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InnovationAus Awards 2021: Here are our outstanding finalists

It is an enormous pleasure to announce the outstanding finalists across 11 categories for the inaugural InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence. Putting this awards program together has been one...

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Advanced Manufacturing finalists

The spotlight was shone firmly on Australia’s advanced manufacturing sector late last year when Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a $1.5 billion manufacturing strategy. This included the $1.3 billion...

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Wildcard category finalists

The InnovationAus 2021 WildCard Award celebrates unique and innovative Australian individuals and companies that are so unique and innovative that they don’t fit into the other categories. The category...

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Energy and Renewables finalists

With every state and territory setting net zero emissions targets and billions of investment dollars flooding in, green technology and renewable energy is poised to disrupt almost every sector...

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Food and AgriTech finalists

Food and AgriTech has been one of Australia’s most promising innovative sectors of the economy, with a rapidly growing startup ecosystem emerging around it.  The food industry has been...

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Cybersecurity finalists

The cybersecurity defences of many privately-run Australian companies have become a national priority, with the federal government set to soon pass critical infrastructure laws that would allow the government...

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Defence finalists

The defence sector is a fundamental pillar of Australian industrial development policy. The Prime Minister Scott Morrison made this abundantly clear when he added “Science and Technology” to Defence...

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Research Translation finalists

Australia’s universities are under pressure to translate their world-leading research into commercial outcomes after the loss of international students and growing scrutiny of translation by the federal government. It’s...

Bionics: from science fiction to science fact

“We can rebuild him. We have the technology.” was a well-known phrase in the 1970s. It came from long-running US TV series The Six Million Dollar Man, about fictional...