Ford’s closure of its Geelong manufacturing plant last month is part of a broader story about Australia’s
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CSIRO’s place within Australian manufacturing
A strong manufacturing sector remains central to any first world economy as a result of its contribution to overall productivity, its input to R&D and innovation, its contribution to exports and its multiplier effects on growth.
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Made in China: three ways Chinese business has evolved from imitation to innovation
Most of us use products made in China every day and are aware of its growing economic power as a factory to the world. But China intends to become a developed nation by mid-century and integral to this ambition is its intense focus on innovation.
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Dulux, other large manufacturers would lose out under R&D intensity threshold
Proposed changes to R&D tax incentives, requiring a certain “intensity threshold” to be met by companies, would damage Australian manufacturers, Dulux Group has said.
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Rumours new Apple MacBook will use “E-Ink” tech from Sydney start-up
There are rumours that Apple is working with Sydney company Sonder Design to develop a special “E-Ink” keyboard for release with the 2018 MacBook.
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Making Sense of the Data
Today’s innovative manufacturers are matching the individuality of their workshop forefathers to satisfy a demand for an ever more personalised product. This trend towards personalisation has already
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Executive’s short-term outlooks the real killer of Australian innovation
Malcolm Turnbull’s Innovation Agenda focused attention on startups and technology-driven innovation, but this is not enough to overcome the broader problems inhibiting innovation in Australia. Businesses may be looking to the government to ease red tape as a means to increase innovation but what’s really blocking innovation is the short-term view of senior executives, our research finds.
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3D metal printing: bringing the dream to reality
It is already old news that 3D printing is going to be the next “game changer” in manufacturing; it is only a matter of when. In the last few years, there has been a surge in demand for 3D printed parts, typically plastic and metal ones – not surprising since the CAD/CAM scene has been vastly improving in recent years.
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We need to pick up the pace on innovation, says secretary of prime minister’s department
Australia needs to speed up the spread of ideas across the economy in its quest for higher living standards, the secretary of the prime minister’s department, Martin Parkinson, has said.
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Australia’s first graphene factory wins engineering innovation award
Last night Austeng and Imagine Intelligent Materials jointly won an award for the establishment of Australia’s first commercial graphene plant.
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Manufacturing SMEs need a culture open to co-creation with customers
New research has suggested that manufacturing SMEs should promote a culture which supports “customer-centric manufacturing”.
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Ferris calls for increased collaboration and commercialisation of Australian research
Bill Ferris AC, Chair of Innovation and Science Australia, has called for greater collaboration between Australian businesses and our publicly funded research institutions in a speech delivered today at the Westmead Research Hub.
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R&D tax incentives need to be simple and underpin investor confidence
Few examples of Australian tax policy are subject to as frequent change as the Research & Development tax subsidy, again under review by the federal government. Substantive changes to the rules have occurred every five of the past 20 years. By contrast, the US has had essentially the same R&D tax rules since 1990.
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Are you claiming your R&D?
Don’t miss out: it’s now easier to claim Research and Development (R&D) activities than ever before, as Alan Johnson reports.
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Perth manufacturer lodges metal powder production patent
Perth-based 3D printing company Aurora Labs has announced that it has lodged another patent application, this time for a method of producing metal powders.
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What is the Medical Technology Association and how does it wield its power?
If your health practitioner has used a syringe, tongue depressor (to look at your throat), pacemaker, stethoscope, X-ray or MRI scan, blood test, dental filling or joint implant to treat you, you’ve encountered a product from the medical technology industry.
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Wood innovation looks beyond sawmilling to nail manufacturing process
PRINCIPLES from the automotive, mining and paper industries have helped develop a machine to convert cheap pulpwood into a premium product with the same properties as tropical hardwood.
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Internet of Things to sharpen importance of speed, services
First released in October last year, the Synergy platform was officially launched by Renesas in Australia recently. Brent Balinski spoke to the company and one of its local independent design house partners about developing products for the Internet of Things.
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Australia has an internationalisation, not an innovation and R&D problem
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s innovation agenda is being questioned again after both the Coalition and Labor agreed to make cuts to Australia’s R&D tax incentive.
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Apple is losing the innovation game, it can’t trap users anymore
Not only is Apple suffering from a major lack of hardware innovation but it’s also being outdone in software and online, where apps reign supreme. It quite possibly signals the company’s eventual demise.
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