Senate to reconsider R&D tax incentive The Senate sits this week and is likely to reconsider the government’s controversial R&D tax incentive reforms which are similar to those previously opposed even by Coalition senators. The government responded to Senate concerns with a slightly modified bill in December, however the changes have not allayed the concerns…
Adelaide-based space company Southern Launch is planning a second rocket launching site at Koonibba, in the far west of South Australia. The company has already been granted major project status for the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex (pictured) on the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula which will allow access to Polar Earth Orbits. The site…
Global hydrogen advocacy group, the Hydrogen Council, predicts the cost of producing green hydrogen from renewables will fall by up to 50 per cent in the next decade as production scales up. The council’s report, Path to Hydrogen Competitiveness: A Cost Perspective, shows that hydrogen can follow a similar downward trend in prices as solar…
Biotechnology start-up Next Science (ASX: NXS) recorded strong sales growth in 2018 as acceptance grew of its novel technologies to kill bacteria. The Sydney company reported sales of $6.1 million for the year of its Xbio technology products which attack the biofilm that surrounds and protects bacteria. Four of its products have secured US FDA…