Misaki Wayengera working on his rapid diagnostic test.
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Unless African governments put their money where their mouths are, innovative advances from young scientists on the continent will be stifled.
Consumer baiting?
Tom Simpson
Why do companies devote so much energy to ingenuity that causes harm?
Australians may not understand how to be innovative, but they definitely want to be.
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There are some simple steps government, company leaders and venture capitalists can make to help pivot Australia’s economy.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull understands innovation, but the government still lacks a coherent innovation plan.
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A coherent innovation policy requires a focus on fostering networks, and learning from economies similar to ours.
An innovation culture eats policy and education for breakfast.
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Australians shouldn’t assume we can’t have the strongest and fastest-moving digital economy in the world.
New Assistant Minister for Innovation, Wyatt Roy, has his sights set on Silicon Valley.
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The new Assistant Minister for Innovation, Wyatt Roy, wants to promote tech start-ups in Australia. But is that such a prudent policy?
A fresh start is needed for science and innovation from new PM Malcolm Turnbull and Industry, Innovation and Science Minister Christopher Pyne.
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The challenge for a 21st century Australian government is to capitalise on research and create new jobs, industries and opportunities for the coming century.
New horizons. The immense refugee camp at Zaatari in Jordan.
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Away from the chaos of Europe’s borders, refugees are camped out in vast settlements close to their home countries and where restrictions on entrepreneurship are wasting talent and energy.
Broadband is one of the technologies that will feature heavily in Australia’s future.
A new report from the Australian Council of Learned Academies paints a picture of Australia’s technological future.
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The new iPad Pro reminds us that firms like Apple are favouring incremental change rather than tackling technology’s big challenges.
Africa needs women scientists and researchers like the Ivory Coast’s Dr Celine Nobah, pictured here at work. What can be done to develop female researchers?
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Policies at universities and in research institutions can be changed in small and significant ways to boost the space for gender equity within the sciences.
The new Prime Minister has an opportunity to reverse the cuts to science funding and transform Australia into an innovative nation.
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A Turnbull government has an opportunity to redirect Australia towards being a science and innovation nation.
What is the best way forward for Australia’s national innovation system?
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Australia has many celebrated examples of world innovation, but ensuring this continues in a systematic way, has proven elusive.
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The restructure Google should look at the world’s big challenges rather than create solutions to problems that don’t exist yet.
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Despite futuristic predictions, planes, cars and trains haven’t changed much for decades.
Google: no longer just a search engine.
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Google has become a technology giant, but it’s trying to keep its small-company ethos alive.
Masters of tiki-taka.
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Highly inventive and offering myriad routes to goal, tiki taka is the kind of approach to innovation and wealth creation the UK must take.
There’s a huge role for universities to play beyond the ivory tower.
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Evidence-based solutions to our systemic dilemmas won’t be conjured out of thin air. Universities, governments and businesses all have to work together.
Started with high democratic ideals, how does the U.S. Patent Office work for the 21st century?
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Founded in 1790, the Patent Office aimed to put innovation and entrepreneurship within reach of every citizen. Now, 10 million patents later, critics say an out-of-touch system is doing the opposite.
Watch out for trolls squatting on patents.
Gil
Nobody loves patent trolls. But new legislation in Congress aimed at the trolls isn’t necessary, since the effects of recent patent reforms are only starting to be felt.