Big country - Big ideas - Innovation

Big country - big ideas. From outback to city, Australian innovation produces world-class products and services. Our vast distances and varied landscapes have driven leading expertise and solutions in communications, transport, remote power systems, and more.

Wireless broadband: Australia's big spaces and concentrated population centres make great test beds for communications. ArrayComm's market development of iBurst wireless broadband took place in Australia - the world's first commercially­operating network.

Research collaboration: Online networks are common in Australia, with organisations such as CSIRO combining multidisciplinary teams from sites across the nation and around the globe. Itochu Corporation of Japan is just one company collaborating with CSIRO on research.

A nation of inventors and smart adapters of technology, Australia is constantly generating innovative solutions to problems. Long experienced at collaboration over distance, Australian research networks have developed leading technologies in ICT, biotechnology, nanotechnology and renewable energy.

Green power: Australia has developed unique renewable energy expertise, and leads the world in solar technologies, 'clean coal' research, geothermal power generation from hot dry rock, and more. >>more