Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, has welcomed the announcement that the government's independent review panel is now calling on industry and the public to put forward their submissions on how to foster a more effective national innovation system.
The Federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) announced this week that it will conduct a review of Australia's national innovation system with the aim of cutting the red tape for inventive tech SMEs.
The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) budget was cut back five percent by the Treasurer Budget day; that money has been earmarked for filling defence funding "black holes".
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged the government's ongoing support for a substantial CSIRO innovation program, after reports late last week that it intended to lower the organisations budget by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out the initiative.
NICTA revealed today that it has received an AU$25 million funding boost courtesy of the NSW government, as part of an initiative to put the state back in the ICT spotlight.
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Eric Benhamou, former chief executive of both 3Com and Palm, has just joined the board of Finjan and taken a minority stake in the web security company through his venture capital fund, Benhamou Global Ventures.
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Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.
Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.
The federal government has been great at experimenting with new technologies, said Gartner's government analyst, John Kost however our parliamentary system makes execution difficult because decisions to invest are not aligned with enforcement responsibilities.
David Skellern, CEO of NICTA said the Federal Government's AU$707 million slash of Commercial Ready, a SME grants program that subsidised innovation and commercialisation, will be a significant blow to innovation in Australia.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
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