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TRENDSPOTTING http://trendwatching.com Brainchild of trend spotter Reinier Evers, Trendwatching.com mobilizes savvy people everywhere to scan their part of the globe for business ideas, consumer insights and...

Working from home is the latest boom trend, made possible by rapid advancements in communications technology and the realisation by many employers (and the...

We may no longer refer to the economies of Asia as ‘tigers’, but Singapore (literally ‘Lion City’) is roaring like never before. For Australian...

Mervyn Jacobson is the richest man in Eden. He is the Executive Chairman of Melbourne-based biotech company, Genetic Technologies (GTG), which controls patents on 95 percent of your DNA. Once considered ‘junk’, because it lacks genetic coding, this vast area of the genome is now known to contain markers indicating our susceptibility to some of life’s most devastating diseases. GTG is cashing in on everyone else’s myopia and many in the calculating world of science are fast discovering their moral outrage.

Viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, phishing, snarfing. The internet contains some pretty dark alleys and many of them intersect the most popular highways. You...

We only go for the really BIG ones here and they don’t come much bigger than the question of whether we are sharing the...

Entrepreneurs and scientists use the concepts of ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ interchangeably. This is not surprising, as both play an integral role in the new...

Innovation Patents were introduced in Australia in May 2001 in response to demand, largely from SMEs, for a type of intellectual property that would...

So what is all this fuss about feeds? RSS, affectionately known as “really simple syndication”, is everywhere. Microsoft are building it into Longhorn, RSS...

What makes a venture capitalist tick? Su-Ming Wong knows. He should. Wong lives and breaths risk and reward. From his early days with the pioneering private equity...

Getting your way once is easy. It's repeating it that's hard. So how do you rate on the enchant-o-metre? We asked three pros if...

In these times of terror, you can never be too protected against the unexpected. But if your nerves are a little frayed these days, imagine...

What are disruptive innovations? They’ve got to be bad, right? Right!? Well, not if they’re yours. When Clayton M. Christensen released his seminal book “The Innovators’ Dilemma”...

Remuneration and the inventor Whenever a party intends to commercially exploit technology invented by another party, the question arises as to the proper method of...

The path from start-up to success story can be a challenging journey. These two Victorian innovators are taking the path less travelled, turning good...

Bill Delves is a partner with Ernst & Young and head of the firms Emerging Growth Markets Group. He is also national leader of...

What's better than creating a successful business? Doing it with style! Most companies are content to provide a useful product or service. But for a...

The future of the information age is up for grabs and the darlings of the new, new economy are jostling for position. Since Google’s...

Ohmynews.com Oh Yeon Ho, president and founder of South Korean website OhmyNews.com, believes there is a journalist in every one of us. OhmyNews covers stories from...

Leadership revelations – an Australian perspective By Avril Henry CCH Australia Limited, 2005 It is an eclectic mix that business strategist and HR consultant Avril Henry...