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With Australia just coming out of recession, it is unsurprising that there has been a strong focus from federal and state governments on addressing unemployment levels and ensuring that our university graduates are able to find jobs.

In August this year, Hamilton12 signed a partnership agreement with S&P Dow Jones Indices, a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets. The signing means that S&P will validate and calculate investable indices created and marketed by Hamilton12. From November, this year, the Hamilton12 Australian Diversified Yield Index is live.

In Australia, more children die from injury than cancer, asthma and infectious diseases combined. UQ PhD candidate Merry Strange and husband Johnathon are acting to change this through the founding of One for you, to educate and promote awareness about the importance of first aid education.

Australia is officially in recession. With the unemployment rate climbing close to 10% by 2020’s end, we must harness the full potential of our national talent – foster innovation and entrepreneurship to create jobs, and rebuild our economy. A key factor in achieving this lies in addressing the gender imbalance in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and expanding our number of female founders and leaders.

Three UQ female founders share their successes and advice on how to break into the entrepreneurship space.

Two UQ alumni startups made the finals in the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year competition, which ran as a global virtual event 1-10 November 2020.

The science breakthroughs of the year 1-10 November 2020: Falling Walls and Berlin Science Week

Four entrepreneurially minded students have taken home $10,000 after winning the 2020 #TransformLaw KWM Prize with their pro bono digital marketplace concept ‘Elysian’.

Over 140 UQ students put their entrepreneurial skills to the test for the inaugural Ventures Industry Challenge addressing and exploring solutions around the increasingly pressing issue of water scarcity.

A$100,000 prize money in reach for sponsored student and innovator of agribusiness solution, SmartHarvest, Dr Zhong Xiang Cheah (Bachelor of Agricultural Science Hons 1 ’15, Doctor of Philosophy '20).

Raising her voice to end poverty, inequality or tackle climate change, Runali Maniya’s startup, SDG Impactors, wants you to wear the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a t-shirt to Leave No One Behind.

Teams rose to the challenge at The University of Queensland's Ventures Validate final pitch event. The event concluded a two-month growth program for budding entrepreneurs, with a share of $10,000 awarded to the four top teams.

The University of Queensland’s newly appointed Entrepreneur in Residence, Yotam Rosenbaum, brings decades of experience in the music industry, founding and selling a music-streaming app, and working with hundreds of startups to help UQ founders accelerate the growth of their own ventures.

Over the past six-weeks, UQ students from different disciplines have come together to develop a solution to the problems and opportunities surrounding water scarcity for the inaugural Ventures Industry Challenge.

UQ alumna Dr Ariel Marcy (Doctor of Philosophy ‘20) has secured a licensing deal for her board game Go Extinct!. The deal with Genius Games, a US publisher of STEM-based educational board games, came right after a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Inspiration can come in the most unlikely places.
For Dr Elliot Smith (Bachelor of Engineering '12, Doctor of Philosophy '17), his lightbulb moment came while sipping beers at a networking event with well-known entrepreneur and investor Steve Baxter.

University of Queensland PhD Candidate Alan Robertson, has been awarded second place at the Falling Walls Lab Australia last month for his startup ClearSKY Genomics.

Sabrina Chakori, founder of the Brisbane Tool Library has been announced as a winner of the Create Change Award at the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards QLD.

UQ Business School alumnus Ocean Cheung is the perfect example of where exposing yourself to entrepreneurship programs at university can change your life on graduation.

In conversation with Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga Martinez (Bachelor of Economics (Hons) ’19) about a growth mindset and his tech-education startup.