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Innovation precincts are great, but what Australia really needs is a creative space that brings thinkers and doers together to help spark start-ups.
We have never had a sparkling startup tech sector in Australia, but that doesn’t mean we should try and emulate Silicon Valley.
A “Yelp for people” app that offers crowdsourced opinions on people is a terrible idea, and probably illegal.
The new Assistant Minister for Innovation, Wyatt Roy, wants to promote tech start-ups in Australia. But is that such a prudent policy?
The new iPad Pro reminds us that firms like Apple are favouring incremental change rather than tackling technology’s big challenges.
There’s a new counter-culture movement that is seeking to bypass the bureaucracy of science and hack biology for the benefit of the masses.
Focusing on the extravagances of a select few overlooks a broader affinity between the madness of Burning Man and the West Coast’s technocracy.
The sharing economy could bring about the end of capitalism: that’s the provocative claim made by economic journalist Paul Mason. But research indicates that it actually has many possible futures.
Drawing on models that have proved hugely successful in major cities around the world, Wits University is creating a large and ambitious Digital Innovation Zone.
How can we prepare children for a tech world while fighting the distractions it inevitably brings?
The EU is accusing Google of abusing its dominance in search, yet a similar antitrust case in the US led to a settlement. What counts for the divergent outcomes?
Silicon Valley has become a synonym for innovation and, with its ecosystem of super-moneyed venture capitalists, it is world renowned as a hub for new products and software. Europe meanwhile has struggled…
According to TechRepublic, Google produced two of the five worst tech products of 2009 – Android 1.0 and Google Wave. The fact that Google remains dominant suggests that, while not infallible, it’s rich…
Silicon Valley is the classic example of a business cluster. Less well known but also very successful are the machinery and agriculture clusters in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. Naturally the UK also…
It’s been a while since Fred Astaire played a CSIRO scientist in the 1959 movie of Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach. Still one premise of the film holds true: you can’t always predict where your research…
There were some raised eyebrows when the smiling faces of Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes appeared at the top of Business Review Weekly’s annual young rich list. The business…
Women fill fewer than 10% of top executive roles in California’s 400 largest companies. Researchers in the US found almost…
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Research Fellow, Digital Cultures & Societies, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, James Cook University
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Professor of Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London
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