Tag: Senator Kim Carr
The Australian Marketing Institute awards Dream Shield the Social Responsibility Award
Australian IP’s Dream Shield has just been award the Social Responsibility Award from the Australian Marketing Institute for its social contribution and impact in the indigenous community.
Revolutionary GiFi technology to receive $1.4M from Commercialisation Australia
Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, has announced that NICTA will receive $1.42 million to fund GiFi, a high-speed gigabit wireless transmission technology. These funds will be granted to Nitero, a company created by NICTA researchers, which will further develop GiFi and put in the market.
Tasmanian ICT Centre to receive $50 million for technology development
Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, has announced, together with Premier Lara Giddings, CSIRO’s CEO Dr Megan Clark and Member for Denison Andrew Wilkie, that the Tasmanian ICT Centre will receive a $50 million package over the next five years to help Tasmanian’s development of information and communications technologies.
Can academia and government team up to spark innovation in public policy? Stay tuned.
Is it possible to drive government innovation by gathering a bunch of civil servants and academicians to talk about being innovative? The Gillard Government hopes so. Earlier this month, it announced the creation of the Australian National Institute for Public Policy.
Six added to council that advises Australian government on R&D investment
Six people with academic specialties ranging from chemistry to the creative arts have been added to the Australian Research Council, which advises the Gillard government on investment in research and development.
Commercialisation Australia CEO announced
After months of speculation, Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr today announced that the new CEO of Commercialisation Australian will be entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Doron Ben-Meir.
“No entrepreneurs on new Commercialisation Australia board.” What about marketers?
A privately initiated discussion has been gaining some momentum on the Anthill LinkedIn Group over the past week.
The discussion was triggered by an announcement from the Office of Senator Kim Carr, Australia's Minister for Innovation, pertaining to the selection of Commercialisation Australian board members.
"No entrepreneurs on new Commercialisation Australia board." What about marketers?
A privately initiated discussion has been gaining some momentum on the Anthill LinkedIn Group over the past week.
The discussion was triggered by an announcement from the Office of Senator Kim Carr, Australia's Minister for Innovation, pertaining to the selection of Commercialisation Australian board members.
Six emerging technologies receive more than $442k of COMET grants
With only a couple more weeks before the COMET program closes (to be replaced with the Commercialisation Australia program), it has been announced that six emerging technologies have received grants totaling $442,400, or $70,400 each.
Business expenditure on R&D has jumped by 15 per cent
Business expenditure on research and development (BERD) has jumped by 15 per cent, reaching $14,380 million in 2007-08, according to statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
Business expenditure on R&D has jumped by 15 per cent
Business expenditure on research and development (BERD) has jumped by 15 per cent, reaching $14,380 million in 2007-08, according to statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
