Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has been appointed to drive Australia’s commitments to the multilateral Open Government Partnership, despite the architects of the National Action Plan remaining in the Department...
Research
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Curtin University is pulling out all stops to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship. As one of Australia’s largest tertiary institutions, it aims to set the tone for undertaking research that...
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Australia’s Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma is in the country for a couple weeks, in part to drum up business for Austrade’s new startup ‘Landing Pad’ in Tel Aviv....
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As the deadline for ratifying the Paris climate accord arrives today (Nov. 4) with a dull thud for a government that has – 11 months later – singularly failed...
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Innovation and technology will be used as the hooks for Sydney University to launch its first research centre in China – indeed its first facility of any kind –...
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InnovationAus.com is proud to announce Queensland Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy has joined a stellar line-up of keynote speakers at the Sydney instalment of Open Opportunity...
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The old investment banker in Malcolm Turnbull would have been secretly chuffed at the recipient of this year’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation. Mr Turnbull had a glittering career...
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Start thinking ‘innovation as usual’ as the norm rather than the exception, and expressing innovation in terms of the business rather than the system. That’s the mind-set Victoria’s Lead...
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Here’s a new phrase for you, from the jargon generation factory, otherwise known as research group Gartner. The firm’s latest predictions on the size and growth rate of the...
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Taking over where the former Premier Peter Beattie’s Smart State vision left off, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Advance Queensland Program aims to make sure that Queensland stays on course to be...
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Innovation and Science Australia’s decision to appoint an outside consulting house to design a strategy to build Australia’s innovation eco-system is baffling and denigrates the public service resources available...
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Graeme Samuel has launched a last ditch bid to head off mandated data breach notification laws and what he describes as “heavy-handed federal regulation”. The former competition tsar and...
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Australia, long a leader in radio astronomy, is maintaining its premier position with the world’s largest and most innovative radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA, to...
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Being big is not always a prerequisite for being successful. Just ask the South Australian Chief Scientist Dr Leanna Read: If you place your bets in the right areas...