Tag: United States Studies Centre

Hard questions on soft skills

Posted on   |  by Andrew Herrmann
Technology is rapidly reshaping the workplace, bringing demand for new skills. But the skills that will define successful future workers have always been integral. As many of the routine...

Tough decisions time for Canberra

Posted on   |  by Jared Mondschein and Don Scott-Kemmis
Bob Hawke helped make Australia’s economy globally competitive by making the tough but necessary choice of opening it up to the world. There is no simply denying that, more...

What Australia can learn from SBIR

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Microsoft was founded in 1975, and Apple and Genentech in 1976. This strong signal of a shift in the locus of innovation away from large firms – like IBM...

Aussie AgTech dramatically behind

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia is “losing a race we should be winning” on AgTech, with local investment in the sector “dramatically behind” the rest of the world, a new report has found....

Tech’s elephant in the room

Posted on   |  by Jared Mondschein
Innovation is about change and new thinking. You would hardly know that from the recent AFR Innovation Summit, which featured speakers making the same well-known talking points, including the...

The debate the nation must have

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The trouble with worthy and weighty industry reports on the performance of our tech and innovation ecosystems is that they’re so heavy that within a few weeks they have...