Manufacturing is the answer. I know this because back in May of this year I stood in front of Australia’s first gigafactory in the making. In Tomago, New South...
The Innovation Papers
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For the first time in my living memory, we are seeing a growing global appetite for science and technology discovery driven by global disturbances such as the pandemic and...
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In regional Western Australia, nearly 600km from Perth, a manufacturing hub is being established to help power the clean energy revolution. Brisbane-based company Pure Battery Technologies has commercialised research...
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Imagine you step back into your home on a cold evening and the house gently lights itself up to a warm, cosy ambience. This is probably a quintessential example...
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Australian healthcare has an opportunity to change the way we treat patients. We can put them at the centre of the system and in doing so dramatically improve health...
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Improving the innovation capability and outcomes in Australia requires a long-term strategy, just as it does in individual organisations. There is no short-term silver bullet. But there are nonetheless...
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As Australia encounters a rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it is easy to see that we are becoming a more connected nation. According to Grandview Research,...
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The space industry and its intertwined cousin the spatial industry are rapidly becoming a hotbed of innovation globally. Together they are developing the fundamental technology, data sources and products...
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CSL, Cochlear, and Gardasil are all great Australian biotech success stories; we have done it before. How do we do it again and again? With the $20 billion Medical...
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In March 2021, Facebook announced it was building Instagram for under-13s1. By May, 44 US Attorneys General had written to Mark Zuckerberg demanding that he stop the project because,...
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The food and agribusiness sector plays an important role in feeding Australians and is a fundamental pillar underpinning Australia’s economy. The sector, however, is not meeting its full potential....
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The Sutherland Shire Council in Sydney’s south is facing one of the biggest and most common challenges for local governments around the world. The coastal area is experiencing an...
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Innovation is about taking risks, but we waste a lot of time taking unnecessary risks with known failure modes and then acting surprised when the inevitable happens. Failures that...
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How governments, companies and communities procure and consume clean energy has the potential to transform and decarbonise Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) electricity grid. In the future, net zero...