Businesses need to use simple technology more effectively, as opposed to robots like Softbank’s “Pepper”.
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When it comes to using technology, businesses don’t always get it right.
Isaac Newton’s portrait. What can students learn from his life?
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Research shows that students feel motivated when they learn more about the struggles and failures of the world’s greatest scientists.
Olympic rowers train in waters near Rio. The lack of sufficient treatment has raised health concerns for athletes.
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Expecting the rest of the world to adopt expensive, centralized sewage treatments systems common in the U.S. is not realistic.
What are the implications of peer review on competition in science?
PROChristian Guthier
Peer review is a crucial part of the academic publication system. It is also a critical part of the hiring and evaluation process. What’s the problem with peer review?
Those living through the first Renaissance recognised that their age offered blinding possibilities, but that any gains would have to be achieved amid relentless shocks. The same is true today.
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The first Renaissance struggled with the same doubts and uncertainties and blinding possibilities that we face today. Any gains we make will have to be achieved amid relentless shocks.
When brains are able to go where their interests lie, everyone benefits.
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Professors in dynamic tech fields won’t stay in academia for three or four decades. The best scientists in the world should have the freedom to pursue their careers as they choose.
Australia has had enough reports on innovation. It’s time for NSW to “do innovation”.
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Here are five ways to strengthen innovation in NSW, so that all the talk of “being innovative” translates to actually “doing innovation” into the future.
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.
South Africa’s economy isn’t growing. Solutions are within its grasp.
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The South African Reserve Bank has forecast zero percent growth for 2016. Some urgent steps are needed to get the country out of this hole.
Incoming Innovation Minister Greg Hunt must help Malcolm Turnbull resurrect the innovation agenda.
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The innovation agenda may have failed to resonate with Australians, but it shouldn’t be abandoned.
He’s certainly thinking big….
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The technological goals are lofty. But fitting the new tech into the social and political landscape might pose the bigger challenge.
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.
An implant made by Cochlear who are innovating in their marketing and customer service.
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To be innovative, companies need to employ people with a wide range of technical and non-technical skills, a new study has found.
Blowing in the wind.
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A five point plan to give Britain an approach which tackles climate change while fostering growth.
Resistance to new technologies tends to be driven by perceptions rather than actual evidence.
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Human resistance to innovation can be an obstacle to solving major global challenges.
Some countries in Africa are well placed to follow the path of development pioneered by a number of Asian countries.
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It’s important to interrogate the key factors that pushed countries from Third World to First World status in the 20th century. Asia’s experiences hold many lessons for Africa.
Scientists can find it tough to turn a great idea or innovation into a successful business.
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Science and business don’t often go together, but that’s changing as more scientists realise that their best ideas can be commercialised.
Both domestic and global economic challenges face the new Turnbull government.
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The government should consider five options to increase economic growth.
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.
Some farmers are suspicious of technological innovation. But technology can really help them.
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It’s been proved that prizes can boost cultural innovation. The same is certainly true for innovation in agriculture – which Africa desperately needs.