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A few notes from my presentation to The University of Newcastle Research Leaders Forum @Uni_Newcastle @uon_i2n @siobhan_curran

IMO there has never been a better time in living memory to launch a startup as a researcher The Federal Government is throwing massive support behind building new companies & industries

The Australian Economic Accelerator is planning to fund up to 96 $500k grants & 36 $5m grants pa to help researchers commercialise their research

Have been thinking about Semiconductors & how to get an industry going here in AU

Before everyone laughs, we should consider this

Semiconductors are a +$USD 480 billion pa business growing at 9-10% pa

They are the new oil

Interestingly China imports more chips than oil To put this in perspective AU exports in USD
Iron Ore $45b
Coal $56b