Any discussion about Australia’s R&D sector generally starts off by claiming that ‘Australia has spent billions on R&D over the past thirty years.’ That is true, we have. And yet, despite these billions, Australia ranks in the middle at the best, and in many measures well below, our OECD counterparts.
Brisbane’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub has marked its first year of operating and noted a “huge and growing appetite for Australian businesses to innovate.”
ASX-listed metal additive manufacturing company Titomic has announced a UK joint venture with Neos International for production of Invar 36 faceplates using Titomic’s technology.
Australian manufacturing’s strong start to 2021 has continued according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index, which recorded its best result since March 2018 and the sixth straight month of strong recovery since the lows of the pandemic.
The federal government is “behind the eight ball” on the fast-growing space sector, with homegrown companies teaming up to build sovereign capability in the absence of Commonwealth funding support.
The second call for applications this week under the federal Modern Manufacturing Initiative has been made, with these now open for defence projects.
All founders take a leap of faith built on their confidence that they will reach the other side. Peter Arnold looked at 1,500 high-growth UK start-ups for his new book, Innovation of a Nation. Here is a little about what he found out.
Fleet Space Technologies and Gilmour Space Technologies have announced plans to put six nanosatellites in orbit in 2023. The contract signing announcement follows news last week of the launch of Fleet’s fifth nanosatellite, aboard Rocket Lab’s They Go Up So Fast mission from New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula. Fleet plans to eventually have 140 such satellites…
Darwin/Melbourne-based additive manufacturing company Speed3D has announced that it will release a free-to-download simulator on April 16.
Nine companies have been selected for a place in the Venture Catalyst Space program to help them grow into space industry leaders.
