Four things Malcolm Turnbull needs to know about innovation

Mark Kendall's Nanopatch is smaller than a postage stamp, and can inject disease-fighting vaccines cheaper and faster than previously possible.

Mark Kendall, one of Australia's top researchers, knows what needs to be done to create innovation. He's been there.

Jeremy Utley, left, and Perry Klebahn say a conscious effort is needed to embrace change.

Embrace change and learn from disruption

Don't shrink from disruption, embrace it, says the Stanford d.school, one of the world's leading centres of design thinking.

Doron Ben-Meir, University of Melbourne, says the common objective is to see a better translation of research.

Universities, CSIRO in drive for $200m early-stage fund

Ben Potter

Top universities are in talks with the CSIRO to set up a $200 million early stage commercialisation fund.

Encouraging staff to exercise can benefit employers, especially those that are self-insured, by cutting health bills.

Barclays to shrink staff with 75,000 Fitbits

Caroline Chen

Barclays, the UK lender that's promised shareholders it will become leaner and stronger, is encouraging its workforce to follow suit.

Peter Orszag says punitive income and wealth taxes recommended by Professor Piketty aren't the answer to excessive returns on capital.

Piketty got inequality wrong says former Obama budget chief

Ben Potter

Celebrity economist Thomas Piketty got his diagnosis of inequality wrong, and his remedy too, Citigroup vice-chairman Peter Orszag says.

University of Newcastle engineer Graeme Jameson saved the coal industry $36 billion with a new process that captured fine coal particles.

Scientist who saved industry billions wins innovation prize

Tim Dodd

University of Newcastle engineer Graeme Jameson, who saved the coal industry $36 billion, has won the Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation.

The PwC survey of multinational corporations found that Australian corporations' digital readiness score of 75 lagged the average of 77.2.

PwC faults banks' and telcos' digital readiness

Ben Potter

Australia's regulated and uncompetitive markets are failing to breed a culture of digital readiness, a new report by PwC says.

Malcolm Turnbull has compiled a list of innovators he can talk about later this year.

'Seriousness of purpose' in PM's innovation roundtable

Ben Potter

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull assembled a Who's Who of start-ups, technology companies, university and public agency researchers for his innovation roundtable on Friday to gather ideas for an innovation statement later this year.

Paul McCready's Gossamer Albatross crossed the English Channel in 1979.

A willingness to fail solved the problem of human-powered flight

Anthony Morris

A new course from the Stanford Centre for Professional Development teaches the same design thinking approach that led to Paul MacCready's success with human-powered flight.

Turnbull calls on unis to turn ideas into cash

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has summoned university and research agency chiefs to a round table in western Sydney to drive "innovation"...

HR tech firm Reffind's shares surge after big name customer wins

Yolanda Redrup

Listed HR technology company Reffind is firming up as one of the tech success story of the year, with five more big name clients signing up.

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