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Wyatt Roy, the youngest person elected to the Australian Parliament at age 20, was the first Assistant Minister for Innovation, but not according to his Afiniti profile page.

A $7.8 million investment in 17 innovative Australian companies by the Federal Government will benefit the mining, information technology, renewable energy and advanced manufacturing industry sectors.

More than 100 startup hopefuls are now hearing from business icons Mark Bouris and Creel Price, and later today will hear from Assistant Minister for Innovation, Wyatt Roy.

The AIIA supports Turnbull’s ‘holistic policy package which creates the conditions needed for Australia to transition to a 21st century economy.’

Like many other organisations today, Microsoft is delighted to welcome the Australian Government’s Innovation Statement and its 20 new measures so Australia ‘can remain globally competitive’.

Yet more applause for Malcolm Turnbull’s Innovation Statement, this time from Australia’s peak Internet body, Internet Australia and its CEO, Laurie Patton.

Adobe welcomes the Innovation Statement, ‘in particular the focus on talent and skills, which is crucial to Australia’s economic prosperity and ability to fully leverage the benefits of digital.’

Australia’s peak advocacy group for startups, StartupAUS, says the new innovation polices are ‘the first big step… to modernise startup rates across the nation.’

Payments processor Braintree has shared its response to ‘the key measures announced that embrace the age of technology disruption.’

The federal government has put its support behind the launch of a new, central source of information sharing, licencing preferences and facilitating contact for intellectual property in Australia generated by the public research sector.

The Australian Government has made a total of $8.5 million available to a range of companies to assist them in commercialising their innovative products and services.