As shown in @AuManuracturing News’s Towards 3% R&D editorial series, Australia’s innovation effort is tanking, with a lack of national policy co-ordination a key issue. Here Dr John H Howard, puts the case for a National Innovation Council. In an era where innovation drives economic growth and global competitiveness, Australia’s fragmented approach to industrial strategy…
As we near our latest webinar Towards 3% R&D – Where to from here? (more information and sign up here) Dr John Howard asks whether Australia’s capital markets are failing to support innovative companies. Dr Howard will speak at the webinar which follows our editorial series and e-book Towards 3% – turbocharging Australia’s innovation effort.…
Additive manufacturer Aurora Labs and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) developer Innovaero have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to leverage both companies capabilities in the defence UAS space. The MOU brings Aurora Labs 3D printed metal components and recently tested 3D printed micro gas turbines to Innovaero’s current UAS platforms. Earlier this month Aurora Labs…
Cold spray additive manufacturing business Titomic has announced the sale of a custom-built high-pressure system to the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center (also known as OMIC R&D) for $US 790,000 (approximately $1.2 million.) According to a statement to the ASX from Titomic on Monday, the Portland, Oregon, commercial research and development service provider will gain ability…
Carbon fibre nanotube concrete additive manufacturer Eden Innovations is restructuring its US business and selling properties to set itself up for renewed growth. The company, dual listed on the ASX in Australia and the NASDAQ in the United States, is little known in Australia but well known in the US where its concrete additive products…
CSIRO is accepting applications for a new round of its free, ten-week Innovate to Grow program for SMEs, this time focussing on digital technologies and artificial intelligence. According to a statement from the national science agency on Monday, the program will connect businesses working on solutions in digital technologies and AI with knowledge, resources, and…
Sponsored Australia has a rich history of industry and manufacturing thanks to an abundance of natural resources, economic prosperity, high levels of education and geographic isolation which necessitated local production of goods. But the recent decades have shone the spotlight on the challenges to the industry from reliance on global supply chains. Net zero targets…
Ten SME innovators that have been through CSIRO’s On Accelerate mentoring programme have been celebrates at a showcase in Melbourne. ON Accelerate breaks down the challenges that often prevent deep tech ideas and research from getting to market. The showcase highlighted 10 deep tech teams in CSIRO’s Accelerate 8 cohort for progress in areas including…
The Australian Army is to purchase a loitering drone munition or bomb by the end of the year with media reports suggesting that it will buy Perth-based Innovaero’s One-Way Loitering (OWL) munition being developed in association with Boeing subsidiary Insitu Pacific (IPL). ABC reports that an electrically powered drone able to travel almost 200 kilometres…
By Kylie Walker, Australian National University This year’s federal budget is making up for decades of lost time – both in our clean energy transition and in betting on new technological breakthroughs. The Future Made in Australia Act holds tantalising potential for building Australian science, research and development. The aim is to turn Australia into…