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Redback cranks Aussie battery tech

Solar and other forms of renewable energy have been in the news recently. Much of the attention has been on the Government’s equivocation on Australia’s renewable energy target, and...

Rebalancing the R&D tax scheme

Australia’s new Chief Scientist and deputy chair of Innovation and Science Australia Alan Finkel has outlined a compelling case for increasing Government’s direct investment in business R&D as a...

Infrastructure Aust urges NBN push

In the latest Australian Infrastructure Plan it was easy to be distracted by its recommendations on privatising assets, including the NBN. It wasn’t the only reference in the plan....

Open data gets location boost

There is a real-world aphorism that tells us the three most important contributors to a successful business is location, location and location. It turns out this is equally true...

ANZ Bank nabs Google’s Maile

ANZ Bank has snared former Google boss Maile Carnegie as group executive of its digital banking group reporting directly to the CEO, Shayne Elliott. The appointment, which came out...

No surprises in Shanghai surprise

There’s an increasingly disappointing air of predictability that is settling over Malcolm Turnbull’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. And that, one would have thought, is quite the opposite to...

Di Marco’s seven year renewal cycle

Technology One is about to start reinventing itself again, and it hasn’t even concluded the last overhaul. Founder and executive chairman Adrian Di Marco is adamant that companies have to...

R&D tax scheme tricky for startups

There are pitfalls for startups in the federal government’s R&D offset scheme for applicants who are planning to bootstrap their business from revenue and believe they will get back...

Immigration’s path less travelled

The creation of a new digital division within the department of Immigration and Border Protection and the appointment of a Chief Digital Officer is the model that other Commonwealth...

The digital future of work in Australia

A report on the future of work was released on Friday at a grand affair at the Sydney Opera House. The report looks at the effects of technology on...

Tony Turnbull’s FinTech foray

Sir Humphrey Appleby this week smashed a bottle of bubbly over the bow of a new FinTech committee, blessing all who sail in her. At least I assume it...

Aussie IPO scene in rude health

Stock markets in Australia and globally have been shaky recently, but companies that floated on the ASX in 2015 have done well. The IPO (Initial Public Offering) scene in...

Fifield: The lost child of Cabinet

Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, that Tony Abbott is still Prime Minister and is busy executing his groundbreaking innovation strategy. Then imagine that he has a...

SIV torrent turns to a slow trickle

The geyser of mainly Chinese money meant to fertilize Australia’s venture capital and startup sectors, and small cap companies, via the government’s recast Significant Investment Visa scheme has largely...