For a couple of years now, the Australian Government has had a Smart Cities plan. It has website devoted to the subject, and has appointed up-and-comer Angus Taylor as...
Skills
Posted on
| by James Riley
The construction of Australia’s first grid-scale battery storage facility in Victoria should provide big opportunities for the state’s innovation and research sectors. The Victorian Government is currently accepting tenders...
Posted on
| by James Riley
In 1983, while he was a young banker working in Sydney’s growing financial markets, Adam Lyle joined the NSW Entrepreneurs Workshop. His first project was a stair-wheelchair. While financially...
Posted on
| by Kevin Keith
In Victorian England, poverty grew from the shadows of wealth. Slums slumped against symbols of civic pride, cowering next to towering town halls funded through rich merchant princes, whose...
Posted on
| by Michael Sainsbury
Newspaper and internet group Fairfax last week confirmed the media sector’s worst kept secret as it unveiled a damp squib of a half year result: that it is considering...
Posted on
| by Denham Sadler
When Springboard Enterprises founder Kay Koplovitz was asked to bring her development program for female entrepreneurs to Australia nine years ago she thought it was pointless. “I said there’s...
Posted on
| by James Riley
The Australian Taxation Office’s just-published alert aimed at companies seeking R&D tax benefits for software development activity has landed among high-growth startups like a bombshell. The advice is confusing...
Posted on
| by Denham Sadler
The Victorian Government is on the hunt for a new LaunchVic chairman following outgoing Australia Post boss Ahmed Fahour’s resignation from the state’s $60 million innovation fund. Mr Fahour...
Posted on
| by Brian Lee-Archer
If work isn’t the cornerstone of our society, then why so much focus on the jobs of the future and the impact of the digital economy? Labour mobility is...
Posted on
| by Denham Sadler
Blackbird Ventures, one of Australia’s most esteemed venture capital firms investing in early stage tech companies, has begun making deliberate efforts to improve the gender diversity of its portfolio...
Posted on
| by Denham Sadler
Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos will establish a women’s advisory roundtable to guide the Commonwealth policy related to gender diversity and equality issues in the science and innovation sectors. Speaking...
Posted on
| by James Riley
The Jobs for NSW proposal to lease up to 15,000 square metres of CBD office space to create a Sydney Startup Hub is the most interesting thing to happen...
Posted on
| by Brian Lee-Archer
Cities are centres of population, commerce, and culture while communities are groups of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Think city and...
Posted on
| by Denham Sadler
After a tumultuous and ‘exhausting’ four-year journey, the government’s equity crowdfunding bill is set to safely pass through the Senate next month, despite being dubbed a “dodo” and “self-defeating”...