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| Oct 23, 2023 | Rural women’s business award is a “gift that keeps on giving” for winemaker Ali Paulett | Ali Paulett, managing director of Paulett Wines. Source: supplied article-article-body
South Australia’s 2023 winner of the AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award is encouraging other women to apply for the prize, which she says has had a huge imp... |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Aussie oven manufacturer fires up its export opportunities with first shipment to US market | South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskis and Electrolux's Phil Saloniklis. Source: The Lead.
The Swedish company started manufacturing built-in and table-top ovens out of Adelaide, South Australia in 2001. Last week, the factory sent... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Meet the South Australian business taking its smart street furniture to the world | Source: supplied.
An Adelaide engineering company has further plans to tackle the global market with an export-friendly line of smart furniture and modular buildings.
Since the COVID-19 lockdown, Specialised Solutions has seen strong demand... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | XFrame, Innovyz and Micro-X: The South Australian manufacturers breaking into the US market | The Tonsley Innovation District in Adelaide, South Australia. Source: The lead.
Global engineering companies, tech firms and manufacturing businesses based out of the Tonsley Innovation District in Adelaide, South Australia are among those ... |
| Sep 2, 2022 | After lighting up South Australian stadiums, VALO is looking to take its business international | Source: The lead.
Stadium lighting technology specialist, VALO, which was founded in Adelaide, South Australia 10 years ago, has partnered with organisations such as the Adelaide United Football Club and Illuminate Adelaide.
The manufacture... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | The South Australian startup helping those with physical and cognitive impairments use smart devices | Layne has been using eye gaze technology for about 10 years. Source: Tobii Dynavox/The Lead.
Link Assistive develops assistive technology to help those with physical and cognitive disabilities use smart devices.
Previously based in a house ... |
| Jul 12, 2022 | V-STAR to bring its vertical take-off and landing aircraft to Australia | The TriFan 600 is a tilt ducted plane being developed by XTI Aircraft in Denver, Colorado. Source: The Lead.
V-STAR has plans to bring vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft to Australia for regional travel, aeromedical and search an... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | How Kiminnes Ol’ School Shearing is rethinking the shearing shed hierarchy | Sarah-Jane Abley is developing a new way to manage shearing teams. Source: The Lead.
When Sarah-Jane Abley’s shearing team steps onto the boards of shearing sheds around South Australia, out goes any hierarchy and instead the team just gets... |
| Jun 8, 2022 | How this Australian-made app helps growers and farmers manage their land through 5G | Source: The Lead.
Growers are increasingly interested in the advantages that 5G has to offer the industry by saving money, time and maximising yield.
Platfarm is a spatially-based tasking and GPS tracking app for the viticulture industry de... |
| Jun 7, 2022 | Why this 30-year-old bar in the South Australian outback added a microbrewery and joined the craft beer scene | Milling the barley onsite at The Prairie. Source: Robert Lang/The Lead.
You can travel a long way in the Australian outback to find an ice-cold ale, and one of South Australia’s best-known bush watering holes has come up with the perfect so... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Aussie deep science startup Reask is calculating climate catastrophe on a global scale | Adelaide's Lot Fourteen. Source: The Lead
Reask co-founder Nick Hassam is speaking at InsurTech Connect Asia in Singapore this week as part of an AusTrade delegation to explain how the company uses data, technology and high-performance... |
| May 31, 2022 | Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to feature dedicated South Australian page with 2500 products | Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has agreed to sell more than 400 additional South Australian food and beverage products in a new partnership with the government of SA.
The online retailer, which is second only to Amazon with a 27% share o... |
| May 13, 2022 | How this Aussie startup is helping businesses understand the financial impact of climate change | Source: Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema
Rohan Hamden admits his global risk management company XDI: The Cross Dependency Initiative was “ahead of the curve”.
XDI, an adaptive climate startup headquartered at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide, South Australia... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | This farm and local business partnership is bringing affordable meat to rural Australians | Robyn Verrall. Source: Bully's Meat.
Winner of the 2022 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award, Robyn Verrall is on a quest to bring fresh, low-cost produce to country people through local business Kere to Country.
Living regionally and runni... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Regional SA leads real estate boom with 7.4% growth in first quarter | The Yorke Peninsula has become a real estate hotspot as country South Australia takes the mantle for the fastest growing regional house prices in the nation.
CoreLogic’s Home Value Index for the 12 months to March 31 shows the property mark... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | Oyster company reports record sales figures despite Coffin Bay shutdown | Major South Australian oyster producer Angel Seafood has reported record sales in 2021 despite a four-week closure due to a disease outbreak in the lead up to Christmas that cost it more than $1.7 million in lost sales and refunds.
The list... |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Australian Space Park to foster international collaboration between SMEs | An artist impression of the Australian Space Park. Source: supplied.
Australia’s first dedicated space manufacturing hub will move the nascent industry from nationwide-scattered think tanks to ‘can-do’ capabilities.
The space park, to be lo... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | SA continues leading the Australian space race with new licence granted to Southern Launch | The Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex on the tip of the Eyre Peninsula. Photo: Southern Launch.
Three test rockets are set to be launched from South Australia within months, after the company behind the launchpad complex secured a licence ... |
| Jun 21, 2021 | South Australian space startups reveal plans for international industry growth | Fleet Space Technologies’ ground tracking station north of Adelaide. Source: The Lead
In a week of big announcements, three South Australian startups last week furthered their plans to support the international space industry.
All based in ... |
| Jun 11, 2021 | Mighty Craft scoops up South Australian producers in $47 million deal | LOT.100 producers (from top left) Marc Huber, Sacha La Forgia, Leigh Morgan, Toby Kline, Steve Dorman, Vanessa Altamann (bottom left) and Ewan Brewerton. Source: The Lead
Melbourne-based drinks business Mighty Craft has announced plans to b... |
| May 21, 2021 | LVX Global moves global headquarters to South Australia’s tech and innovation hub Lot Fourteen | Adelaide's Lot Fourteen. Source: The Lead
LVX Global will move its global headquarters from Perth to Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen technology and innovation hub in August.
The technology solutions company manages public and private sector Sm... |
| May 10, 2021 | Tax offset announcement puts South Australia at the forefront to attract and foster video game developers | Source: Unsplash/Alex Haney.
South Australia is boosting the video game industry by combining national and state tax rebates in a proven formula that will help keep IP in the country.
Dan Thorsland, a game development consultant who has bee... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | Adelaide-based Rising Sun Pictures eyes global growth after being acquired by Hollywood studio | Rising Sun Pictures co-founder Tony Clark says the sale to FuseFx will allow RSP to expand. Image: Ben Kelly.
Visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures has been bought by Hollywood studio FuseFX, in a move that the Rising Sun says will help... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | SA startup Pickstar is incorporating AI to improve matchmaking | The Australian Institute of Machine Learning. Source: The Lead
The Australian Institute for Machine Learning is providing startup hiring company Pickstar the tools it needs to drive its business with data, proving a valuable link between un... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | International startups to relocate to SA for Venture Catalyst Space, Australia’s first dedicated space incubator | Venture Catalyst Space 2021 cohort participants: (L to R) Dr Giles Kirby, (Firefly Biotech), Lloyd Jacob (Hex20), Tessa-Ewens (Locus Rose), Guler Kocak (SPACELIS). Source: Innovation and Collaboration Centre, Rosina Possingham.
Nine compani... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Adelaide-based satellite manufacturer Fleet Space Technologies launches fifth commercial nanosatellite | Fleet Space, Centauri 3 launching into orbit on Tuesday 23 March. Photo: Rocket Lab
Adelaide-based satellite manufacturer Fleet Space Technologies has successfully launched its fifth commercial nanosatellite and is looking to expand product... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | New Zealand startup Winely joins South Australian Landing Pad program | Winely co-founders, CEO Jacob Manning and chief technology officer Abbe Hyde. Source: The Lead
As vintage gets underway in South Australia, wine-tech company Winely has joined the South Australian Landing Pad program to set up shop in the w... |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Cashed-up Codan puts aside more than $100 million for a tactical US acquisition | A Codan 'Manpack'. Source: The Lead.
Australian tech company Codan will pay more than $100 million to buy US-based Domo Tactical Communications from a private equity firm.
The South Australian technology company with business pill... |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Micro-X raises $30 million to fast-track its x-ray products and expand into the US | Micro-X managing director Peter Rowland and South Australian Premier Steven Marshall pose with the Nano (L to R). Source: Tonsley.
Micro-X has received funding commitments of $30.5 million to help expand its US footprint and fast-track new ... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | The startup that built Kayla Itsines’ SWEAT app just developed a smartphone app to combat global biological threats | Hinney Lo of PixelForce in Adelaide, South Australia.
The Torrens Resilience Institute (TRI) at Flinders University in Adelaide has worked with web and mobile app developer PixelForce to develop the smartphone app that will help frontline w... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | South Australian startup secures $3.2 million government contract for its space-traffic tech | Silentium Defence co-founders Simon Palumbo and Dr James Palmer (L to R). Source: The Lead.
Silentium Defence has secured a $3.2 million contract from the Australian Department of Defence to advance, deploy and demonstrate its passive radar... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | South Australian startup GoMicro secures deal with 100 Sri Lankan supermarkets for tech democratising tuna grading | Source: Unsplash/Prongs94.
Created in Adelaide, South Australia, the GoMicro artificial intelligence microscope has previously been used in a kit to diagnose leishmaniasis in war-torn nations, on farms to identify pests, and in schools as a... |
| Oct 2, 2020 | South Australian startup commences connected vehicle trial, allowing cars to ‘talk’ to infrastructure | Cohda Wireless chief executive officer Paul Gray.
A South Australian-based V2X technology company has today begun a connected vehicle trial in Queensland which will help explore the future of co-operative intelligent transport systems.
Abou... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | South Australian e-invoicing startup Link4 lands contract with Treasury to improve small business cashflow | Link4 CTO Sam Hassan, CEO Robin Sands and sales manager Andrew Bennett (L to R back row) with the product, sales and marketing team. Image: supplied.
An Australian government promise to pay its suppliers faster has led to a collaboration be... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Startup founder, sheep farmer, university researcher and government advisor Penny Schulz says, when it comes to agtech, SA is “where it’s at” | Agtech researcher, creator, adopter, consultant and advocate Penny Schulz.
Beef and sheep farmer Penny Schulz, co-owner and manager of ‘Coolaroo’ in South Australia, has long been an avid adopter of agtech solutions to improve productivity.... |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Australia’s first space-capable rocket set to launch from outback SA | Southern Launch's Lloyd Damp, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and DEWC Systems' Ian Spencer (L to R). Photo: James Knowler.
Two South Australian companies are joining forces to launch Australia’s first space-capable rocket from the ... |
| Aug 14, 2020 | “The value traceability brings”: Meet the SA agtech using blockchain to track food from paddock to plate | Trust Provenance in action.
Andrew Grant has co-founded several agtech startups, including smart tracking software solution Trust Provenance, from his base in Adelaide, South Australia.
The platform integrates data points along the supply c... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | “A lot more hesitant”: Wearable-tech-for-babies startup turns to crowdfunding as recession dries up investor interest | Goldilocks Suit has turned to crowdfunding to bring it one step closer to the full-scale production of its baby sensor singlet after the COVID-19 recession dried up other sources of funding.
The South Australian-based company recently annou... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | “The global gold standard”: Aussie startup Presagen launches its AI fertility app in the UK and Europe | Co-founders Dr Jonathan Hall, Dr Michelle Perugini and Dr Don Perugini. Source: Matt Loxton.
An Australian company that uses artificial intelligence to increase the chance of pregnancy through IVF has launched its software application in th... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Adelaide’s CORE Innovation Hub to bolster collaboration between startups and mining companies | CORE Innovation Hub state manager Renee Hakendorf. Source: Serena Findlay/The Lead.
A centre to strengthen ties between Australia’s mining and tech industries will be established in Adelaide to drive innovation across the sector.
Unveiling ... |
| Jun 2, 2020 | Vitality drink Kanguru hops straight into 24,000 South Korean stores as local beverage eyes international market | Kanguru creator Dr David Kitchen. Source: The Lead
A South Australian vitality drink created by an eye surgeon has been launched in South Korea, with the distinctly Aussie beverage set to be stocked in 24,000 convenience stores there within... |
| May 11, 2020 | How Teamgage’s new COVID-19 tool won over 1,200 users in three days | The Teamgage team. Source: UniSA.
Husband and wife team Ben and Noelle Smit launched Teamgage commercially in 2016 from Adelaide and the company has since been adopted by Australian state and national organisations including Santos, SA Wate... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | From elite athletes to remote workers: Lumin Sports pivots on the back of a $650,000 raise | A user profile on the Lumin app.
First created to help elite athletes manage their training, Lumin Sports’ software is now finding its way into home offices as its South Australian creator launches a new platform for corporations dealing wi... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | This app is helping employers check in on the wellbeing of staff working from home | Interest in new software designed to monitor the wellbeing and social connectedness of employees working from home is on the rise as companies look for ways to engage with staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Developed by South Australian co... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | ShelterSpace sees demand climb for its underground homes in wake of Australian bushfires | ShelterSpace’s Dale Lloyd and Paul Mitchell. Source: Angela Skujins
A South Australian architectural builder has seen demand soar for its fire resistant earth-sheltered houses.
ShelterSpace founder Paul Mitchell has been designing and build... |
| Feb 25, 2020 | Adelaide firm strikes gold with record $30 million profit thanks to booming metal detector sales | Source: The Lead
South Australian technology company Codan Limited has announced a record half-year profit of $30.4 million on the back of booming sales of its hi-tech metal detecting and communications equipment.
The Adelaide-based company... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | Bushfire-mapping tech developed by South Australian startup deployed to Californian hotspots | Real-time aerial mapping used to help the Australian Army in the devastating South Australian bushfires is being deployed to support the Californian fire season.
The technology, developed by Adelaide company FireFlight, was tested at the Ka... |
| Feb 5, 2020 | South Australia’s space incubator is looking for the next Elon Musk | The Venture Catalyst Space program class of 2019. Source: The Lead
Australia’s first space industry incubator has opened applications for its third intake and is looking to help international companies break into the sector.
Now in its thir... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | “An obligation to go global”: Aussie farming software startup to enter the UK | Source: The Lead
An Australian software platform to help farmers manage the compliance requirements of running a modern agribusiness will be commercially trialled in the United Kingdom this month.
The Safe Ag Systems software launched in 20... |
| Dec 31, 2019 | The 5 biggest battery innovations of 2019 | Battery life has become one of technology’s biggest hurdles as the adoption of smartphones and devices continues to skyrocket across the world. More about Innovation
NVIDIA moves to front of the AI pack with software, hardware, app advances... |
| Dec 20, 2019 | The science of work-life balance and what it means for you | Ever wondered what balance of exercise, sleep, food and work delivers the best outcomes for your physical and mental health? A team of scientists led by researchers in South Australia is embarking on a four-year study to find out.
The inter... |
| Dec 1, 2019 | Stone & Chalk celebrates Adelaide launch with investment milestone | Leading Australasian not-for-profit Stone & Chalk has officially launched its South Australian co-working space in Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen innovation neighbourhood. The tech startup hub is already home to 130 entrepreneurs from 30 start... |
| Aug 28, 2019 | The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre secures $8.9 million in funding and a home in Adelaide | The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre will be established at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct in Adelaide later this year.
The $8.9million centre will support startups, scale-ups and existing businesses to launch new products and se... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | Space and agtech startups team up on IoT satellite network delivering rainfall data to Aussie farmers | Myriota’s executive team (left to right) Tom Rayner, Dr Alex Grant, Dr David Haley and Karina McLauchlan. Photographer: Rosina Possingham.
South Australian satellite communications company Myriota and Queensland agtech business Goanna Ag ha... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | ‘Opening up connectivity’: Why Specialised Solutions is creating solar-powered furniture for public spaces | A piece of solar-powered Sedi furniture.
Bronte Modra, the director of Adelaide-based modular engineering company Specialised Solutions, created the Sedi range of park benches, parklets and bus stops in February this year.
The smart shelter... |
| Jul 30, 2019 | South Australia’s new wine and tourism accelerator Foment will open its doors to national and international startups alike | Foment, SA’s ‘wine and tourism tech revolution’, will be run out of the Tonsley Innovation Hub in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, and is a collaboration between Hydra Consulting, Flinders University’s New Venture Institute and Wine Indust... |
| Jul 17, 2019 | ‘A game-changer for wind farms’: Ping Services closes $650,000 seed round after bagging $200,000 in government funding earlier this year | The Ping Services team: Matthew Stead, Naja Dohm, Jon Cooper, Jake Bott and York Possemiers (left to right). Source: Rosina Possingham.
Adelaide-based company Ping Services has closed a $650,000 seed fund round after securing an additional ... |
| Jul 15, 2019 | South Australian startup Care Konnect launches social media platform for aged-care residents | Care Konnect founder and chief executive officer Sean Grealy.
Developed by South Australian startup Care Konnect, the digital app provides users end-to-end with a live news feed containing updates about their activities, along with an insta... |
| Jul 8, 2019 | Adelaide startup partners with RIDE to roll out eco-friendly method for recharging scooters | EcoCaddy founder Daniels Langeberg has partnered with RIDE e-scooters to further reduce the service's carbon footprint in Adelaide.
By Jessica Bassano.
The small carbon victory of shunning taxis and buses in favour of e-scooters is qui... |
| Jun 28, 2019 | Sports drink startup looks to US after $950,000 raise | An Australian sports drink developed at leading universities will use its latest round of funding to expand nationally ahead of a US launch next year.
Preserve Health has raised more than $A950,000 ($US661,000) in a Pre-Series A round to fu... |
| Jun 24, 2019 | Young entrepreneurs heading to SA as state tops UK for early-stage opportunities | South Australia's young entrepreneurs were celebrated at the 40 Under 40 Awards on 6 June 2019.
South Australia outperforms most other developed economies on indicators relating to the quality and economic impact of business startups, ... |
| Jun 11, 2019 | Human Aerospace’s founders are ensuring tech developed for space can be used by regular earthlings too | Dr Gordon Cable during a Mars mission simulation.
Dr James Waldie and Dr Gordon Cable founded Human Aerospace in Adelaide, South Australia this year to ensure technologies developed from future space explorations also offer terrestrial bene... |
| May 24, 2019 | “We can’t manage what we can’t measure”: Nanosatellites startup Myriota teams up with Eagle.io to monitor global water supplies | Myriota's Dr Alex Grant and Dr David Haley at their office in Lot Fourteen in Adelaide, South Australia. Source: Rosina Possingham.
Myriota, a nanosatellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity leader based in South Australia, has tea... |
| May 24, 2019 | Meet the 13-year-old fighting climate change with compost and artificial intelligence | Max Weir explains his invention to Australian high commissioner to Malaysia Andrew Goledzinowski in Kuala Lumpur.
Max Weir attended the Malaysian Invention and Design Society’s World Young Inventors Exhibition earlier this month where his p... |
| May 14, 2019 | On-the-move worker safety app WorkSafe Guardian eyes US expansion after three years of 100% growth | WorkSafe Guardian co-founders Greg Lindner (left) and Adam Whittaker (right). Photographer: Sam Oster.
By Angela Skujins
A South Australian mobile app designed to monitor the welfare of solo workers is moving into new industries and global ... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Ping secures $170,000 in grant funding for tech that detects wind turbine damage | Ping chief executive officer Matthew Stead. Source: Supplied.
Adelaide-based startup Ping was awarded a $170,000 Australian Government Accelerating Commercialisation grant last week to help trial, upscale, connect and launch its device on d... |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Former NASA astronaut joins nanosatellite startup Myriota’s board as space industry continues to commercialise | Former NASA astronaut Pamela Melroy.
By Andrew Spence
Former space shuttle commander Pamela Melroy has joined the board of Australian satellite communications company Myriota as it moves towards its goal of creating a constellation of 50 na... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | Blockchain startup Wright Technologies wins trip to France to promote tamper-proof drone tracking system | The Wright Technologies team.
By Andrew Spence
A South Australian startup that is using blockchain to securely track and identify drones will head to France next week to meet with major defence and aerospace companies.
Adelaide-based Wright... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | New $28 million startup fund to offer support for South Australian ventures | New South Australian chief entrepreneur Jim Whalley. Source: Supplied.
By Lizzie Rogers
The $28 million Research, Commercialisation and Startup Fund will target new and existing business and research enterprises in South Australia, with a f... |
| Nov 30, 2018 | “The right blend”: $1 billion medicinal cannabis industry set to boom in South Australia | The cannabis plant.
By Lizzie Rogers
Leaders from the medicinal cannabis industry met in Adelaide this week to discuss the future of the drug in Australia.
The Future of Medicinal Cannabis symposium, organised by medicinal cannabis producer... |
| Nov 21, 2018 | Australia’s space and AI industries get a $35 million boost from CSIRO | Fleet co-founder and chief executive Flavia Tata Nardini. Source: Supplied.
By Andrew Spence
Australia’s space and machine learning industries have received a significant boost following the announcement of $35 million in funding from its n... |
| Oct 8, 2018 | Cohda Wireless’ driverless car trial given green light by South Australia government | By Andrew Spence
The South Australian government has granted Cohda Wireless permission to trial autonomous vehicles in the central business district of the state’s capital Adelaide.
The authorised trial period runs until June 30, 2020, and ... |
| Oct 4, 2018 | LaunchVic allocates $2 million in funding to Medical Device Partnering Program to better support medtech sector | National MDPP director and founder Professor Karen Reynolds.
By Andrew Spence
The Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) began at Flinders University in Adelaide a decade ago and has since expanded into the Tonsley Innovation Hub.
Commerc... |
| Sep 12, 2018 | Silicon energy storage startup 1414 Degrees to list on ASX today after $16.3 million IPO | 1414 Degrees chief technology officer Matthew Johnson and executive chairman Dr Kevin Moriarty. Source: Supplied.
By Andrew Spence
South Australian energy storage startup 1414 Degrees will start trading on the Australian Securities Exchange... |
| Jul 12, 2018 | Fifteen unique startups set to compete for $85,000 at South Australian tech conference Hybrid World Adelaide | By Jim Plouffe
Hybrid World Adelaide has announced the 15 finalists to compete for $85,000 in development grants at its HWA LAB next week in South Australia.
The winning startups, which range from a science communication service to digital ... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Investors show thirst for South Australian startup’s PREPD sports drinks | Preserve Health chief executive David Vincent. Source: Supplied
By Jim Plouffe
A South Australian sports drink startup has raised more than $500,000 in seed capital from eight angel investors.
Flinders University startup Preserve Health wil... |
| Feb 27, 2018 | A South Australian incubator was just named the best in the Asia Pacific | New Venture Institute director Matt Salier (centre) with graduates of the NVI Venture Dorm. Source: Supplied
A university incubator based in Australia’s first innovation hub has been named ‘Top Challenger in Asia-Pacific’ in a leading ranki... |
| Feb 14, 2018 | SA manufacturing innovation lab to push the national adoption of “industry 4.0” | Source: Supplied By Anthony Dodd
The Tonsley Manufacturing Innovation hub in Adelaide is designed to accelerate the national adoption of ‘industry 4.0’ technology among hi-tech and manufacturing businesses, as well as foster research and de... |
| Dec 19, 2017 | SA startup Makers Empire is expanding across the globe thanks to 3D printing deal | By Jim Plouffe
Makers Empire is a startup that has developed award-winning software to help more than 200,000 students translate their design visions into printable 3D creations.
Chief executive Jon Soong said the company had partnered with... |
| May 29, 2017 | With a mission to turn space junk into rocket fuel, South Australian startup Neumann Space prepares for launch | Neumann Space founder Patrick Neumann working on the cathode-anode-coil assembly of his space-junk eating rocket. Picture: Horst Burghardt.
By Caleb Radford
A rocket that fuels itself by eating space junk is being prepared for its first spa... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | Adelaide tech firm Cohda Wireless to test driverless cars after securing $2 million in government funding | By Caleb Radford
Driverless car technology that allows vehicles to “see” around corners will be tested on city streets for the first time.
Australian company Cohda Wireless will use a $2 million government grant to purchase two autonomous c... |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Innovative oyster baskets improving production in Australia | Innovative *oyster baskets made by Australian firm SEAPA are selling well in the U.S. and France and leading the company to establish offices around the world.
SEAPA, based in Adelaide, South Australia, has grown significantly in the past 1... |
| Oct 7, 2016 | New method of shucking oysters catches marketers’ eyes | A new method of shucking oysters, developed in Australia, will make the opening process easier and also present marketing opportunities, according to its creator.
Simmonds Seafood Marketing Agencies came up with the idea of creating an open... |
| Jun 23, 2015 | Greece offers new proposals in the lead up to debt deadline; CBD car parking start-up raises $2.5 million: Midday Roundup | Euro zone finance ministers have carefully welcomed new reform proposals from Greece, which may help defer the looming default the country faces, Fairfax reports.
With the June 30 deadline looming, Greece is struggling to find the €1.6 bill... |
| Meet the South Australian agtech helping farmers safely spray pesticides using AI | Part of the COtL Mesonet network in Wynarka. Source: Twitter/COTl Mesonet
Conditions Over the Landscape (COtL) is a local agricultural technology company that establishes and manages high-quality public weather station networks in agricultu... |
| How local business app became a hit for Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island traders | Source: Fleurieu app
The all-in-one Fleurieu App has reached 50,000 downloads, a milestone founder Susie Williams hopes will help even more people support the region.
Launched by Williams in 2019, the app was intended to support businesses ... |
| #SaveAussieProsecco gains steam as winemakers fight EU’s attempt to restrict the grape’s variety | Source: Unsplash/Aleisha Kalina
Industry honchos are calling on the Australian Government to fight back in its current negotiations on the Australia-European Community Agreement on Trade in Wine as the EU tries to add 50 new geographical in... |
| SA government funds trial facility for non-alcoholic wines | Source: Unsplash/Kym Ellis
South Australian grape and wine producers will soon be able to access a facility to experiment with no and low-alcohol wine products for a rapidly growing global market.
The University of Adelaide and the Australi... |