A challenge-based innovation program could fund your R&D
Funding A growing number of increasingly diverse, challenge-based innovation programs are creating win-win opportunities for business, research and government to work together to solve real-world problems. For example, the Australian Government challenges and funds innovators...
gemaker rewards young innovators at Australia’s largest science fair
Innovation For the tenth year in a row, the University of Wollongong ran the Illawarra Coal Science Fair on 29 November. The 2017 Fair was the biggest ever, attracting more than 1000 students from 85 schools around the region. Associate Professor Stephen Ralph, Head of UOW’s...
What Australian research and innovation can learn from Iceland’s soccer team
Government Relations Australians are famously sports mad*. Half our television bulletins are devoted to the latest sporting results and disgraced athletes regularly make the front page of the nation’s newspapers. But it’s not often the chief scientist gets on the sports bandwagon. Which...
What a party – Tech23 2015 – Celebrating Australian Innovation!
Innovation I was lucky enough to attend to my first start-up community event – Tech23 2015, held on November 17. It’s an annual event that showcases 23 startups with high growth potential and technical expertise that are tackling big problems. As a result, the event...