Special Reports

FRANK EDWARDS City of Perth chief executive officer

EUGENIE HARRIS  Department of Education  and Training  senior public relations consultant

After four years of nearly full-time volunteer work for a not-for-profit organisation, and driven by the desire to be in a position to contribute to aid and education on an intern

Maryanne Kelly has beaten the odds to rise to the position of operations manager, Pannawonica, for iron ore miner and Rio Tinto subsidiary Robe River.

As business manager of the Salinity Cooperative Research Centre, Mark Stickells has been deeply involved in the development of profitable farming options aimed at combating salini

GARY STOKES  Department of Industry and Resources  deputy director general, business and trade services

Michael Kiernan has a simple vision of where he wants to take Consolidated Minerals before he retires.

Eight years ago, former trucking and mining contractor Michael Kiernan found himself about $2.5 million out of pocket when manganese miner Valiant Consolidated collapsed.

West Perth mining companies are usually run by one of two types – the accountants who never get their hands dirty and the operators who’ve seen it all first hand.

The number of small business lobby groups in Western Australia has ballooned over the past year, and while all cover similar issues they represent different parts of the small business community.

In a rare moment of candour after last year’s Federal election, former Labor leader Mark Latham acknowledged that his party’s policies had failed to keep pace with changing society.

Tax is the number one State government issue for small businesses in Western Australia, a survey by the Combined Small Business Alliance has found.

WA Retail & Small Business Association, CEO Brett Dunstone

The latest statistical snapshot of the small business sector has highlighted the emergence over the past decade of home-based businesses, which account for 72 per cent of the 139,500 small businesses in Western Australia.

A home-operated business started in May 2003 by Jenny Spring so she could spend more time raising her children has become a global operation with forward estimate earnings of $4 million.

Information management consultant Chris Gentle illustrates the modern face of small business.

DIRECTORS

It takes a perspective from outside the square to find comparisons between raising children and running a company, but that’s how one of Western Austra

Networking and becoming a known commodity is one of the key elements to success in business, according to Heather Zampatti.

Learning to adapt to changing circumstances is a key component in long-term professional survival, according to former teacher, lawyer, barrister, and

While women remain a minority in senior management and around boardroom tables, Western Australia has produced several leaders in their fields. Marsha Jacobs talks to some of this State’s top performers.

Penny Flett has the passion and enthusiasm for her work more often associated with a recent graduate than a 20-year veteran in the field.

Some of last year’s WA Business News 40under40 winners share their thoughts on being young women in business. 

A LACK of research and development funding is the principal reason Western Australia is falling behind the R&D powerhouses of New South Wales and Q

THE University of Queensland made nearly four times more money from licence income in 2002 than the next best performing university and had more than $40 million equity in 34 spin-out companies.

FARMING electronics developer and electronic display sign manufacturer Computronics is a significant investor in research and development in Western Au

Developing research into a marketable product or service can be complex but the returns are great if all the right systems are in place as Julie-anne Sprague and David Gibson report.

IT was the expertise of two Edith Cowan University researchers that prompted PanoramaFLAT to make Perth a major base for a planned global roll-out of i

ISA Technologies, the company that invested $5 million in a supercomputer in 2003, is providing access to that infrastructure, free of charge, to what

A LACK of pre-seed funding is the most common complaint from those involved with the State’s innovation sector.

PROVIDING a big pool of in-house pre-seed funding is not the only path to commercialisation, according to The University of Western Australia Office of Industry and Innovation director, Andy Sierakowski.