By Clinton Fernandes, Professor, International and Political Studies, UNSW Silicon Valley may now be more popularly associated with software companies such as Google and Facebook but it takes its name from the material most used to make semiconductors. Semiconductors – or computer chips – power everything from mobile phones to military systems. The semiconductor industry…
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Finalists have been announced for the 2019 Banksia Sustainability Awards, with a winner to be announced on December 3.
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Brent Balinski spoke to Singapore Manufacturing Federation President Douglas Foo about keeping the sector relevant.
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Trade minister Simon Birmingham has announced a review of the Export Market Development Grants scheme.
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By Martin Cole, CSIRO and Mary Ann Augustin, CSIRO There is a revolution taking place in burger joints and supermarkets across Australia. Plant products that taste and behave like meat are increasingly making their way onto the plates of consumers as concern grows over the environmental impact of food production. This week the CSIRO launched…
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Listed gut health company Immuron (ASX: IMC) has received a $5.5 million grant from the US Department of Defence to develop a new oral drug targeting bacteria that cause ill health. The company, which markets Travelan for the prevention of travellers’ diarrhoea, will develop a combination anti-microbial preventative medicine for clinical evaluation. The product will…
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Perth satellite IoT communications company Sky and Space Global (ASX: SAS) is to raise new funds from investors to fund building and launching eight nano-satellites. Shareholders at a special meeting approved a proposed share placement and additions to the company’s board of directors. The company issued a brief statement which said: “Following shareholder approval, SAS…
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Cortical Dynamics has received regulatory approval which will lead on to an ability to sell its brain anaesthetic response monitoring (BARM) system device in South Korea. The Perth company’s Korean distributor, Globaluck, received a certificate of approval from the Korea Good Manufacturing Practice, according to an announcement by Cortical shareholder, bphenergy (ASX: BPH). The approval…
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Federal funding of $3.9 million was announced on Wednesday to establish the Australian Research Council’s Training Centre for the Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resource, headquartered at RMIT University.
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David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Australia’s ability to compete with other nations in a technology-enabled world is declining, according to a report recently released by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). In 2019 Australia dropped to 14th on the global league table of digital competitiveness, down from…
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