The number of Australian innovating Australian businesses fell in the two years ended 30 June 2021, according to new data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia’s core innovation indicators – innovation-active businesses and innovating businesses – were 52 per cent and 45 percent of all businesses respectively. Of the innovation-active businesses, 36 percent…
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By Peter Roberts Deputy Prime Minister and defence minister Richard Marles has pledged to strengthen Australia’s defence industries and integrate industry more closely with supply chains of our partners in the Aukus pact, the United States and the United Kingdom. Speaking at Centre for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, Marles said a key objective…
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A recently-completed 12-month R&D project provides an example of how applied research between industry and academia can proceed successfully. By the Innovative Manufacturing CRC. Deakin University and Geelong-based manufacturing start-up FormFlow have forged a symbiotic business relationship, arguably not seen enough between research institutions and industry in Australia. It began in 2016 when Dr Matt…
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BP and BOC have announced that a hydrogen refuelling station will be installed at BP’s Lytton truck stop and begin operating later this year, with its first customers to be the Queensland government’s fleet of five Hyundai NEXO vehicles.
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Brent Balinski speaks to Jon Bulman, Director of Manufacturing at Finisar, which has assembled and exported about $2 billion in optical products from Sydney, though would be a name unfamiliar to most Australians.
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Third NASA rocket launches from Arnhem Land Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), operator of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory has completed its third and final rocket launch with NASA. The NASA DEUCE mission will help astronomers measure an unstudied part of Centauri A and B’s ultraviolet light spectrum, helping them model stars…
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German-Australian manufacturer of quantum computing hardware, Quantum Brilliance has announced a collaboration with graphics processing unit (graphics card) manufacturer NVIDIA to accelerate the development of the world’s first hybrid quantum-classical computing platform. Announced today at quantum computing conference Q2B Tokyo, NVIDIA QODA is a new platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing, connecting traditional and quantum computers…
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Sydney based fertiliser business Agripower has made headway in a number of key markets in Australia and the middle east as it moves to commercialise its high silica, dry and liquid fertiliser, Agrisilica. Director Peter Prentice wrote to shareholders to tell them of progress in Middle East markets, tests that showed the product promoted carbon…
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By Peter Roberts Labor is back in power and that means a return to multi-party summits such as a Jobs and Skills Summit announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this week for the first and second of September. That will be welcomed by a manufacturing sector struggling with workplace issues ranging from a broken enterprise…
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By Bruce Mountain, Victoria University Earlier today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave his first major climate change speech, touting Australia’s future as a renewable superpower and promising Labor’s ambitious new renewable target would “unlock $52 billion of private sector investment.” This follows Labor’s pre-election commitment to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005…
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