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A quantum computer manufacturing industry for Australia

Mish — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 03:53:26 +0000

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 has assembled a globally recognised team of quantum scientists and engineers, coupled with business practitioners, to develop and commercialise its unique atomic quantum processors out of...

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A Minister for ICT Capability would secure sovereign needs

Mish — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 03:47:35 +0000

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 accelerating digital transformation is multiplying the number and complexity of ICT services, as well as increasing the threat surface and associated vulnerabilities. Inside the federal government,...

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Information supply chains and sovereign capability

Mish — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:28:13 +0000

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 government and industry in terms of investment, policy, legislation, and tax reform. Bolstering our local IT sector is critical not only for economic growth but also...

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Collaboration: Why Defence and startups must work together

Mish — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:23:06 +0000

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 cycles to sub-year cycles. Defence needs to be faster, more agile and more efficient. Sub-year cycles. To rise to this challenge, Australian tech startups and the...

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Why it’s prime time for the Australian space industry

Mish — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:09:12 +0000

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 back from adverse situations or conditions. It’s easy to see how multiple dams could improve the resilience of our water supplies for example, and how an...

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Generational change: From response to resilience

Mish — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:03:57 +0000

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 threats seems too great, even when the cost of inaction could be greater. If the past few years have taught us anything, however, it is that...

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Clusters are a hotbed for high-growth companies

Mish — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:07:21 +0000

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 19th Century British economic historian, Alfred Marshall, and even noted by some of his predecessors. Early descriptive studies, however, were not sure whether clusters arose because:...

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Do we need a national startup concierge service?

Mish — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:04:38 +0000

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 plenty of those. It isn’t a dearth of great ideas – we punch above our weight when it comes to great ideas. It isn’t that we...

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Here is an innovation taxonomy for success

Mish — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:06:09 +0000

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 puts it like this, success appears to be the outlier and failure the norm. Worse it’s very hard to pinpoint specific factors of failure. A local...

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Creating a national network for commercial innovation

Mish — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:03:38 +0000

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 ecosystem. There’s also a constant discussion about how we systemise commercialisation (innovation’s child). Commercialisation is dynamic. Innovation and commercialisation are team sports and don’t happen if...

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