Zernike expanding facilities at BTP

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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Local medical device pioneer expands global service offering

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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Lord Mayor Business Awards 2009

Celebrating its fourth successful year as Brisbane’s most prestigious awards program, the Lord Mayor’s Business Awards recognizes excellence and rewards exceptional contributions to the growth of our economy.
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Small Business and General Business Tax Break

Small Business and General Business Tax Break
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Commonwealth Commercialisation Institute

Tuesday's Federal Budget contained the announcement of a historic 25% increase in Australian government spending on innovation and science to $8.6 billion. Within that, $196.1 million has been earmarked over the next four years to establish the new Commonwealth Commercialisation Institute, with ongoing funding of $82 million per year after that.
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Clean Energy Gets $20 Million Boost

The Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC)and Zernike Australia are excited to be key participants in the centre, together with Newcastle Innovation and the Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association.
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MPS to call Brisbane Technology Park home

Since the mid 1990’s, MPS has been one of the largest suppliers to Residential Aged Care Facilities in Queensland.
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All aboard with Westinghouse Rail

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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CBio completes A$10 million capital raising

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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Commercialisation Set To Boom

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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Graystone spends $3.67 million at auction and continues to grow in Brisbane Technology Park

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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Introduction of route 299 (Brisbane City to Rochedale via Brisbane Technology Park)

From Monday 12 April a new route will run through Brisbane Technology Park providing a journey opposite the flow of traffic in peak times. This weekday service will run three outbound services from Brisbane City in the morning peak, and three inbound services in the afternoon peak. It will service the following destinations: • Griffith University, Nathan Campus • QEII Hospital (Troughton Road) • McKechnie Drive, Brisbane Technology Park • Rochdale High School, Rochedale • Redeemer Lutheran College, Rochedale. This service may be of interest to businesses in the Brisbane Technology Park and I would welcome any assistance you could provide to promote this new service to the Brisbane Technology Park community. The new timetable is now available on the TransLink website. Please contact me on 3167 4315 or nicole.randall@translink.com.au if you would like hard copy timetables or further information on this new service.
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