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Symbio Expands into Impressive New Building
On 2 July 2010 Graystone issued practical completion on Symbio Alliance's new home at Brisbane Technology Park.
From humble beginnings, operating out of 400m2 laboratory in East Brisbane, Symbio now occupies two adjacent premises with a total area of 5,100m2.
Symbio's new 7.2M facility will house one of the largest agrifood testing laboratories in Queensland. The old premises will be used to increase the scope of educational services that Symbio provide as a Registered Training Organisation.
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Spiderbox back with another spin
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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Brisbane enabling Innovation
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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Smart strategy to make Queensland a global ideas magnet
When hearing about the Queensland Government’s new ‘Smart Communities’ concept and strategy, one is reminded of an interview Stephen Fry conducted with Apple’s Jonathan Ive.
Fry commented that arguably the two most influential Britons of the last 20 years were Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web, and Ive, who gave us the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, yet both chose to live and work in America.
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Anteo Diagnostics trials take Australian technology global
Brisbane Technology Park (BTP) tenant Anteo Diagnostics is trialling its trademarked Mix&Go technology with 25 companies in Japan, Northern Europe and the USA following a lengthy engagement process with the world’s leading pathology and bead businesses.
The ASX listed company expects to grow by 50% in the next year, becoming cash flow positive, and will take on six more research and development employees to handle the work being done for potential clients.
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Host Networks to boost state of the art data offering on BTP
Host Networks will establish itself as a ‘tier three’ data centre on Brisbane Technology Park (BTP) and launch a new cloud hosting business by the end of 2010.
The strategic move to BTP in 2007 saw the company open its multi-million dollar, carrier neutral data centre, expanding its existing network between Brisbane and Sydney with backing from financial services provider Boston One.
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Innovation lunch guests share insights into eco-solutions
Guests at the last Innovation Series, which kicked off Brisbane’s Enable2010 innovation festival in July, were given an insight into the motivations, complexity and variety of organisations and individuals involved in turning an idea into a commercial product.
The event – 'Eco-innovations: Sustaining industry and the environment' – touched on possibly the biggest question facing us; how do we continue to grow both in terms of population and economies, without destroying the planet. The responses were varied and illuminating.
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New business model is the future of science and technology parks
The $13.5m high tech, eco building for 20 tenants opening at 88 Brandl Street, Brisbane Technology Park in early 2011 will be Australia’s first example of a new business model and part of a global network of science and technology parks.
Zernike Precincts is a new venture that brings together real estate and commercialisation expertise to build business communities around research and knowledge hubs - such as universities or hospitals - and nurtures them by offering business and investment support.
The global Zernike Group manages six science parks in Europe and Australia, including Brisbane Technology Park, works with 31 finance partners and 90 academic institutes around the world, and administers five investment funds.
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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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