The wealthy city-state of Singapore has once again displayed its relentless focus on providing leadership for the region on tech and innovation with the launch last week of a...
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In early September the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Artesian Capital announced that CEFC was committing $10 million in investment capital to a new ‘Clean Energy Seed Fund’ with...
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By any number of metrics, Springboard Australia is among the most successful accelerator program in this country. The fact that it is focused exclusively on the support and promotion...
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The Turnbull Government’s lack of a clear China policy came under the spotlight last week when Trade and Investment Minster Steve Ciobo visited Hong Kong in an effort to...
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One of Asia’s largest banks, HSBC, is the latest group to have belled the cat on the often sleepy Australian business community’s appreciation of the vast opportunities in Southeast...
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Australia is facing a severe shortage of cyber security specialists, says Richard Byfield, head of Datacom Technical Security Services. “There’s just not enough talented personnel,” Mr Byfield says. “It’s...
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Agricultural technology – AgriTech – has the potential to give Australia a $100 billion agricultural industry by 2030, says a new report. That’s a doubling in size in a...
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In a country where debates about innovation policy tend to be about city-based issues, it is noteworthy and significant that local AgriTech companies won four of the nation’s most...
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The Turnbull Government’s grandly named $11 million offshore initiative for Australian startups – the Global Innovation Program – will be firing on all five cylinders by October as the...
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It is fair to say that the Australian Government’s road to joining the multilateral Open Government Partnership has been long and somewhat tortured. But with the October 31 deadline...
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Cybersecurity is big business and an increasingly important business issue and these days is central to any discussion about protecting intellectual property. Certainly this was the case with the...
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Small businesses and startups need to lift their awareness of intellectual property issues and lock down IP early to protect their grey matter assets, according to the IP Australia....
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The technology race across the region continues to accelerate, even as the Turnbull Government’s wheels turn far more slowly to a re-positioning of its own innovation policy under Greg...
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IP Australia will lodge its first permanent offshore representative in Beijing as Australia’s innovation economy engages more closely with China as Chinese enforcement of intellectual property rights matures. IP...