Tag: Startups

Entrepreneur visa opens new doors

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The creation of an entrepreneur visa was always a good idea. Australia has visa streams specifically designed to attract capital, and others to attract business and technical skills that...

StartupAus: The politics of power

Posted on   |  by James Riley
StartupAus is a hugely influential voice in the Australian tech and innovation landscape. It is self-described as the “peak advocacy group for startups.” But the thing about StartupAus is...

Govt defines a creative innovation

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Malcolm Turnbull has made a big deal about innovation. His Government’s new National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA), released last December, made broad announcements about tax and other incentives...

CSIRO shakeout is all about data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The CSIRO will shed 350 jobs and redirect its research priorities as part of a major shake-up under new CEO Larry Marshall, that includes an organisation-wide focus on data...

Looking for love in the Lion City

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Singapore has come out of the Asia Pacific’s increasingly competitive technology blocks fast in 2016. Its all-seeing government is set to streamline the state agencies that oversee and invest...

Data61 confronts next big challenge

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is a lot to like about Data61 and the unmatched ambition of its strategic plan, announced to the media a week ago. And there is a lot to...

DataStart may take startup equity

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Commonwealth is considering a significant expansion of its DataStart program as an ongoing mechanism for finding data solutions to government challenges, and to help fund new companies, Innovation...

Asia cranks up startup engine

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
If there was any doubt that the billions of dollars that has been pouring into the Asian technology sector was in danger of drying up in the face of...

Now to focus on entrepreneurship

Posted on   |  by Tony Surtees
This week it’s all been about ‘innovation’. It is simply not possible to overestimate the importance of the Australian National Innovation and Science Agenda. It’s a big, big step...