The patent box scheme will be expanded to include the agricultural and low emissions technology sectors and opened to a wider range of intellectual property, despite the initiative still...
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Great ideas don’t mean much if they’re not communicated properly. When it comes to deep tech, founders often tend to believe that there’s no point communicating their idea to...
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A consortium known as the Australian Space Manufacturing Network and led by Gilmour Space Technologies has secured $52 million in federal funding to manufacture launch vehicles and satellites and...
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South Australian Deputy Premier Susan Close will also serve as the state’s industry and science minister in the Labor government’s new Cabinet. Premier Peter Malinauskas announced his Cabinet on...
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A multi-billion-dollar deal between the Commonwealth, Victorian government and Moderna has been inked, with an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility to be up and running by 2024. After signing an...
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Local companies need to be more aware of their blind spots when it comes to supply chain risk – particularly in relation to the cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protections...
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Australia’s National AI Centre has unveiled ambitious targets to improve skills, business adoption and “AI vibrancy” within two years. It will do this by facing up to Australia’s AI...
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A bipartisan Senate committee has rejected a bill that would strip the Education minister of research funding veto powers, despite widespread community support and an unprecedented backlash to the...
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A new Western Australia-based supply chain development program for supporting low emissions technologies was launched on Thursday by National Energy Resources Australia with the state government. The Western Australian...
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Human rights and health groups have urged the Australian government to back a full waiver of intellectual property rules around Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments after labelling a leaked...
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Pay-day loan companies and other non-bank lenders will be added to Australia’s data portability scheme under the federal government’s plan to expand the Consumer Data Right across the finance...
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Researchers at Curtin University have recovered a meteorite in the Western Australian outback using a new drone-mounted AI scanner. The meteorite was recovered at the end of last year...
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Australian tech company Q-CTRL has demonstrated that its software tools can deliver up to a 9000 times increase in quantum algorithmic success, marking an “enormous step” towards achieving quantum...
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In a year marked by so much public discussion about the importance of diversity, it is heartening to see such impressive female representation among our chief scientists around the...