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Melbourne based renewable energy Company signs deal with AGL

March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

We would like to give you a brief update on some breaking news from our client Cetus Energy.
We have been working closely with the founding team at Cetus for the past 15 months assisting them with both their corporate and commercialisation strategies. Pleasingly, over that time, the business has made some giant leaps forward. [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Government · Organic Growth · Sustainability · environment · utilities

Climate Change Response: The Google Method

February 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Below is an article from Business Spectator which I have linked to and also taken the liberty of reprinting in full because I believe it is extraordinarily important and reflective of both the opportunity climate change presents business and also indicative of why the gold rush 2.0 is well underway.
Google’s search for smart power
February 24, 2010
Giles Parkinson
Most people expect there to be a [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Government · Sustainability

The New Gold Rush 2.0

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

A gold rush has started. One of the biggest, if not the biggest race in human history.
We are talking about a mad grab for the fortunes that will define the next 100 or possibly 300 years. This is dynastic in implication, geopolitical in nature and paradigm shifting in impact. Individuals and companies will make fortunes that will make the money made by the [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Government · Organic Growth · Sustainability · Uncategorized

A post Copenhagen Climate Change response for business. Simplified.

February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I attended a fascinating lunch today on what the climate change world will look like post Copenhagen.
The top line summary was that while it would be nice to think a solution will be politically led, the reality is that it simply won’t be. It will be up to local communities, business and individuals to drive [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Government · Sustainability · Uncategorized

Climate change, politics, evidence and decision making

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

When I am really sick, I see a Doctor. Why? Because they are trained to assess the symptoms/data/evidence I present with. In essence I trust that they know what they are doing.
This trust is based on my understanding that through a unique and powerful combination of training, education and experience they are able to assess the data and from [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Government · Innovation theory · Sustainability · Uncategorized · environment · mature markets

Bringing Vital Technology to the Breast Reconstruction Market

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments

For the last 8 months we have been working with Neopec, a new company that is commercialising a revolutionary approach to breast reconstruction using technology developed at Melbourne, Australia’s Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery and the Australian Tissue Engineering Center.
Neopec will allow women who have been through the trauma of breast cancer and mastectomy to re-grow [...]

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Tags: Biotechnology · Government · Innovation theory

Funding Cleantech

August 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of the fundamental challenges facing any new energing technology is funding. It is the Rubicon for any startup business.
With any emergent technology, acceptance by investors follows your classic product lifecycle. Early adoptors, mainstream and laggards. The Cleantech industry finds itself in the early adopter (acceptor) stage just when th world needs it to be [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Financial services · Government · Sustainability · environment

More Hospital beds? But why?

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments

It would seem that the Australian Federal Government is still under intense pressure to follow the tired and hopeless old formula to solving the hospital bed crisis. The Australian Medical Association is pressuring the Government to “immediately spend at least $3 billion on 3,750 new public hospital beds and the staff and infrastructure to service [...]

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Tags: Government · healthcare · mature markets

A workable cure to the Healthcare Crisis

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For some time we have heard media, political opposition parties and lobby and community groups complain about the hospital bed crisis.
Put simply, there are not enough Hospital beds for those patients who need them.
However,  the solution that is often put forward - building new hospitals, commissioning new wards, creating new beds is not the answer.
In [...]

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Tags: Biotechnology · Government · Innovation theory · Telecommunications · Travel and Toursim · healthcare

Anthill pushes the point - ideas, invention & innovation (2)

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

In his recent blog Anthill editor James Tuckerman touches on a topic we whole heartedly agree with!
There is an urgent need to actually focus on understanding the customers need first and validate the bejesus out of that, before anyone spends any more on stuff that no one wants. What is needed is a total market [...]

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Tags: Government