Anyone working in the information technology and innovation sectors in Australia should be able to look back on 2015 as the year when everything began to change. At least...
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The Victorian Government must surely be comfortable front-runners in the competition between states to host the Commonwealth’s newly-announced $30 million Cyber Security Growth Centre. It remains a weird and not...
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The thing about giant policy announcements is that they invariably generate as many questions as they answer. This is especially the case when the policy is delivered by the...
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InnovationAus.com recently posed the question “Does innovation need connectivity?” Leigh Sales on ABC TVs 7:30 program had a crack at asking Prime Minister Turnbull a version of that same...
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Eight and a half years ago a group of ICT companies put together a report Energising Australian Innovation which was sub-titled “a 10 year Strategic Vision for the Australian...
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Arriving in sleepy Vientiane, the capital of Communist run Laos – one of the least populous nations in the region, with just six million people – last week, I was surprised...
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In his own inimitable way, the late communications minister Stephen Conroy, may have done Huawei Technologies something of a favour by barring the company from competing on the tender...
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Entrepreneurs don’t learn from replicating the success of other entrepreneurs. They learn from replicating their problem and innovating the solution. And so to the crux of the latest publication,...
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Culture, capital and commercialisation of research would form the backbone of the upcoming Innovation Statement, according to one of its principal architects Wyatt Roy. In a speech opening the...
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Ren Zhengfei, the enigmatic founder and chairman of China’s most successful international company Huawei Technologies is a hard man to pin down. He has only ever given a handful...
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If you believe the Australian Financial Review’s Phil Coorey, the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set to restore funding to Australia’s flagship ICT research and commercialisation agency, Data61. And...
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Vocus Communications’ may have signed on to a 50:50 joint venture to build a new US$120 million undersea fibre-optic cable between Australia and Singapore, but don’t expect that to...
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Anyone who has read enough self-help books will know that happiness is not something that you can ‘do’. But if you do a whole range of things, like keeping...
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After years of negotiation and numerous leaks, the official final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement has been released. About the only place where the hype meets reality is in...