Innovation-intensive companies are a focus for economic policymakers because they make an outsized contribution to productivity growth and economic well-being. This is well recognised by governments around the world....
A ten-year plan for NSW has set lofty goals to add an additional 1,800 innovation intensive firms and $27 billion to the economy, while cementing the state as Australia’s...
The NSW government has been ordered to release documents related to its overhaul of innovation policy, as a lengthy wait for a new state plan and cutbacks to grant...
The Sydney Startup Hub home to popular accelerators and dozens of budding companies will be shifted out of the CBD to the Tech Central precinct next year to get...
The NSW government’s slow-moving innovation blueprint is creating uncertainty in the startup capital, according to the opposition, which says entrepreneurs and investors need policy certainty to thrive. Industry and...
Investment NSW’ incoming deputy secretary has acknowledged the government needs to do more to support and capitalise on the deep technology being developed in the state ahead of a...
The NSW government will swing the axe on the Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade and subsume its industry, innovation, trade and investment functions into the Premier’s department. In...
The NSW government must become an equity exemplar by applying a new “gender lens” to its innovation funding, according to a group of experts that found a decade of...
Investment NSW has been inundated with requests from startups for funding under the MVP Ventures program after it was paused for six months last year, delaying the arrival of...
The reset of New South Wales innovation policy will get underway early next year at an ideas summit for industry, universities and all levels of government. Collaboration, diversity and...