian Information Industry Association halfway through his...

NSW to build a second Sydney Startup Hub

8 December 2020 | by James Riley

The New South Wales government is to fund the creation of a second Startup Hub located in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta in an investment designed to put...

Victoria to launch $25m venture growth fund

24 November 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The Victorian government will launch a $25 million venture growth fund in an effort to keep startups in the state, a significant policy shift on tech for the state...

The economic benefits of software R&D

14 October 2020 | by Nick Therkelsen-Terry

Confirmation this week that the Federal Parliament has passed into law the research and development tax incentive (RDTI) will come as welcome news for the thousands of organisations which...

RDTI should be reserved for startups only

9 October 2020 | by James Riley

The federal Government’s R&D Tax Incentive largesse should go exclusively to startups and not big business, says one of Australia’s foremost software entrepreneurs. Big companies can survive without RDTI,...

PM flags fresh changes to R&D tax scheme

2 October 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flagged that fresh changes to the government’s controversial plan to cut $1.8 billion from the research and development tax incentive will be included in...

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