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Building Bridges in Biotech: How Life Science Incubator is Accelerating Innovation in Asia-Pacific

Life Science Incubator (LSI) isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel — it’s simply making it roll faster. By creating accessible, scalable lab infrastructure and embedding it within a supportive community, LSI is helping to fast-track the next generation of biotech and medtech solutions, from idea to impact. As the Asia-Pacific region doubles down on innovation,…

15 Jul 2025, by Informa Insights

Transport & Logistics

A mature approach to understanding systemic rail risk

In rail, the impacts of systemic risks can be disproportionate to their triggering events. With intersections across transport, power, and cyber systems, even minor setbacks to the network can be felt across operational and geographical boundaries. The result can be service disruptions, safety incidents, and economic losses – sometimes with legal or regulatory consequences. Magnus…

15 Jul 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Transport & Logistics

Inside Transport NSW’s crisis and emergency management approach

With $16.2 billion worth of infrastructure, 3036 major projects, and a freight task consisting of 891,000 annual trips, Transport NSW knows the stakes of its crisis and emergency management are high. If handled inappropriately, even minor setbacks could incur the agency – and broader community - significant costs, with each hour of operational downtime costing…

15 Jul 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Healthcare

Surgery Connect program to hit major milestone

By the end of this financial year, The Queensland Government will have expedited the care of more than 30, 000 public patients, to stabilise the statewide elective surgery waiting list, thanks to a $1.75 billion investment, which includes the Surgery Connect program. Established in 2008, Surgery Connect leverages relationships with 58 private providers, who deliver…

4 Jul 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Technology | Transport & Logistics

E-fuel – a game-changer for rail decarbonisation?

E-fuels have long been helping Europe decarbonise its rail network - and with Nordic Electrofuel recently signing an MoU for an e-fuel production plant in Saudi Arabia, Australia could soon follow in its tracks. The plant, due to be built in 2030, is one of several Nordic Electrofuel is developing in the region, with a…

1 Jul 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Business | Healthcare

Could R&D financing keep biotech’s wheels in motion amid geopolitical uncertainty?

Australia’s biotechnology industry is facing an uncertain period, amid sweeping changes to US healthcare policy, which have already seen investors take a more cautious approach to biotech financing. With the US representing biotech’s largest market, companies who use conventional capital raising methods, are seeing more closed doors in their bid to fund clinical trials, or…

27 Jun 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Healthcare | Legal

Overcoming birth trauma, post inquiry – what needs to happen?

In 2024, a landmark parliamentary inquiry found ‘unacceptable’ rates of birth trauma in Australia, with one in three women directly affected. One year on, how much progress has the sector made; and what more needs to be done, to further drive down these figures? Ahead of the Obstetric Medico Legal Conference, we spoke with Professor…

24 Jun 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Business | Technology

Boosting the representation of women in senior Biotech roles

In Australia’s biotechnology industry, women make up half of the entry-level workforce, but only 20 percent of leadership positions – an issue that has come under scrutiny in recent years. Aside from the ethical implications, under-representing women at senior and board level can impact business outcomes. According to a McKinsey report, companies in the top…

17 Jun 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Energy & Utilities

Why being curious is the best way to engage communities

The clean energy transition is often viewed as a technical and commercial challenge, but – if recent statistics are anything to go by - social factors can carry equal weight in the equation. Between 2019-2023, it is estimated that 23 percent of project failures were the product of poor stakeholder management; and, for projects that…

16 Jun 2025, by Amy Sarcevic

Transport & Logistics

How have 50c fares impacted public transport usage in QLD?

When Queensland introduced 50 cent public transport fares in August 2024, it did so with the goal of growing patronage amid cost-of-living pressures – but the new fares surprised with a range of other unexpected outcomes. Deputy Director-General of the Department of Transport and Main Roads, Dr Deborah Hume, says public sentiment towards 50 cent…

9 Jun 2025, by Amy Sarcevic
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