A newly launched Digital Health Accelerator Program is hoping to capitalise on the talented tech, IT, business and medical scene in Western Australia to propel locally founded digital health businesses onto the world stage and successfully solve unmet needs for patients. Led by the Telethon Kids Institute and made possible with an X-TEND WA grant…
Read MoreThe 2019 Perth Biodesign course kicks off tonight with the first Wednesday class session being generously hosted by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation (CERI). In 2018, the Perth Biodesign team received over 140 expressions of interest for only 25 places in the course. We are delighted to announce that, due to this overwhelming demand…
Read MoreParticipants and teams for Perth Biodesign 2019 have been finalised and the course has officially kicked off with an introductory bootcamp over the weekend! Keep an eye on Accelerating Australia social media and the Perth Biodesign website for the 2019 Meet the Teams blog coming soon. In the meantime, we are very excited to introduce…
Read MoreThis article first appeared on Create Digital. You can read the full interview here. A multi-disciplinary program is supercharging engineers, transforming them into entrepreneurs. Can innovation be taught? Dr Matt Oldakowski, an entrepreneur, researcher at Curtin University and co-director of Perth Biodesign, runs an intensive six-month program that teams engineers with researchers, business professionals and…
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