A world-first patented electronic capsule developed in Melbourne to help identify gut disorders takes out top spot in an international competition.
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Science and Technology
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Wearable patch to detect UV rays earns prize for RMIT
A team from Melbourne’s RMIT University has invented an award-winning product to help detect harmful levels of UV radiation that cause melanoma.
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Battling the diversity problem in the tech sector
A Q & A with an industry insider: Deirdre Diamante talks barriers and diversity in the tech sector.
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San Francisco calling: Victorian software giant sells for $US1.6 billion
Launched just a decade back, local software company Aconex sold recently for $US1.6 billion. We chart its rise.
AI thriving in Victoria
Victoria is a national leader in artificial intelligence and our economy is reaping the rewards.
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Get your business moving with the Small Business Bus
Could your business do with some free one-on-one advice? Then jump aboard the Small Business Bus.
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Victorian Gas Program helping break gender stereotypes
Life for a woman working in the geoscience sector 40 years ago was, quite literally, like entering a minefield. Today the industry is now different.
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STEM spotlight: rural students win big at ‘Robotics Olympics’
Wangaratta secondary students have beaten 600 other teams to take out one of just six highly-coveted 2018 Service Awards at the ‘Robotics Olympics’.
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Victoria set to become the nation’s medicinal cannabis hotspot
A $16 million investment is helping position Victoria as the country’s main hub for medicinal cannabis.
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Job-ready for the 21st century: girledworld Summit
The girledworld World of Work Summit 2018 at RMIT University on 16 and 17 June puts female tech trailblazers in contact with teenage girls.
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Melbourne’s fight against eye health crisis
Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor and his team are working on phasing out preventable blindness in Australia’s Indigenous communities by 2020.
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Welcome news: world’s biggest pharma firm sets up Victorian partnering office
Johnson & Johnson Innovation is teaming up with one of Victoria’s top research institutions, Monash University. We find out why.
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Monash Uni team on a roving mission to Mars
A Monash University student team has made the finals of an international competition to design and build the next generation of Mars rover vehicles.
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Supporting Aboriginal startups and entrepreneurs
LaunchVic’s latest grant round – closing 24 May – aims to put Aboriginal entrepreneurs into the driver’s seat.
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Melbourne’s bid to make malaria history
We speak to Dr Leanne Robinson from the Burnet Institute and Dr Amanda Caples, Victoria’s Lead Scientist, about the eradication of malaria.
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ManuFutures: the “next generation of advanced manufacturing in Geelong”
WATCH THE VIDEO: By being part of Manufutures – Geelong’s advanced manufacturing innovation & industrial accelerator – Flaim Systems can grow faster.
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A chat with…bionic eye trailblazer, Dr Lauren Ayton
We chart the rise of Dr Lauren Ayton, a 2015 Victoria Fellow recipient who is now a leading bionic eye researcher in New York.
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Melbourne on the cybersecurity frontline
We talk with CyberGym CEO Ofir Hason, whose company has helped to create jobs to help Victorian businesses fight cybercrime.
