The Albanese government has dissolved the Entrepreneurs’ Programme advisory committee, sweeping away one of the last vestiges of the Coalition’s former flagship industry program. The Entrepreneurs’ Programme Committee was...
The federal government has quietly, almost silently, appointed four new directors to the board of Industry, Innovation and Science Australia (IISA) to fill vacancies that had been open for...
The New South Wales government has tapped Sydney Metro enterprise security leader Marie Patane to take over the challenging role of securing the state’s critical systems and data holdings....
The federal government’s peak advisory body on industrial policy, Industry, Innovation and Science Australia, has not provided published advice since 2023. It has no chair and no deputy chair....
Australia has started 2025 without a Chief Scientist and without a chair or deputy chair for its primary industry, innovation and science advisory board. Former Australian chief scientist Dr...
Recent research shows that investment in Australian startups fell by 30 per cent in 2022 on the previous year. That’s substantially less than the global decline of 35 per...
“A problem well defined is a problem half-solved” is a wise quip attributed to Charles Kettering, the head of research at General Motors nearly a century ago. “Magical thinking”...
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...
The Board of Taxation has recommended business as usual for the administration of the research and development tax incentive and rejected the concept of a separate scheme just for...
An $85 million federal government commitment from the 2018 budget to improve the compliance of the Research and Development Tax Incentive only led to 5 per cent of the...