Tag: National Innovation and Science Agenda

Husic on tech as economic security

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Expect much moaning and whinging from Federal Labor over the Coalition’s innovation efforts, but little in the way of actual policy until after the Opposition has a big, long...

Singapore gets its Landing Pad

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The fifth and final of Australia’s much-ballyhooed international ‘Landing Pads’ is now operational in Singapore. It joins those in San Francisco, Berlin, Shanghai and Tel Aviv. The Landing Pads are...

Long-termism is a policy imperative

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
This week the first trailer for the movie every tech-head has been waiting for popped up. I’m talking about the sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner,...

Hunt eyes huge new venture fund

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry Minister Greg Hunt is considering the launch of a huge new Commonwealth-backed venture fund to support Australian high-growth scale-ups and mid-tier innovators that have found it hard to...

The Coalition has done enough

Posted on   |  by James Riley
This eight week campaign has seen the technology and innovation policy debated more often and in more detail than any previous Federal election. This of course is a good...

Hackett: Policy tempo still lags

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Veteran Aussie tech entrepreneur Simon Hackett says we need to vastly raise the tempo of innovation policy to make venture capital work properly in this country as he wrangles...

FinTech deserves our backing, fast

Posted on   |  by Alex Scandurra
This week’s significant announcement Backing Australian Fintech by the Treasurer builds on the down-payment made last year by the Prime Minister and Ministers Christopher Pyne and Wyatt Roy in the National...

Turnbull’s board goes heavy on VC

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Malcolm Turnbull’s powerful new Innovation and Science Australia Board is heavy on venture capital and entrepreneurial representation and goes light on science and tertiary and institutional research. And it...

Landing Pads: a startup shoestring

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Austrade is firmly in charge of the five ‘landing pads’ that have been a centre of attention in Malcolm Turnbull’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. But government has so...