If Australia’s AgTech sector gets a single mention in next week’s budget, it can only signal good news, according SproutX co-founder Andrew Lai. “AgTech doesn’t feature very much at...
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With a decade in Silicon Valley under her belt, Jennifer Zanich knows her way around startup culture, entrepreneurship and venture capital. She has recently started a role as head...
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A cloud-based student assessment tool to support teachers; a universal student identifier that tracks children through 13 years of school; and data-driven innovation from schools themselves are among the...
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South Australia saw a seven-fold increase in total investment funding during the 2018 March quarter, according the latest funding report from Techboard. The report showed that funding from the...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Princeton, and Berkeley were just some of the top universities that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) outranked in its top ten...
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The cost to taxpayers of government industry support measures continues to balloon, according to the Productivity Commission’s latest Trade and Assistance Review. And Commissioner Peter Harris has further warned...
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The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) has entered into the final design stage, following discussions by the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) Energy Council last week. Energy minister Josh Frydenberg,...
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CSIRO chief Larry Marshall has admitted Australia needs to lift its game in the light of a damning report card on patent filing, and has put up CSIRO’s hand...
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The growing influence of AI powered systems on our daily lives has got governments keen to be on top of the AI wave rather than paddling furiously to catch...
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Australia’s number one generator of intellectual property by patent applications in 2017 was poker machine king Aristocrat Technologies. The gambling technology outfit’s quest to find fresh ways to relieve...
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Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) chair Bill Ferris wants Australian companies to make structural and cultural changes to their boards of directors, and to look beyond simple gender balance...
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The federal government needs to provide more clarity on its cyber warfare capabilities and substantially increase funding to offensive cyber development remain competitive, according to an Australian Strategic Policy...
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Adelaide AgTech startup T-Provenance has raised $500,000 to pilot its blockchain technology with Northern Australian mango producers, as part of a two-year project being managed by the Cooperative Research...
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Contentious new legislation providing a framework for the sharing of confidential information regarding children has been passed by the Victorian parliament, despite concerns it may “erode the rights of...