Business Briefing: we’re overusing and underestimating ‘disruption’
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Disruption might be a buzz word at the moment but it shouldn't be ignored. It may be impossible to predict but businesses can have stakes in creating it.
Globalisation facilitates technology entrepreneurship.
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Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions
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Financial advice was once the realm of bankers and brokers now startups are developing digital platforms to take advantage of how trusting we are of investment advice from computers.
New jobs, such as big data doctor, might be just around the corner.
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Brexit’s presents some problems for startups in labour, trade and regulation but its not all bad.
Both Labor and the Coalition should be looking to upscale small and medium enterprises to compete globally, if they are serious about innovation.
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Using tax incentives to motivate innovation is more nuanced than governments sometimes assume.
The proposed changes to the Corporations Act might protect investors in crowd funding but it limits the types of businesses that can use these platforms.
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The government should be encouraging informal investors to put their money into start-ups, not barring them from tax offsets that encourage them to do so.
Australian tech startup Atlassian launches on the Nasdaq market.
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The government will pledge more than $1 billion in new spending over four years on measures to foster an innovative, risk-taking culture in Australia.
John Howland and Dr Mark Bilandzic, winners of the Digital Media mashup award in the Libraryhack 2011 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland.
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