Steering straight to farm productivity increases - satellite technology
Picture this: an automatically steered farm tractor that saves time, improves crops and aids in drought resistance. Yes, its here today, and it is generating export earnings for Australia.

The Money or the Box: Lessons from LookSmart
LookSmart, an internet business, is creating value. Evan Thornley, chairman, will tell us what has made LookSmart, one of the World's leading internet companies. How can Australia replicate that success elsewhere?

Innovation: Beyond the idea
Innovation is the achievement in real life of what lies beyond the idea...what makes the idea possible...creating economic wealth and worthwhile change...where engineers usually make their mark.

Making money from invention
So you've got an invention? The best route to success will depend on many things. Recent media focus has been on company formation. Direct collaboration and licensing are also good ways to create and capture value.

Congratulations to an innovation winner
WeldPrint won the $100,000 Peter Doherty Australia Award for Innovation at Australia's Innovation Fair and Forum of Ideas in March 2003 from almost 200 ideas on show.

Pushing the Engineering Envelope: Two decades of Warren Centre Achievement
Celebrating the Centre's 20th anniversary, and a very good read, the book takes a retrospective look at the nature of our work and pays tribute to the hundreds of people who have contributed so much to our success.

International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Engineers are trained to design and build things, but do we really understand the maths supporting the many software tools we use.

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