Eric Tan

WA Business News 40under40 winner Steven Goh is one of 28 nominees chosen for the Entrepreneur of the Year (EoY) awards.

Dr Eric Tan AM, has been appointed the new Chancellor of Curtin University of Technology.Dr Tan founded the WA Endosurgical Society and was a Governor of the Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons of Asia Society.

DEVELOPING an innovation strategy will help foster and grow WA’s R&D capabilities, but just what should that strategy encompass?

Curtin University of Technology’s new chancellor Eric Tan signalled at his investiture last week that he would be no mere figurehead.There was a job to be done at Curtin, Dr Tan declared.

Western Australia’s five universities have always faced unique challenges.

THERE is only a handful of venture capital firms with a permanent on-the-ground presence in Perth.The largest and best known is Foundation Capital, which has $115 million under management across three funds.

HEALTHCARE equipment company Medical Corporation Australasia, through its 81.2 per cent subsidiary ObjectiVision, has signed a distribution agreement for the US and Canada with Heidelberg Engineering.

Medical Corporation Australasia has overhauled its board of directors. Dr Eric Tan (pictured) has stepped down as managing director but will remain as a non-executive director, while chief operating officer Dimitri Bacopanos has left the company.

Eric Tan has resigned as a non-executive director for Medical Corporation Australasia Limited.

Curtin University of Technology and Murdoch University have decided not to proceed with the proposed merger of the two institutions due to doubts about the impact of such a complex process.

Curtin University is facing big changes in 2006 after chancellor Eric Tan announced he would retire when his current term expires in March.

Curtin University of Technology has made two high profile appointments, with the recruitment of Gordon Martin as chancellor and Professor Linda Kristjanson as pro vice chancellor research and development.