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Startup

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Increase your luck with a cup of coffee and a 5 minute favour
When you?make a face to face arrangement, challenge your guest??to come along?with a request, like a five minute?favour that you can do for them.? By presenting this challenge you will deepen the personal connection, "If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won?t succeed. We can?t pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.??Adam Grant.?http://www.balkincoaching.com.au/single-post/2019/04/17/Can-You-Increase-Your-Luck-With-A-Cup-Of-Coffee-And-A-Five-Minute-Favour
6 May 2019 by tamar-balkin

AgTech

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Using Instagram to make farming more profitable
It only took one photo on a farm that was posted on Instagram, for the sunflowers they grow to become a social media hit. The owners have since had tourists from Japan, China and Brazil make the trip out to the property, and particularly from Singapore. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-04/insta-farming-has-businesses-booming-at-sunflower-farm/11049998
4 May 2019 by IdeaSpies

Healthcare

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Saving lives using our smartphones
Each year around 54,000 Australians experience a heart attack. About 60 per cent survive and are recommended to complete cardiac rehabilitation (CR) to reduce the risk of a second heart attack. Cardihab provides convenient CR from wherever you are, using an evidence based, clinically validated smartphone app that shares patient information with a secure clinician web portal. Cardihab has been supported by the ON Accelerate program at CSIRO. http://www.oninnovation.com.au/en/ON-teams/ON-Tribe/Accelerate1/Cardihab
4 May 2019 by Rishad

AgTech

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Improving sustainability within the egg industry
Adaptive Eggs identifies "male eggs" when they are laid avoiding the costly and undesirable culling practices in the egg laying industry. The incentive to adopt Adaptive Eggs breakthrough technology comes from the simultaneous elimination of economic losses associated with the incubation, hatch and cull of day old male layer birds and the potential conversion of this waste stream into novel value-added bio-products. Adaptive Eggs has been supported by the ON Accelerate program at CSIRO. http://www.oninnovation.com.au/en/ON-teams/ON-Accelerate5-Teams/Adaptive-Eggs
4 May 2019 by Rishad

Healthcare

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Identifying counterfeit drugs
RxAll, a Nigerian startup, has developed a portable drug authenticator that determines the authenticity of medications. It is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the counterfeit drug market which is a multibillion-dollar industry that puts lives at risk. RxAll allows anyone to test the quality of a drug by using a portable nanoscanner and mobile app.?The proprietary machine learning algorithm reads the scan from the scanner, identifies the drug, assesses its quality and lets the user know whether the drug is real or counterfeit, in about 20 seconds. www.rxall.net
4 May 2019 by IdeaSpies

AgTech

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Maximising agriculture productivity
Bee Innovative is an Australian agrifood tech company that is using artificial intelligence to track bees to boost crop yields and
4 May 2019 by Rishad