Applications are now open for companies to exhibit at this year’s Tech23, where $150,000 in innovation awards is up for grabs.
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Australia is a country of innovators and inventors. Sarah Scmitt explains why the need to protect Australian IP is enormous.
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Business partners Ben Lipschitz and Rick Munitz are a lawyer and an industrial designer brought together by a quest to revolutionise women’s footwear. Focusing on comfort and convenience, the 26-year-old entrepreneurs have invented a pair of thongs that triple-fold into a carry-anywhere pouch. “I had this idea, having seen a few girls walking around in [...]
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In a world first, Australian shipbuilding company Incat has secured a contract to build a high speed passenger ferry powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The 99 metre roll-on, roll-off ship will be delivered in 2012 to an unnamed overseas buyer. The ship will be the first fast craft built under the high speed craft [...]
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The World Rowing Championships in New Zealand are the venue for testing the water for a world-first computerised oar that measures performance. The Australian developed Arondight oar was launched at the Championships held from 31 October to 7 November at Lake Karapiro in the North Island. The Arondight technology collects data that shows exactly how [...]
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The Australian designed cochlear device has been implanted in nearly 200,000 patients worldwide, revolutionising sound perception for the profoundly deaf. In 1974, a commercial television station in Australia held a telethon to raise funds to take an obscure Australian biotech project to prototype. Four years later, the medical device was implanted in the first human [...]
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UK Trade & Investment, the UK’s international business development organisation, is offering business trendwatchers a chance to win a trip to the UK to meet with industry leaders if they can predict the next big business breakthrough. “From communications and transport, to product development and marketing, innovation is constantly transforming the world of business. Much [...]
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Minister for Trade Simon Crean has announced that Australia’s new national brand will be ‘Australia Unlimited’ to represent Australian quality, innovation and service worldwide. “Brand Australia is about selling Australia to the world and demonstrating the full versatility and diversity this nation has to offer. Being the ‘quiet achiever’ is not going to cut it [...]
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While Australia escaped the worst of the global financial crisis, there’s no doubt that a number of our destination markets were badly affected by the downturn. Fortunately, there were a number of exporters that not only survived, but also thrived in this period. Rise of the Phoenix The Bronze Age was thousands of years ago, [...]
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Australia lacks a high-technology framework, which will stifle IT innovation, according to John Owen, chief executive of Australian software developer QSR International. He says we are losing innovators to offshore locations that can provide better facilities. “Australia needs to move past the ‘digging it out of the ground and growing it mentality’ on which we [...]
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