Focus and finance were the dominant themes at Spotlight on Scaling Up, a recent half-day seminar by @AuManufacturing in partnership with AMGC, BDO, and the Australian Business Growth Fund. Keynote speakers Alf and Nadia Taylor shared their adventure from husband-and-wife engineering consultancy to an international food packaging and processing solution provider with a headcount of over 600…
It might be to put a new sales team on the ground in a new market. Or to import some expensive production kit and fly an expert over to teach your staff how to use it properly. Or you might need to bring in outside technical help to bring a tricky project up the last…
@AuManufacturing News and public accounting, tax, consulting and business advisory BDO are pleased to launch the online version of our September 19 webinar – Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here?. Following on from our successful editorial series and e-book, a panel discussion is moderated by Peter Roberts, and features expert manufacturing leaders discussing…
Incremental innovation rules for Serena Ross, the CEO of Circuitwise Electronics Manufacturing and one of our panellists at @AuManufacturing‘s webinar taking place this week on Thursday 19 September (more information and sign up here). Serena will discuss during the webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here?, how Circuitwise has been able to triple…
Why do so many Australians oppose spending money to stimulate manufacturing? Why is it so prevalent to think ‘Australia is not good at making things’? And why do we launch $100 billion government programmes such as the NBN, but buy most if not all the technology from overseas? These are some of the questions that…
As we near our latest webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here? (more information and sign up here) Dr John Howard asks whether Australia’s capital markets are failing to support innovative companies. Dr Howard will speak at the webinar which follows our editorial series and e-book Towards 3% – turbocharging Australia’s innovation effort.…
The Research and Development Tax Incentive will be one of the issues discussed during @AuManufacturing News and public accounting, tax, consulting and business advisory BDO’s latest webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here?. Following on from our editorial series and e-book on Australia’s faltering national research effort, the 19 September webinar features Nicola…
R&D spending in Australia is falling partly because a failure in the capital markets makes investors wary of investing in innovation, according to Dr John Howard, a speaker in our latest webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here? (information and sign up here) Innovative companies find it hard to list or gain support…
@AuManufacturing News and enterprise software company Epicor’s latest webinar, Lessons in Resilience is now available online for you to view here. The discussion, moderated by co-editor Peter Roberts, explored how manufacturers have used technology to survive and prosper in Australia’s difficult business environment. Digitisation, supply chain management, accessing and analysing data and workforce shortages were…
Ahead of @AuManufacturing and BDO’s webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here? on 19 September (information and sign up here) Stephanie Moscovis looks at Australia’s Trailblazer programme that is derisking research into decarbonising the economy. Research and development (R&D) is not just a process; it is the secret sauce of innovation, the driving…