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Capital seekers… get to the point!
Why is it that so many people involved in the communications, information and biotechnology industries seem incapable of simply articulating what it is that their wonderful technologies do. What is the point of boring investors to tears when all they really care about are the market benefits? Never has this been more important than today, [...]
Putting the IP in your IPO
In the rollercoaster ride of potentially lucrative, but often disappointing, technology IPOs and private equity investments, a well-managed intellectual property portfolio could be your ticket to success, writes Rob McInnes. For any innovative company looking to take advantage of an IPO window in the next few years, or indeed for any high-technology enterprise looking to [...]
Book reviews
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language Don Watson Random House, 2003 “While English spreads across the globe, the language itself is shrinking. Vast numbers of new words enter it every year, but our children’s and leaders’ vocabularies are getting smaller! You write for your audience and your audience knows fewer words than it used [...]
Dr Robin Batterham
Batterham than me! Dr Robin Batterham has one of the toughest jobs in Australia. He is Australia’s Chief Scientist. But what exactly does that mean? According to the job description, Dr Batterham’s mandate involves providing advice to the PM and his Ministers, instigating and overseeing reviews and reports on science, technology and innovation matters and [...]
Innovation Factories
IDEO: Masters of Innovation Jeremy Myerson Lawrence King Publishing The year was 1982. US magazine, Design, had asked one of its writers, Jeremy Myerson, to visit a fast-growing pocket of American industry known as Silicon Valley. Apparently, something was stirring in the State of California. Cracking open a beer in the converted garage of Bill [...]
Winning Yankees: inside koala creek
The United States is a mecca for wine importers – which is hardly surprising given that it is the world’s third largest consumer of wine products after France and Italy. However, it is also the world’s fourth largest wine producer, bottling 23,300 hectolitres each year, which is 2,100 hectoliters more than it consumes. In such [...]
Tony Surtees: mind games
Best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin, describes him as “one of the most brilliant marketers on the scene today.” Most Australians know him as the man who built Yahoo!’s Commerce Group. Today, Surtees faces a new challenge: exposing Australians to the Silicon Valley mindset. And sometimes, the truth ain’t too pretty. Australia probably knows you [...]
Tech it (or leave it)
Deck the halls… with innovation wizardry. This holiday season, anthill presents stocking stuffers and high-tech toys to buy or simply dream about. PEUGEOT 4002 LOOKS TO THE FUTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN The award winning Peugeot 4002 design by 32-year old German graphic designer Stefan Schulze made a return to its creator’s country of origin at [...]
Super bowl vs. begging bowl
Why do so many of our universities appear reluctant to exploit their alignments with business and alumni when approaching the matter of fundraising? Why is it that corporate sponsorship is given such a bad rap by academic circles and members of the Australian education system? It is simply not adequate to say that corporate involvement [...]
Unlocking CRCs for SMEs
It is essential for publicly funded research organisations to work well together. It is even more important that these organisations work in a manner consistent with the objectives of private enterprise. Cooperative research centers (CRCs) are failing on this front, in so far as small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) are concerned. While SMEs are in the best [...]
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