The University of New South Wales this month launched The New Wave, an initiative developed by UNSW Innovations, Capital W, and Women In Engineering looking to encourage more female students to take up entrepreneurship.
UNSW is aiming to introduce Chengdu, a leading ‘second tier’ Chinese city home to 14 million people, to the Australian innovation community.
Tot Tok, a Sydney-based company, is a child-centric platform that focuses on enabling parents and educators to provide children with inspiring and engaging learning experiences that fits with their individual needs.
Last week saw the official launch of the FounderLab and the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Fund, a product of a partnership between student organisation Arc and UNSW Innovations.
The International Space Station is one of humanity’s greatest engineering triumphs, yet Australia has never had a science experiment included in this incredible laboratory. As an aerospace engineering student and space entrepreneur, I find this sad and disconcerting. How could Australia, a technologically adept and prosperous nation, be stuck on the outside looking in?
Fifteen female UNSW students were given the opportunity to innovate the online fashion industry in an exciting collaboration between UNSW Innovations, Capital W and Women in Engineering. The case was presented by Australia’s leading fashion retailer THE ICONIC and students were asked to address the challenges revolving around fitting and the transition from the bricks and mortar stores to the online market.
Since moving onto campus to take a place in the UNSW Innovations coworking space, we’re close to other startup companies also working on the campus.
The billion dollar startup is such a powerful idea because it’s not a myth – it is a reality that dozens of companies have achieved.
A group of university students are busy validating their ideas and developing their technology platforms as they gear up to launch their new startups as part of UNSW Innovations’ Startup Launch program.
Have you ever tried to find parking in Sydney CBD, around a crowded train station or at the beach on a weekend? It’s a nightmare. At the same time, there are thousands of unused driveways, garages and commercial parking spaces that sit idle every day. Why not put the two together?
People always ask me what launching a tech startup while studying or working is like. It is definitely possible as long as you have a committed team with a united vision. One of the good things about doing this is that it gives you the time to test your assumptions and hypotheses.
The survey is being run by UNSW and funded by the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation & Science, who are interested in the policy implications regarding startups and and the organisations that support them. The emphasis is nominally on accelerators, but remains inclusive of organisations that provide co-working space, mentoring, seed capital, or structured workshops.
The University of New South Wales has been selected to host the local edition of the Hult Prize competition, with students asked to answer come up with solutions to a social challenge posed by President Bill Clinton. Held annually, the Hult Prize awards $1 million in funding to the team of students that develops the most radical and breakthrough idea to solve one of the world’s toughest social challenges. This year’s challenge is focused on ‘Crowded Urban Spaces’.
After witnessing the speed and scale of Asia’s technology and entrepreneurial evolution and realising how detached Australians were, Jason Lim and Mathew Benjamin pursued a conviction to change the situation by taking a delegation to Asia to see what’s happening for themselves. This program is called AsiaRecon.
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