A city-wide search for Brisbane's most inspiring businesses and business leaders is on again with the 2010 Lord Mayor's Business Awards open for nominations.
Now in its fifth consecutive year, the Lord Mayor's Business Awards encompass Brisbane's most prestigious business accolades and celebrate excellence in business. The awards centre on the energy, drive and passion behind local businesses in any commercial or industrial sector and their importance to the growth of Brisbane's economy. The program is sponsored by Laing O'Rourke and is open to businesses operating within the Local Government Area of the City of Brisbane.The award category winners, as well as the overall Optus Platinum Award winner will be announced and celebrated at the Lord Mayor's Business Awards Gala Dinner held on Friday 15 October at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Nominations are easy. To nominate yourself or other inspirational businesses or individuals, or to view past winners and finalists, visit: www.lmba.com.au. Nominations close on Friday 16 July.
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FACED with a tangled beginning, national business-to business telco Spiderbox is weaving a place in the local market. Designer John Miland and entrepreneur John Hundy started the company to build a box that could carry data for telephony, television and the internet into a building using one cable to service multiple tenants.
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Enable2010 will showcase Brisbane, Australia’s new world city, as a centre of world-class innovation. Brisbane is quickly emerging as a leading global force in mining, energy, clean technology, digital industries, biotechnology, innovative manufacturing and infrastructure development.
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EXPANDING technology diffusion agency QMI Solutions has moved into new premises in Brisbane's Technology Park.
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Enable2010 is a bold new initiative to showcase Brisbane as a centre of world-class innovation and collaboration, with a range of events planned from July 19 to 28.
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The caretakers of Brisbane Technology Park, Dutch-owned Zernike Precincts, plan to expand the facility in a $13.5 million upgrade, and has ambitions to roll out more technology precincts around the nation.
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Dr Peter Farrell Talks Risks, Opportunities and Growth.
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Clean Energy Gets $20 Million Boost.
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Brisbane taking health check on its economic condition.
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Promoting Brisbane’s growth as a global ‘mining hub’.
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Brisbane’s Economic Annual – the ultimate resource for business, government and academia
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Open Cut Queensland turns to Open Source: New Icons for a New Age
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Two Queensland companies are heading to Japan tomorrow for the world’s largest nanotechnology exhibition and conference held annually in Tokyo.
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Applications are being sought nationwide from businesses and individuals who have designed new products with the potential to become the 'next big thing'.
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As an investor, owner and manager at Brisbane Technology Park, Zernike Australia has made another significant commitment by signing up as the first tenant of the precinct’s planned $14 million new office complex The Dutch company, which manages science and technology parks around the world, plans to use the space to nurture innovative small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and expand its own operations.
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COOK Medical, the largest private medical device company in the world, recently opened a new $21 million headquarters in Brisbane, creating new jobs locally and expanding its ability to deliver innovative minimally invasive medical procedure technology to the global market.
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Brisbane Technology Park were delighted to host a visit by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr John Banks and a leading New Zealand business delegation who were in Brisbane during 1-3 April as part of the reciprocal visit for the 20th anniversary sister city celebration.
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The Mater Private Hospital's Occupational Therapy Adult Perceptual Screening Test is now used in more than 90 Australian hospitals and community health centres, as well as overseas.
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Over the holidays, Spiderbox was busy installing fibre optic cable throughout the park. The network goes live in February and runs from the Host Networks data centre in Brandl St. up Mc Kechnie drive past the Interactive data centre, to the BTP Conference Centre and surrounding buildings.
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Brisbane Technology Park’s Corporate Partner, Invest Brisbane has collaborated with Longhaus, one of Australia's leading boutique ICT research and advisory companies to bring together a panel of leading ICT thinkers on the March 11, 2009 as they undertake round two of the Brisbane ICT Hypothetical series.
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Two Queensland companies are heading to Japan tomorrow for the world’s largest nanotechnology exhibition and conference held annually in Tokyo.
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Global healthcare company Johnson and Johnson will relocate 5 of their divisions to Brisbane Technology Park in early 2009.
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Small-to-Medium Manufacturing and Mining
Sponsored by Rio Tinto Alcan
Winner: Innotech Control Systems Australia & Innotech Guardian Safety Systems
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Medihoney was unveiled by Lord Mayor Campbell Newman as the most outstanding company contributing to the growth of the City’s economy over the past year.
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Queensland Health’s Southside Division of Community and Primary Health are conducting some critical research and clinical trials into Palliative Care and Indigenous Health Care in urban areas from their new location at Brisbane Technology Park.
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As it reaches its three-year anniversary at Brisbane Technology Park, Ironbark Software is expanding its offices at 85 Brandl Street to cater for continuing rapid growth.Ironbark have been residents of the park since December 2005 employing over 25 full time staff.
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The Brisbane-based high technology branch of UK based Filtronic Defence Ltd is developing innovative MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) radar solutions at Brisbane Technology Park.
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Trolltech, a software company specialising in applications for mobile phones, whose Australian headquarters at Brisbane Technology Park, has been acquired by mobile phone giant, Nokia.
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Trolltech, a software company specialising in applications for mobile phones, whose Australian headquarters at Brisbane Technology Park, has been acquired by mobile phone giant, Nokia.
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Heading an ICT company presently exporting to 15 countries around the world with the majority of sales in the US market, Wayne Patterson oversees the production of innovative technology for control and monitoring of water pumping solutions, delivering solutions to water and wastewater municipals and councils around the world.
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Competition across Asia, Europe and America has encouraged the development of a unique mobile phone system standardised all over the world, but the market will soon face problems due to the co-existence of multi-standardised communication systems until the deployment of a unique standard.
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It is with great pleasure we announce that the Guardian Safety System was a winner of a Prestigious Design Award in the Business and Technology Category at the 2008 Australian International Design Awards.
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Moonwalk Inc., the Australian developer of all-inclusive data management and protection software, had its enterprise data management software named as the “Storage Management Product of the Year” at the Techworld Awards 2008 ceremony June 11, beating five other finalists vying for the top honor.
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Industry is set to benefit from involvement with Manufacturing Skills Queensland (MSQ) to take an active role in advancing skills development.
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Citiwater a business unit of Townsville City Council that provides water and wastewater services to over 160,000 people in the Townsville Community, in partnership with software company Mobile Technologies have successfully implemented an automated workforce management solution.
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The Malaysian Government has targeted the Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC) as its role model in commercialisation and innovation best practice.
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Finding qualified and talented students and recent graduates to fill employment vacancies has just become easier thanks to e2e.NET, ‘the education to employment network’ developed by Graduate Programs Australia.
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Whilst only having been open for a little over two months, already the MBE Business Service Centre is helping make business easier for many of the companies and organizations based a Brisbane Technology Park.
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Premier Anna Bligh today launched the next multi-million dollar phase of Queensland's successful Smart State strategy.
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A University of Queensland expert who pioneered research linking climate change projections with coral reef distress is the Smart State Premier's Fellow for 2008, Premier Anna Bligh announced today.
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A NEW state-of-the-art office building was opened last week at the rapidly growing Brisbane Technology Park at Eight Mile Plains.
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Small high tech firms now have a foot in the door at one of Queensland's most innovative business hubs with the opening of a new office precinct at Brisbane Technology Park last week.
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CEED Program (Qld) links university students with industry/government, for completion of projects.
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Securing the best and brightest people to grow your company can be a tricky and very expensive business if the approach is not planned, coordinated and then managed, according to Graduate Programs CEO Brandon Thompson.
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Westinghouse Rail Systems Australia, part of the worldwide Invensys Rail Systems organisation is committed to delivering successful solutions; on time, every time. The organisation brings new ideas and new technology to Australia and South East Asia with the region’s largest rail R&D and manufacturing facilities.
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The Sarina Russo Group needed to connect a newly leased office space (in a remote building) to their company’s high-speed corporate LAN within the Brisbane CBD. Sarina Russo Group did not want to duplicate its telephone and data systems. Instead they wanted to centralise these services at the existing branch office, there-by reducing their ongoing costs.
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BTP Exchange Newsletter Aug 2009
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Symbio Alliance has recently purchased Lot 6 in Brisbane Technology Park to build and operate a new laboratory facility in addition to their current premise at 44 Brandl Street. Since entering the Park in 2005, Symbio has achieved substantial growth resulting in the need for increased capacity both for existing clients andplanned expansion.
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CBio Limited, an Australian-based drug development company, today announced the successful completion of a A$10 million capital raising ahead of a planned share market listing later in 2009. The capital raising was underwritten to A$6 million by financial services house Novus Capital Limited which acted as Financial Advisor and Underwriter and will be advising CBio in the IPO process.
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After several years of uncertainty surrounding the outlook for commercialisation of new ideas and research in Australia, the future of commercialisation has recovered strongly and is again showing its potential to play a valuable role in national economic development. In the past year, both the University of Queensland and CSIRO have each recognised incoming royalty payments exceeding $100M, for their successful licensing of the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil and IEEE 802.11 wireless networking technologies respectively. Both revenue streams are “home runs” for the institutions, and will be used to help fund new research and development that will further strengthen the national interest and support the development of Australia’s
scientific endeavours.
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Brisbane engineering services company Ausenco Limited continues to net contacts in South America, recently announcing an $8 million construction management deal with Minera Esperanza in Chile.
Ausenco CEO Zimi Meka, says the contract follows previous work on the US $1.9 billion Esperanza copper project in the region of Antofagasta. Other contracts are expected in the coming months.
"They are repeat clients we've been working with in excess of five years and on this particular project we've worked on the feasibility project through to engineering services and now construction management, " says Meka.
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Leading Brisbane investment and development company Graystone has confirmed its purchase of three development sites at Brisbane Technology Park in Eight Mile Plains in partnership with a group of private investors and owner/occupiers including Multitrode.
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The AIC is a valued provider of commercialisation and innovation services to the Australian Government Clean Energy Innovation Centre, an initiative of Enterprise Connect. As part of its initiative to help build new value chains that will underpin the growth of the clean energy industry in Australia, the AIC hosted a national R&D Forum in Melbourne earlier this month on the topic of energy storage solutions for grid operators. The Forum was coordinated by the AIC with assistance from Newcastle Innovation and WASEA.
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Spiderbox’s location on Brisbane Technology Park gave the innovative start-up access to the partnerships it needed to become a Telco, build its own national network and launch a new business model. The company, which started life as a developer and vendor of a ‘Spiderbox’, a device to carry data for telephony, TV and internet, moved onto the Park in 2001 as part of the Government’s Smart State initiative.
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One of the world’s fastest growing companies has moved into Brisbane Technology Park, recruited 12 local employees and won 200 Brisbane-based clients in its first six weeks. ReachLocal, which is Google’s largest reseller globally and was ranked number one on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 2009 in the USA, has taken four offices in Brisbane Technology Park’s BTP Technology & Conference Centre.
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Queensland business leaders were treated to a sneak peak into the increasingly green future of property development at Brisbane’s first Innovation Series lunch for 2010 in April.
‘Sustainable Development and Innovation – Our World Our Future’ was attended by 170 guests.
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A move to Brisbane Technology Park helped MPS Australia establish a training partner as they joined forces with their neighbour Symbio Alliance to meet their specialist training needs.
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Brisbane Marketing in collaboration with Deloitte, UQ Business School, Brisbane City Council and Queensland Government, presents the inaugural Brisbane Innovation Scorecard.
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