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Australia needs a management skills upgrade  4/8/2012
Australia needs a management skills upgrade
Innovation capability is the key to Australia's future success in manufacturing and other sectors, according to Professor Roy Green, Dean of the UTS Business School and Andrew Liveris, ...
Material testing market bounces back  4/2/2012
Material testing market bounces back
The sector is much healthier, but heavyweight vendor dominance restricts opportunities for smaller companies.
Supercapacitor breakthrough to drive electric car technology  4/2/2012
Supercapacitor breakthrough to drive electric car technology
Enhanced supercapacitors offer promise as alternative energy source for portable devices and electric vehicles.
Intelligent design: Wise up and build for the climate  3/28/2012
Intelligent design: Wise up and build for the climate
There may be no belching smoke stacks to be seen, but every time we thoughtlessly put up a poorly designed structure or resort to energy-intensive solutions to cool, heat, and operate ...
Challenging questions as the 'Asian Century' begins  3/28/2012
Challenging questions as the 'Asian Century' begins
Asia's boom economies, led by China and India, must overcome a series of complex challenges to guarantee the region's long-term prosperity, according to Asian Development Bank ...
Industrial waste can power desalination, scientists claim  3/23/2012
Industrial waste can power desalination, scientists claim
Victoria University scientists have shown the viability of a new desalination technology that uses almost no electricity and has the potential to save huge amounts of water.
Solar cell turns windows into generators  3/23/2012
Solar cell turns windows into generators
Imagine a world where the windows of high-rise office buildings are powerful energy producers, offering its inhabitants much more than some fresh air, light and a view.
Global emissions surge back after GFC  3/23/2012
Global emissions surge back after GFC
A recent spike in worldwide carbon emissions growth was caused by the rebound from the global financial crisis (GFC) and is likely to be a one-off, according to a new study from The ...
Australian multinationals battle brain drain  3/14/2012
Australian multinationals battle brain drain
Australian-born multinationals are investing more in holding onto their key people than foreign-owned firms in an effort to fight the brain drain, according to a new study.
Apprentice electricians underpaid and undervalued: research  3/8/2012
Apprentice electricians underpaid and undervalued: research
Despite Australia's critical shortage of skilled workers, many trade apprentices are living on a wage that falls below the poverty line and is barely higher than the unemployment ...
Australian innovators in solar world first  2/21/2012
Australian innovators in solar world first
In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world's most efficient broadband ...
China at the heart of Alcoa's woes: expert claims  2/17/2012
China at the heart of Alcoa's woes: expert claims
Writing in The Conversation, Swinburne Professor of Engineering Mathematics Geoff Brooks claims the metallurgical industry is under real threat, not from angry environmentalists, ...
New roofing materials cut carbon footprint  2/17/2012
New roofing materials cut carbon footprint
Roofing materials that double as solar panels and can also moderate the temperature of buildings are among the next-generation building products being developed at UNSW.
Future advanced steels for the automotive industry  2/17/2012
Future advanced steels for the automotive industry
Motorists of the future can look forward to safer vehicles which leave a smaller carbon footprint thanks to pioneering research being carried out in UOW’s Faculty of Engineering.
Organisations push for common M2M Service Layer standard  2/3/2012
Organisations push for common M2M Service Layer standard
Bodies recognise need for cooperative standards development to ensure connectivity between myriad of M2M devices in the field.
Business investment in new technologies improve performance  1/27/2012
Business investment in new technologies improve performance
The latest Australian Industry Group/Deloitte National CEO report, Business Investment in New Technologies, examines business investment in new technologies over the past three years. ...
Scorpions inspire scientists to make tougher machinery  1/27/2012
Scorpions inspire scientists to make tougher machinery
Wear and tear on moving machinery parts requires regular maintenance and comes at a considerable cost. However new US research is taking lessons from one of nature's born survivors ...
Vehicle fuel efficiency - where have all the savings gone?  1/26/2012
Vehicle fuel efficiency - where have all the savings gone?
Carmakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades — but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist from the US explains ...
Which industries will fly and fall in 2012?  1/23/2012
Which industries will fly and fall in 2012?
As Australian operators prepare for the year ahead, business information research firm IBISWorld reveals its annual list nominating the top industries set to soar in 2012, and those ...
Research drives solutions to improve unsealed roads  1/11/2012
Research drives solutions to improve unsealed roads
A Kansas State University graduate student sees the unpaved road ahead, and it's filled with biomaterial.
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