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Student entrepreneur lands AMP grant for Chinese internships

21 Nov 2014

A startup founded by UNSW student Lily Wu that puts Australian students into Chinese internships has won an innovation grant from AMP’s Tomorrow Fund.

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Big ideas lauded at innovation awards

17 Oct 2014

A revolutionary rock sampling technology that achieved commercial success and a solar collector that can be used to heat or cool buildings are among the big winners in the 2014 UNSW Innovation Awards. 

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Smart Sparrow brings science to students with Gates Foundation funding

01 Oct 2014

An education technology start-up spun out of UNSW is one of the big winners in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $20 million Next-Generation Courseware Challenge.

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$50k up for grabs for UNSW student entrepreneurs

04 Aug 2014

A new partnership will unlock up to $50k in seed funding for UNSW-led technology startups.

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Next generation innovators launch their big ideas

17 Jun 2014

UNSW is the student start-up capital of Australia, with more than 200 start-ups currenty part of NewSouth Innovations' entrepreneurship scheme. A new video series, Young Entrepreneurs, showcases students and recent graduates pitching their big ideas.

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UNSW joins forces with Chinese industry powerhouses

13 Jun 2014

In what is being hailed by Chinese media as a “breakthrough” for collaboration with Chinese industry, UNSW has forged two separate deals focused on technology transfer and research commercialisation. 

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Connecting student innovators with industry

30 Oct 2013

Budding entrepreneurs have showcased their ideas to leading innovators and UNSW alumni at a networking event hosted by NewSouth Innovations.   

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Big ideas buried in innovation graveyard

28 Aug 2013

For Australia to become an idea launcher, it needs to institute a culture that makes big, bold bets on new discoveries to allow them to flourish, writes Ben McNeil. 

Unlocking IP for business

09 Nov 2011

In a first for Australia, UNSW will offer most of its intellectual property to companies for free, in a radical step to turn more university research into real-world applications.

Inventor of the Year

07 Sep 2010

Solar cell scientist Thorsten Trupke has won the 2010 UNSW Inventor of the Year Award for a world-first technology that is improving the competitiveness of the solar industry.

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