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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.

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.

Communications company Vodafone has emerged as one of the major winners from the Western Australian Government's new Mobile Telecommunications Contract.

I struggle to come to terms with the way political parties deal with the election process and I am not looking forward to the next few weeks.

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

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

THAT simple ideas can take significant amounts of money, time and research effort to bring to market readiness is not news to the team at Intierra.

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

TWO decades ago the staff at emerging technology company Poseidon Scientific Instruments were tinkering away on radio technology for cray fisherman.

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

AN independent panel has been formed to assess the economic and social impacts of the State Government's wetlands policy before it goes to parliament.

PERTH property industry pundits are expecting a steady year for the residential property market in 2005 and a consolidation of last year's market posit

IT was once said in New York that when the bell hops start giving share tips it's time to sell.

TIM Treadgold is correct when he states that Xstrata's primary corporate goal is to improve shareholder returns (WA Business News, December 9 2004).

Everyone seeks to be and be known as authentic. Very few are.

YOUR correspondent Tim Treadgold has put forward some interesting hypotheses to explain the delay in getting AEC's prospectus over the line (Briefcase,

A DECADE in the hospitality business is good going by any measure, so former hotel broker Renzo Deleo must be doing something right.

JUST as the Federal Labor party rues its attempt to innovate with its leadership during the past year, we mustn't lose sight of the need to experiment from time to time. Innovation is the key to survival and there must always be room to try new ways of t

THE old Mamma Maria's restaurant on the corner of Lake and Aberdeen streets in Northbridge will reopen as Hunter's Piano Bar in the coming months.

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.

THE Ullinger family will continue to operate Redgate Wines while founder Bill Ullinger recovers from a serious stroke he suffered about eight weeks ag

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.

WITH a State election imminent letterboxes will be increasingly stuffed with more unwelcome advertising bumph from parties to convince voters they and their candidates are working for their electorates.

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.

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

PERTH was home to Australia's largest private equity transaction of 2004 when heavy equipment supplier Emeco International was sold to GS Private Equity and Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for a price believed to be about $450 million.

BUOYED by Western Australia's thriving economy, the commercial property market performed better than expected in 2004.

WESTFIELD'S purchase of a half-share in Whitford City Shopping Centre for $192.5 million ranks as the largest property sale in Western Australia for 2004.

THAT there's no shortage of things to do in the Margaret River region is news to no-one. What seems to be in short supply, however, is parking spots for the punters, and staff for the businesses they are visiting.

WARREN Mead is going ahead with plans for his latest restaurant, this one to be located at the ground floor of Exchange Plaza on St Georges Terrace.

MARGARET River's newest boutique brewery, Colonial Brewing Co, has travelled a steep learning curve in recent months.

IAN Mayo has joined Plantagenet Wines as general manager.