Tag: Startups

Vic govt funds ‘Australia first’ AI program

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government has a mission of positioning the state as a “world-leading innovation hub” with significant funding in the recent budget and a new $1.5 million investment in...

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 to build a second Sydney Startup Hub

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The New South Wales government is to fund the creation of a second Startup Hub located in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta in an investment designed to put...

Victoria to launch $25m venture growth fund

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government will launch a $25 million venture growth fund in an effort to keep startups in the state, a significant policy shift on tech for the state...

The economic benefits of software R&D

Posted on   |  by Nick Therkelsen-Terry
Confirmation this week that the Federal Parliament has passed into law the research and development tax incentive (RDTI) will come as welcome news for the thousands of organisations which...

RDTI should be reserved for startups only

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal Government’s R&D Tax Incentive largesse should go exclusively to startups and not big business, says one of Australia’s foremost software entrepreneurs. Big companies can survive without RDTI,...

PM flags fresh changes to R&D tax scheme

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flagged that fresh changes to the government’s controversial plan to cut $1.8 billion from the research and development tax incentive will be included in...

FIRB reforms will ‘imperil’ quantum sector

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Proposed changes to Australia’s foreign investment rules will “imperil” the future of the country’s quantum computing sector and severely disadvantage local tech companies, according to a number of submissions...

FinTech, data rights and a Newfound mission

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Australia’s consumer data right legislation doesn’t just exist to open up the banking sector, it’s for making the product matching and switching process much easier in an increasingly wide...