Tag: USSC

AUSMIN and the Indo-Pacific’s digital future

Posted on   |  by Claire McFarland & Brendan Thomas-Noone
The response to COVID-19 is having a transformational effect on the use of digital technologies in Australia, the United States and many other parts of the world. But the...

Entrepreneurial surge is a silver lining

Posted on   |  by Claire McFarland
Most of the politics of the pandemic have pitted health outcomes against the economy. In health terms, Australia is doing well in avoiding the full brunt of the global...

On the Defense Production Act and ResMed

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act as a response to coronavirus in early April it provided a stark acknowledgement of supply-chain gaps not only in the...

Tough lessons of the bionic eye

Posted on   |  by James Riley
‘Australia punches above its weight’. It’s a claim guaranteed to increase my blood pressure. As a science writer and broadcaster, last with The Australian, I appreciated the quality and...

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...