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.

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.

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.

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.

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.