Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) is Australia’s first quantum computing company. It is also one of the world’s leading contenders to bring a large-scale quantum computer into commercial production. SQC...
The Innovation Papers
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Information and communication technology (ICT), encompassing digital services, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, software, and so on, is ubiquitous throughout the Australian economy and society at large. As a result, Australia’s...
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In a post-COVID world, Australia is in an excellent position to innovate and commercialise its domestic capability and uplift local industry. However, urgent action and collaboration are required across...
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The war in Ukraine has firmly cemented what Defence has known for the last decade: the pace of innovation and adoption for new defence technologies has gone from 10-year...
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Sovereignty can mean different things to different people, but to those of us in the space and defence domain, sovereignty is about resilience. Resilience is our ability to bounce...
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Prevention is better than cure: it’s a familiar idiom that expresses a simple truth yet its logic is often ignored. Sometimes the effort required now to address future natural...
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It is a longstanding observation that complex businesses that are located close to their competitors are more productive than their more sparsely located counterparts. This theory was shaped by...
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Australia has a problem. An innovation problem. But not the problem most people imagine. It isn’t that we lack highly-educated individuals who are good at research – we have...
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The story of success of early-stage technological invention is not pretty. Studies from the US, Europe, Israel and Australia all say technological inventions are mostly unsuccessful. One local study...
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We complicate innovation. Essentially it just takes four resources to produce: talent, capital, technology, and demand. We tend to treat these resources as separate inputs rather than as an...
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Atlassian, Canva and SafetyCulture are examples of successful companies that began their life as digital startups in Australia. These companies have set campuses, venture capital firms, co-working spaces and...
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The venture funding of emerging industry clusters are currently disconnected from Australian industry development policy. To fully fund a specialist emerging industry, one needs a highly liquid deep tech...
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Australia and its allies are now faced with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a greenfield quantum technology industry, predicted by analysts to be worth over $1 trillion over the...
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Manufacturing is the answer. I know this because back in May of this year I stood in front of Australia’s first gigafactory in the making. In Tomago, New South...