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Queensland-based Valiant Space has successfully test-fired the first commercially developed liquid-fuelled rocket engine in Australian history from a launch site north of Goondiwindi, Queensland.

The University of Queensland’s new Entrepreneur in Residence Sam Jockel, CEO and Founder at ParentTV, has joined the accelerator program, ilab, to mentor students launching their own startups.

Samira Tollo might be only 23 years old, but the cryptocurrency marketplace company she co-founded is celebrating its second round of capital investment with a new, experienced board of directors.

University of Queensland alumnus Dr Nigel Greenwood has been globally recognised for building the world’s first genuinely machine-intelligent artificial pancreas.

The University of Queensland has appointed Dr Jessica Gallagher as UQ’s inaugural Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement & Entrepreneurship).

Thinking of an entrepreneurial career in the ever-growing startup world? Follow the advice of a young UQ graduate, who is creating positive change through her sustainable venture idea.

Notorious for their poor diets, university students sometimes eat two-minute noodle meals as they seek to save time and money.

Thermal infrared counting technology developed by a University of Queensland entrepreneur is now being used in the University’s makerspace facility to monitor foot traffic.

The University of Queensland’s 2020 ilab Accelerator program has awarded $20,000 each to aspiring startups to help them launch.

The University of Queensland’s 2020 ilab Accelerator program has awarded $20,000 each to 10 aspiring startups to help them launch.

Entrepreneurship and innovation are not new to UQ. As a global top 50 university and a leading teaching and research institution, UQ has a long history of creating and applying knowledge, and we continue to evolve.

Australia peer-to-peer mentoring startup, Vygo, has announced it will commit AUD$100,000 towards a new platform to train student mentors in a bid to help Australian universities ensure their international and domestic students succeed.

University of Queensland PhD candidate Rhys Pirie is the first Australian to win Young Innovator of the Year at the world’s premier conference for research and innovation, Falling Walls Berlin.

In a bid to transform the legal profession, four University of Queensland students have taken home $10,000 after winning the KWM Transform Law prize.

Nearly $2.1 million in funding will go towards helping more than 500 University of Queensland undergraduate students study overseas and realise their ambitions.

Brisbane Tool Library founder, Sabrina Chakori, will travel to Ethiopia this month to attend the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) 2019 on a newly formed SWEF 2019 Bursary Fund. The social entrepreneur and current PhD student at The University of Queensland is one of 18 envoys representing the diversity of the social enterprise sector in Australia at the Forum.   

Inspiring tomorrow’s innovators, University of Queensland alumni Fiona and Michael Holmstrom run STEMPunks – a Brisbane-based company providing world-leading STEM education programs for students and teachers in primary and secondary schools with learning outcomes linked to the Australian Curriculum.

The horror of witnessing a child begging for food in Laos turned Nina Sackprasith into a social entrepreneur. Now, The University of Queensland (UQ) graduate supports girls in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, to get an education.

A startup designed to make composting easier and more efficient has taken out top prize at The University of Queensland’s Accelerator Pitch Night.

An app that supports grassroots sports through effective connection to sponsors has taken out first prize at a globally focused pitch night, hosted by The University of Queensland in collaboration with HYPE Sports Innovation, Ministry of Sport and Advance Queensland.