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Top 25 insights: spin-off start-ups
What advice do the Top 25 R&D spin-off companies have for future start-ups?
Top 25 insights: start-up challenges
How did the Top 25 R&D spin-off companies overcome major start-up challenges?
Top 25 insights: valley of death
Leaders of the Top 25 R&D spin-off companies share how their companies made it past the ‘valley of death’.
Top 25: international insights
Leaders of the Top 25 R&D spin-off companies talk about the lessons they have taken from overseas markets.
Top 25 insights: venture capital
What do some of the Top 25 R&D spin-off company executives have to say about overcoming risk and attracting capital?
Top 25 R&D spin-offs
Meet the best in the business – Australian companies that have successfully moved their R&D from lab to marketplace.
Women in science and business
For Australia to move forward with a new #ideasboom, promoting collaboration and partnerships over pure academic achievement, women in science must lead the charge.
Collaborate or crumble
Finding collaborators and creating an interdisciplinary culture is key to successful research commercialisation.
Connecting graduates with businesses
Australian companies are collaborating with early career researchers to find commercial solutions to real-life problems.
How do octopi say hi
After watching more than 52 hours of octopus video footage researchers have found octopuses do have a social life – and it’s not without drama.
Meet the innovators
The Knowledge Nation 100 highlights the innovators leading Australia’s STEM economy.
Innovation and Science on Turnbull agenda
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently announced the creation of a National Innovation and Science Agenda.
Growth factor
Curtin’s John De Laeter Centre, a suite of high-precision instruments and global collaborations are creating an innovation hub, where engineering and science researchers partner with industry.
Oceans of wealth
Curtin University is supporting crucial research in managing precious water resources.
Small scale, big consequences
Researchers examine the world on an atomic and subatomic level to solve major problems.
Saving grains
Communication, genetics expertise and on-the-ground knowledge help distinguish the research outcomes of Curtin’s Centre for Crop and Disease Management.
Continents collide
Curtin University geoscientists use cutting-edge techniques to tell the story of Earth’s ancient past.
Fuelling the future
Curtin University showcases complex engineering strengths to address climate change and sustainability.
Across the skies
Building the world’s biggest radio telescope is set to bring rewards beyond a better understanding of the universe.
Microtechnology manufacturing success
MiniFAB have risen to success through the production of micro-scale technologies produced for a global market.
Smart waste solutions with algae and more
MBD Energy is utilising algae and other sources of energy for smart waste solutions.
Irrigation innovation
Rubicon is an Australian innovation success story involved in massive irrigation projects in China.
Australia Asia innovation
A revolution in the commercialisation of science ingenuity is taking Australian ideas abroad – with a strong focus on reaching the Asian market and furthering Australia Asia innovation.
The big business of hearables
Start ups and electronic powerhouses such as Samsung and Apple are investing in tech that can control your noise environment.