Tag: CSIRO

Are there no women in Camelot?

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The list of senior leadership appointments to the Commonwealth’s innovation infrastructure is impressive, bringing a diversity of business and commercial experience to the roles that had perhaps been lacking....

Riding startup herd with Wyatt Roy

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It didn’t really matter who Wyatt Roy invited to his first Policy Hack event, held in partnership with the Sydney incubator/accelerator Blue Chilli. He was always going to be...

What next for tech, Malcolm?

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Malcolm Turnbull is offering Australia a different style of leadership. He has promised to be more consultative, more collegiate. Tony Abbott offered the same, but didn’t deliver. And Malcolm...

Alston backs Data61’s Turner

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With its creation last Friday heralded ingloriously by a “taking out the trash” ministerial statement, Data61 was the best outcome among many unappealing alternatives, according to NICTA board member...

NICTA now calls CSIRO home

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Australia has a new research agency today with the creation of Data61 from the merged interests of Australia’s premier ICT research house NICTA, with the Digital Productivity flagship of...

Thodey Part 2: data analytics is key

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Australia is facing a skills shortage in the key field of data analytics, amid concerns from incoming CSIRO chief David Thodey that the nation’s education system does not make...

Thodey: It’s time for new thinking

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Incoming CSIRO chairman and former Telstra chief executive David Thodey has called for a national policy framework and agenda for the technology sector that encompasses the federal and state...

Innovation Index: what a crock

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In releasing its strategy document Australia’s Innovation Catalyst the CSIRO has described the document as “its masterplan to improve Australia’s record in innovation and help the country respond to...

Creating better research returns

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Chris Pyne’s higher education research review addresses a familiar problem in Australia that has been looking for a long term solution for decades. That is, the nation produces some...