Good Starts explores how science is translated into new technology and products. On this episode host David Burt talks to Vicky Staikopoulos, the founder of Woven Optics, a company helping farmers increase their revenue from wool. Vicky’s journ

From bootstrapping to team building: growing a startup with Dr James Palmer and Simon Palumbo

Oct 16th, 2019 57m 47s

Dr James Palmer and Simon Palumbo are co-founders of Silentium Defence Pty Ltd, a fast-growing, South Australian SME providing unique passive radar technology to Defence and civilian customers. James and Simon founded the company in 2017 when t

Becoming a better leader with David Romano

Oct 2nd, 2019 33m 16s

On this episode of Good Starts David Burt talks to David Romano, an internationally recognised expert on leadership. Over the last three years, David has been helping technical founders bring together high performing teams to start and grow new

Taking people with you on your journey to commercialisation with Dr Melony Sellars

Sep 18th, 2019 41m 8s

Dr Melony Sellars is the co-founder and CEO of Genics, a start-up securing global food production through smart pathogen detection and breeding selection. Dr Sellars is a global shrimp expert by training, leading a team working on developing an

From scientist to CEO with Dr Nancy Schellhorn

Sep 5th, 2019 39m 48s

David talks with RapidAIM co-founder and co-inventor Dr Nancy Schellhorn, on her journey from CSIRO scientist to CEO with $1.25million of funding.They discuss the impact on Australian farmers that RapidAIM has had in a very short time, minimis

Taking science commercialisation into your own hands with Stephen Trowell

Aug 29th, 2019 56m 9s

On this episode of Good Starts, David talks to Stephen Trowell, Founder and Managing Director of PPB Technology, about how his passion for seeing science through to impact took him from field to founder.The research behind the Parts Per Billio

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