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In search of micro-multinationals

Professor Roy Green is one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on innovation ecosystem policy. And like the rest of us, he’s feeling slightly deflated. The University of Technology Sydney Business...

Data governance a looming issue

Australia is lagging the US in its approach to information governance, placing enterprises and individuals at risk according to a nascent professional association. Information Governance ANZ is gearing up...

Not a good week for sector support

With the Ministry sworn in and the Shadow Ministry appointed we complete the transition from an election period back to normal government. It is also the point at which...

Carr rump proves hard to move

Opposition leader Bill Shorten’s self-described ‘Dream Team’ of an expanded Shadow Ministry is a mixed bag for the tech industry. The elevation of Jim Chalmers to Finance and Michelle...

ABS tallies slip in business smarts

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has produced a detailed report quantifying the level of innovation in Australian business. The results are not good. The amount of innovation being undertaken...

No internet means no cyber crime?

Singapore, the country that gave social engineering a good name, has come up with a sure-fire way to ensure its government computers are not hacked. It is disconnecting them...

RSA: Cyber shifts to business issues

Cybersecurity threats and expenditure are growing massively, with the emphasis moving strongly to business issues. That’s the key issue to come out of the fourth annual Asia Pacific RSA...

Industry policy turns to Defence

If the innovation flavour of the Turnbull Government was in its early days all about startups and software entrepreneurs, the tone of the Prime Minister’s new ministry points toward...

Frydenberg puts new energy in role

Liberal rising star Josh Frydenberg has had environment added to his energy portfolio. And it makes sense that the two are combined into one ministry, given how closely related...

Turnbull adds innovation Grunt

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull committed before the election to make only minor changes to his ministry. And true to his word, as ministerial reshuffles go, the post-election changes announced...

Steady as she goes for Comms roles

One the surface, with all-out, all-change in the innovation portfolio taking the spotlight in the sector, it’s very much steady as she goes in the new Turnbull Ministry’s communications...

Trimph: A medtech pioneer startup

An injectable biomaterial that can aid in the regeneration of damaged body tissues such as cartilage, spinal cord and bones will reduce the need for and risks of open...

DTO to face increased scrutiny

Malcolm Turnbull’s signature public sector innovation agency, the Digital Transformation Office, is set to come under intensified scrutiny in the next Parliament, with Labor already calling for an overhaul...

Husic gets tough on policy support

Whatever bipartisan support there has been for innovation policy will be delivered with a sharper edge in the next parliament, according to Labor digital innovation and startups spokesman Ed...