James Riley

After a shaky start, the Australian designed and manufactured cube satellite CUAVA-2 is moving back on mission following a reboot and is now undergoing commissioning of services.

The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has made a $25 million equity investment in South Australian IoT and satellite startup Myriota as part of a broader $50 million funding round.

The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has announced a $22.5 million investment in secure data infrastructure provider Vault Cloud, bringing its total investments into Australian companies in the past month to $100 million. The investment in Vault, announced by NRFC chair Martijn Wilder on Friday, is the first into the fund’s Defence Capability priority area, and will be used to develop and deploy new services including an AUKUS cloud capability, among other things. The NRFC’s investment is part of Vault’s Series B funding round, with additional capital to come from private Australian investors.

Gather around dear readers, for it is time to deliver our most popular column of the year. Yes, the InnovationAus Ultimate Guide to Summer Reading has landed for 2024. We are traditionalists here. We follow a process. Which is to say that we have reached out to the leaders of our sometimes weird and always...

Gather around dear readers, for it is time to deliver our most popular column of the year. Yes, the InnovationAus.com Ultimate Guide to Summer Reading has landed for 2024.

In recent years, the field of quantum computing has been experiencing fast growth, with technological advances and large-scale investments regularly making the news. The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The stakes are high – having quantum computers would mean access to tremendous data processing power compared...

Gilmour Space Technologies has started 2025 in the same position it finished 2024: Without a final permit from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and consequently without a launch date.

As innovation assumes centre stage in national economic strategy, the governance of knowledge-intensive ecosystems has emerged as a critical policy challenge. This is particularly the case with Sydney’s Tech Central – an ambitious experiment in orchestrating innovation at scale across 250 hectares of established urban landscape. This complex ecosystem demands sophisticated coordination approaches that can...