HYDROGEN Technology is on the verge of commercialising its metal cutting and joining machine and will go to the market in the coming months to raise capital for a global product roll out.
LOCAL mobile phone supplier B Digital is embarking on an aggressive product expansion, including new Internet and home phone services, that is aimed at making it a full service telco.
INDUSTRY groups have launched an advertising first for the North-West town of Broome aimed at developing a more cohesive brand identity for the popular tourist destination.
THE participants in the WA Business News innovation forum agree that Western Australia’s universities need to drive commercial outcomes from their basic research.
A LACK of managerial and business skill has been identified as one of the major problems facing innovators who want to commercialise their research breakthrough.
MEETING with a group of venture capitalists is a great way to learn about some of the exciting and innovative businesses emerging from Western Australia.
PERTH-BASED company FreeCargo has crafted software developed by academics at the University of Amsterdam into an online freight ordering system that provides real benefits to its users and revenue to the company.
DIGITAL content management systems developed by Bentley-based DCN (formerly Data-Cast.Net) have caught the attention of global airline industry heavyweight Water-mark.
STRUCTURAL Monitoring Systems provides a classic example of a backyard inventor devising a breakthrough technology that is now being marketed around the world.
PARTICIPANTS in the WA Business News innovation forum nominated nanotechnology and aquaculture as two sectors with enormous potential for Western Australia.
COLLTECH Australia Limited will close its $4.5 million IPO this Friday, January 23, and, if all goes to plan, will produce collagen from sheep by the end of the year.
A recent trip to the US provided Perth chef Mark Taylor with a new business that may be the food industry’s most significant outsourcing development, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
A NEW bar has opened in Mount Lawley. ENV Bar and Tapas, at 677 Beaufort Street, replaces Italian restaurant Piazza Bar and Restaurant and is just up the street from the Astor Cinemas.
THE founders of Gage Roads Brewing Co expect to produce their first batch of beer by September this year following the recent completion of a $2.5 million capital raising.Gage Roads Brewing Co directo
SEVERAL WA-owned and operated retailers have reported sluggish Christmas retailing figures despite claims by retailing associations of sales growth for the period of up to 7.1 per cent.
THE Western Australian Government’s current $90,000 “nuisance tax abolishment” advertising campaign is nothing more than stating the Government’s compliance to the intergovernmental agreement signed in 1999 according to business groups.
AFTER record crop harvests WA’s farmers are confidently driving capital into off-farm investments that are contributing to a surge in rural property prices according to analysts.
