Tag: Murray Hurps

Scorecard sparks debate on the future of NSW innovation

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
New South Wales is producing some of the world’s best innovation inputs like research and workforce but is struggling to turn them into outputs like economic growth and productivity....

Meet the judges: 2024 Awards for Excellence

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
With the deadline for entries fast approaching, it is a great pleasure to introduce our panel of judges for the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence 2024, the industry’s most prestigious...

Five years on, the Startup Muster gets a 2023 reboot

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Five years after its last report, the Startup Muster has been given a massive reboot with new funding support from the NSW government and the Atlassian Foundation to deliver...

Murray Hurps leaves AIIA board a year early

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Startup sector luminary and director of entrepreneurship at the University of Technology Sydney Murray Hurps has resigned from the board of the Australian Information Industry Association halfway through his...

NSW sovereign capability taskforce named

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The NSW government has named a 23-person ICT/Digital Sovereign Procurement Taskforce charged with making it easier for innovative local tech companies to get access to government contracts, using procurement...

Fast growth startups crucial to recovery: Hurps

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The local startup sector will be crucial to economic recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, with further government support needed for early-stage firms, University of Technology Sydney...

Active startups now in decline

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The number of active startups in Australia has declined along with the number of women involved with the sector, a “massively concerning” new report has revealed. Startup Muster, an...

Millennials not so entrepreneurial?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A study has revealed that millennials are less entrepreneurial than other generations even though some the most successful people are part of that generation – think Mark Zuckerberg of...

Murray Hurps’ big new data gig

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An inability to access large data sets is holding back the next generation of potentially huge Australian tech companies, former Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps said. Mr Hurps, who finished...