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James Riley

James Riley

Editorial Director at InnovationAus.com

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    Just how sovereign does our tech sector need to be?

    Australian policymakers face a very particular challenge in relation to the artificial intelligence and its contribution to productivity, according to Vault Cloud chief executive Rupert Taylor-Price. That is how to build a nuanced set of industry policy that both attracts the large-scale foreign investments and best-in-class overseas technology to Australia, while simultaneously developing a sovereign AI capability with building export-facing products. And these policies must also cater to the national security requirements that are increasingly bound together with technology roll-out decisions. Vault is a secure and sovereign cloud infrastructure provider certified in Australia to carry workloads classified to the Top Secret level. It is a sovereign Australian company that is also building operations in the United States and Britain.
    5 months ago
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    News Wrap: The Horizon Europe giant looms into view

    The Australian Academy of Science’s Shine Dome in Canberra was the venue for a detailed and surprisingly upbeat briefing on the Horizon Europe research funding program this week. It was ‘surprisingly upbeat’ because, despite Australia not being an active member of the long-running Horizon Europe program, there is growing optimism within the research community that government has engaged in a process toward joining. Horizon Europe is the largest single research fund in the world (at A$170 billion) encouraging research collaboration among the EU member countries, as well as with “associate member” countries from outside of the EU.
    5 months ago
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    News Wrap: Gilmour, Farquhar and the launch of bold ideas

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers called on the select participants at his productivity summit to bring bold policy ideas with them to Canberra this month, and it’s fair to say that Scott Farquhar has taken him at his word. The Atlassian co-founder and Tech Council chair did a remarkable thing this week, delivering a televised speech to the National Press Club almost entirely about artificial intelligence and the infrastructure that supports it. With some of the nation’s most senior political journalists in the country engaged and interested and seeking better understanding. That’s a mainstream televised conversation about industry development policy – but not focused on car manufacturing, or steel or minerals processing, but rather on software and data.
    4 months ago
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    The tortured path of the STEM Diversity review

    Six months after former Industry minister Ed Husic publicly accepted all 11 recommendations of the long-running Pathway to STEM Diversity Review, the federal government appears to have walked back from those commitments. In March, after spending a year considering the review’s findings, Mr Husic told the SouthStart conference in Adelaide that government had accepted all the report’s recommendations.But an Industry spokesperson now says that the recommendations of the STEM Diversity Review are still under formal consideration.
    4 months ago
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    Catherine Livingstone puts the case for system-level change

    Catherine Livingstone has one of the best business brains in the country, and ahead of the economic roundtable in Canberra next week she has called for a bold, system-level approach to the economic policy discussion. Ms Livingstone says a piecemeal approach of isolated policy incrementalism will not be enough for much-needed changes to the nation’s operating model. The sectors that Australia has relied on for decades for growth are in many case in decline, and there are not enough new industries coming through to generate the scale of growth that the country needs.
    4 months ago
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    News Wrap: Freelancing policy on the Diversity in STEM review

    When former Cabinet minister Ed Husic announced in March that the government had accepted all the recommendations of its Pathway to STEM Diversity Review, it came as a surprise to many – including his colleagues. The announcement was made before the policy had been agreed. Mr Husic, who had been Industry and Science minister prior to the May election, accepted the 11 recommendations as government policy in a speech at the SouthStart conference in Adelaide. Following the speech there was nothing. There was no formal written government response to the review. No media release. No response from the minister’s office to inquiries about the status of the ‘accepted recommendations’.
    4 months ago
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    Back to the future as SERD flags ‘mission’ innovation

    The first issues paper from the Strategic Examination of R&D review has been published, bringing with it a Back to the Future vibe with its heavy emphasis on ‘mission’-led innovation. It’s an interesting document that seeks to frame national coordination and governance structures that would enable a level of long-termism currently missing from the system. The idea that our R&D and innovation systems should be coordinated in working toward a set of national missions is a familiar one and was one of the central themes in Bill Ferris’s national review of the innovation system in 2017.
    3 months ago
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    Meet our 2025 finalists: InnovationAus Awards for Excellence

    It is a huge honour to announce the 32 finalists across eight categories for the 2025 InnovationAus Awards for Excellence, a literal showcase of Australia’s most exciting tech and innovation companies. The InnovationAus Awards for Excellence are now in its fifth year as the nation’s most prestigious industry recognition program, coinciding with InnovationAus.com’s 10th year of publishing. Our finalists this year cover the gamut of industries – from quantum to space to agriculture and defence, and represent the most outstanding entrepreneurs and innovators in Australia.In the coming weeks, each of these finalists will be profiled in InnovationAus.com in the lead-up to the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence black-tie gala at the Sydney Town Hall on November 27.
    3 months ago
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    The urgency of the SERD review must be a positive sign

    The Robyn Denholm-led Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) review looks like it will be wrapped-up two months early, which can only be taken as a positive sign of the urgency by which the task has been undertaken. The review was due to be completed by the end of the year, but that timetable has been brought forward by Ms Denholm to the end of October. In papers released this week, the SERD panel said it would use the two months after completing the report to engage with ministers and portfolios to press its findings. More good news. The review secretariat released two issues papers – one on ‘Scaling the system: a proactive approach to scaling the R&D system’ and the other on ‘R&DTI incentives: Incentivising breakthrough innovation and ambitious R&D’. Public feedback is open until the end of September.
    3 months ago
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    ‘A pathway to liquidity’ is good news on quantum bets

    A couple of big equity investment bets by Australian governments into US quantum firms PsiQuantum and Infleqtion have taken a step forward with a pathway to liquidity revealing itself. The first of these, PsiQuantum, announced this week a US$1 billion (A$1.5 billion) Series E capital raise, valuing the company at US$7 billion. PsiQuantum was famously backed by the Australian and Queensland governments, which both contributing equally to a financial package worth A$940 million. Of this amount, US$250 million was in the form of an equity investment.
    3 months ago
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    NewsWrap: National Tech Summit hits its stride

    It has been a big week for the industry in Sydney with Technology Council’s National Tech Summit rolling through town. It is the third year for the Summit, which has previously been held in Melbourne (last year) and Brisbane in 2023. It will be interesting to see whether the Tech Council is able to see this travelling annual show continue its progression around Australian capitals, or if will make its home on a rotation of eastern seaboard capitals .Regardless, it’s a great event, heavy with the globalist view of the world that comes naturally to software giants but nonetheless provided a platform for serious and open policy discussion.
    3 months ago