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UNDERLINING the link between IT and the search for new energy sources to reduce carbon emissions, Google has invested more than US$10 million in a breakthrough energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems.
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THE Federal Government has opened a national Innovation Regions Centre to be run from Geelong in Victoria as part of a package of initiatives to help small and medium sized businesses in regional areas.
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CHINA is set to become an innovation powerhouse in developing new online and digital technologies over the next ten years, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has told a conference in Hong Kong.
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INNOVATION, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr has welcomed the release of a review of the nation’s Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program as key part of his broader review of the National Innovation System.
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WHEN car giant Mitsubishi announced the closure of its Adelaide-based manufacturing facility at Tonsley Park for the loss of 900 jobs, the news hit South Australia like the end of the world.
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INDUSTRY and Innovation Minister Kim Carr has put the potential impact of nanotechnology under the microscope, putting regulatory systems in place to ensure new products are safe.
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INDUSTRY and Innovation Minister Kim Carr says the nation can spend its way out of climate change challenges, saying that technological solutions can be found for problems created by technology.
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AUSTRALIA’s performance as a producer of protected intellectually property applications has grown steadily since 1999, according to Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr. |
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THE Federal Government has announced new funding for a Cooperative Research Centre targeting the digital services sector totalling more than $30 million up to 2014. |
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A TEAM of four Australian students has won a major international software competition – from a pool of 200,000 students from 100 countries – for a designing an innovative water-saving software solution. |
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RESEARCH collaboration between Australia and Germany has been given a boost with a second round of funding under the Go8’s researcher exchange scheme and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). |
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RESOURES industry giant Rio Tinto is to invest US$371 million (A$393 million to automate its iron ore railway in the Pilbara region of Western Australia – removing the need for a driver.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has hailed a traffic management system developed at the peak industry research agency NICTA as a prime example of technology that will continue to drive the Australian economy. |
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KEVIN Rudd has chaired the first meeting of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering, and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) in the most positive sign yet that the new Government has lifted the priority of the sector. |
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THE Government agency responsible for patents, trade marks and designs, IP Australia, has launched an online database that makes the breadth of Australian inventions more accessible. |
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Digital game developers in Australia generated $136.9 million in income during 2006-07, according to a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). |
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Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr has told business leaders the Rudd Government is looking at reform of the research and development tax concession scheme. |
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A materials science project at the University of New South Wales and an anti-terror computer security project at the Queensland University of Technology are two projects to benefit from Innovation department grants to improve links with researchers in India. |
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CHIP-MAKER Advanced Micro Devices has lost its most senior technology executive after CTO Phil Hester announced he would step down from the struggling microprocessor manufacturers. |
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INNOVATION, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr has named four prominent international experts to act as advisors to the review of the Australian National Innovation System. |
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GLOBAL internet firm Yahoo has opened a new research laboratory in Israel specialising in search technologies, the company said. |
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AEROSPACE giant Boeing has officially opened its Australian Phantom Works research and development operation, giving a much needed shot in the arm for the local innovation community. |
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INTEL and Microsoft have partnered with two top research universities in the US to accelerate the improvements in mainstream parallel computing performance. |
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EVENT organisers at the giant CeBIT business technology fair in Hannover has declared the exhibition’s new six-day format a success, with attendance up three per cent to 495,000 visitors. |
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DESPITE being an ICT intellectual property powerhouse, Germany’s largest industry association has warned the nation will slip competitively without a renewed commitment to research and development. |
