Australian startups are trying to develop better algorithms to offer financial advice.
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Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions
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Financial advice was once the realm of bankers and brokers now startups are developing digital platforms to take advantage of how trusting we are of investment advice from computers.
New jobs, such as big data doctor, might be just around the corner.
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Automation is likely to destroy many jobs, but create new ones in their stead. We must adapt to what those new jobs will be.
The need for innovation, but what does it mean?
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The message of an exciting future through innovation and high-tech start-ups has failed to engage the Australian community.
The Turnbull government needs to learn a thing or two from hacker culture.
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Innovation is not just about taking risks, but minimising and managing them.
The UK’s strong financial markets have always been attractive to startups but uncertainty might affect venture capital.
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Brexit’s presents some problems for startups in labour, trade and regulation but its not all bad.
Both Labor and the Coalition should be looking to upscale small and medium enterprises to compete globally, if they are serious about innovation.
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Policies for encouraging research, development and startups are good but both major parties need to move beyond this to help Australia innovate.
It takes businesses of all size to drive research and development.
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Using tax incentives to motivate innovation is more nuanced than governments sometimes assume.
The proposed changes to the Corporations Act might protect investors in crowd funding but it limits the types of businesses that can use these platforms.
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The Italian government tried to limit the type of companies that could use crowd-sourced funding with poor results, Australia can learn from this.
Restricting the tax offsets for investing in start-ups to just those with plenty of money will hurt entrepreneurs.
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The government should be encouraging informal investors to put their money into start-ups, not barring them from tax offsets that encourage them to do so.
Australian tech startup Atlassian launches on the Nasdaq market.
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Want to work in a startup? You need to weigh up the risks with the benefits.
CurveStar, a curveball pitched to investors at CES - but few UK firms have the opportunity.
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Where’s an angel investor when you need one? A British team at CES reflects on startup culture, US-style.
Crowded market.
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The democratisation of finance isn’t going quite to plan.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaking during a visit to the FinTech startup Stone and Chalk in Sydney.
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Malcolm Turnbull spruiks his lines like one of those optimistic entrepreneurs that he urges Australians to become.
Will the ‘ideas boom’ take hold?
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The government’s innovation agenda is heavy on incentives for startups and entrepreneurs.
Innovation Minister Christopher Pyne and Innovation Australia chair Bill Ferris have their work cut out for them.
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Transforming Australia into an innovation powerhouse will require overcoming these 10 key challenges.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will announce incentives in the form of tax offsets for investments in startups.
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The government will pledge more than $1 billion in new spending over four years on measures to foster an innovative, risk-taking culture in Australia.
John Howland and Dr Mark Bilandzic, winners of the Digital Media mashup award in the Libraryhack 2011 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland.
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Innovation precincts are great, but what Australia really needs is a creative space that brings thinkers and doers together to help spark start-ups.
Startups benefit from collaboration.
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The collaboration required to foster more startups would benefit from a national system of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurs such as Angola’s Isabel dos Santos have grown a portfolio of companies to very large scale rather than one big behemoth.
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African governments should adopt a top-down rather than bottom-up approach to encouraging the creation of businesses.
Coalition backbencher David Coleman wants investors in startups to be exempt from paying capital gains tax.
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Tax systems are notoriously bad for doing things other than raising revenue.