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Issue 42, May 2005
In this issue: Headlines
Events
The
Last Word
Meet the innovation challenges
Paul Salteri challenged
us all to create innovation champions, to factor innovation into
long-term economic planning and strategies and to make innovation a
national goal in the 2005 Innovation Lecture. <more>
Innovation knows no boundaries
Sleep apnoea treatment, a knee prosthesis and defence technology:
winners of the prestigious annual Warren Centre Innovation Hero
Awards for 2005 show that innovation has no boundaries <more>
Innovation too often takes a back seat
Four recent surveys of companies in Australia and USA have
identified shortcomings in innovation management particularly
the effectiveness of R&D spending, management of intellectual
assets, and new product development.
<more>
The keys to success: get great people and know your market
Got
a great innovation with the potential to make a billion or two? Make
sure you involve people who know the market and know what they are
doing!<more>
Australians snare key metal hardening technology
A
Melbourne company has acquired a metal hardening
process from the US Department of Energy and is working with a local
university and a US power company to commercialise the technology. <more>
How long is a digital life?
“Five years or forever - whichever comes first” - This rhetorical
answer from a feature piece in the Scientific American several years
ago still contains an unsettling germ of truth – it may be a very
short life indeed. <more>
Are you interested in the creation or use of large buildings?
If
you are interested in large buildings, either their creation or
their use, then you might be able to make a great contribution to
our Steel: Framing the Future project or our Low Energy High Rise
project.<more>
Nuclear power for Australia: unacceptable, irrelevant or inevitable?
Can
Australia afford to leave the nuclear power genie safely locked away
in the lamp, not to be stroked under any circumstances? Can we
afford not to? <more>
Mentoring and coaching can build your organisation’s future
Incorporating mentoring and coaching into a management development
program can build high-performing managers and executives and equip an organisation to best exploit
future opportunities.<more>
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Warren Centre Events
Risk Communication
(with NZ Centre for Advanced
Engineering)
21 July 2005
Contact: Fiona Hearne (02) 9351 7205
fionah@eng.usyd.edu.au
Successful Innovation
6 & 7 October 2005
For PhD students and budding
academics
Contact: Fiona Hearne (02) 9351 7205
fionah@eng.usyd.edu.au
Other Events
New Models for Developing
Australia's Regions
Australian Business Foundation
forum
18 May 2005, Penrith NSW
http://www.abfoundation.com.au/pdf/regdev.pdf
Linking Innovation and
Innovation Planning Development to Corporate Value
Bishop Innovation Management
informal luncheon
19 May 2005, Courtyard by
Marriott, North Ryde
Contact Amie Havercroft 02
9491 6000 or
amie.havercroft@aebishop.com
Nuclear Power for
Australia: Irrelevant or Inevitable?
Australian Institute of Energy
8 June 2005, City Tattersalls
http://www.aie.org.au/syd/Default.htm
Australian Energy & Utility
Summit 2005
27 & 28 June 2005, Sydney
Convention Centre
http://www.acevents.com.au/energy2005/index.html
16th
Convocation: Oceans and the World's Future
International Council of
Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences
10-14 July 2005, Cairns,
Queensland
http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=546
Australian Museum Eureka
Prizes Award Dinner
9 August 2005, Royal Hall of
Industries, Moore Park
http:www.amonline.net.au/eureka
Contact Ruth Carr on 02 9320
6483 or
eureka@austmus.gov.au
National Engineering Week
13-21 August 2005
http://www.sydney.engineersaustralia.org.au
Contact: Michelle Crowshaw 02 8923 7118 or
mcrowshaw@engineersaustralia.org.au
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