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I N N O V a T I GOLD COAST CITY INNOVATION STORIES 2004 INNOVATION 2ND EDITION MAYOR’S MESSAGE Gold Coast City continues to transform itself Indeed the stories featured are testament While tourism remains our ‘bread and through innovation and our City’s to the diversity of the business ‘menu’ on butter’, and proudly so, I commend to you reputation for entrepreneurship and offer in our City – from manufacturers to a sample of the progressive, unique and originality is becoming firmly established, television program makers, medical to diverse companies that show just how to complement our world-class and well- marine businesses, Gold Coast City serves much innovation there is to savour across known tourism image. up a smorgasboard of innovation – and the so many different industries. wine to go with it! The first edition of Council’s “Innovation They provide inspiration to us all. Stories” publication opened eyes to just One of the unique companies featured in some of the success stories that are this edition is Mt Nathan Winery – a family contributing to our growing status as the business that has added honey as the Innovation City. ‘secret’ ingredient to make a success of winemaking in the City’s hinterland. Some readers were surprised at the calibre of companies that call Gold Coast City This edition features large and small home, and all were impressed by their companies, long-standing and new stories of success. businesses, as well as paying tribute to two exciting projects in which Council is RON CLARKE MBE Those stories, remarkable as they are, proud to be involved, in partnership with MAYOR, GOLD COAST CITY RON CLARKE MBE provided only a taste of the achievements Mayor, Gold Coast City local industry. of innovative Gold Coast businesses and an entrée to other bold and exciting projects The Gold Coast Marine Precinct and the being pursued in our City. Pimpama Coomera Waterfutures Project are both ground-breaking initiatives that This second course, delivers up further demonstrate what government, industry proof of the City’s credentials as a serious and the community can achieve together, place to do business, and of our capacity when innovation is a key ingredient. to attract and nurture innovators across a range of industries. GOLD COAST CITY INNOVATION STORIES 2 “THIS EDITION FEATURES LARGE AND SMALL COMPANIES, LONG-STANDING AND NEW BUSINESSES, AS WELL AS PAYING TRIBUTE TO TWO EXCITING PROJECTS IN WHICH COUNCIL IS PROUD TO BE INVOLVED, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDUSTRY” GOLD COAST CITY INNOVATION STORIES 3 INTRODUCTION Necessity is the mother of invention, or so the saying goes, The original Kanga has certainly evolved over the course of And it seems innovation and success have combined to and it has also proved the inspiration behind many of the a quarter of a century, proving that innovation is as much breed more innovation. innovations we feature in this second edition of about a continual process of research and development, as The establishment of the Gold Coast Marine Precinct, in a “Innovation Stories.” it is about capitalising on an initial good idea. unique partnership between government and industry, has For Surfside Buslines it was a case of needing to cut back Gold Coast companies are also demonstrating that helped to nurture the growth of innovative marine on future fleet maintenance costs by replacing old buses, innovation can come from borrowing good ideas and businesses – from a swampy piece of disused land, the with new, better and more reliable models. adapting them in new and innovative ways…even if the precinct has grown into Australia’s Marine Mecca, employing original idea is almost 200 years old. more than 2,500 people. The problem was the company couldn’t find any custom bus designers to meet their needs – so Surfside branched The Gibson family has combined a traditional family recipe Gold Coast venture capital company inQbator has taken an out with its own bus-making arm, Bustech, to design what for adding honey to wine with modern winemaking innovative approach to ‘active investment’ to make a has become Australia’s most awarded bus, and in the techniques, in the process establishing a unique reputation success out of fostering innovative technology companies. process, establish a booming bus manufacturing business for their boutique Mt Nathan Winery. Indeed inQbator is only too proud to acknowledge that one here on the Coast. of those companies, HCV Wireless, made it into the first Kencraft Marine looked to expensive sports cars for the edition of our “Innovation Stories”. Bustech has recently signed deals with the two major bus inspiration to develop a remotely-operated self-locking engine manufacturers Volvo and Mercedes Benz, with plans marine convertible top – so that their customers (owners of to manufacture a bus a day, from a new state-of-the-art luxury super-yachts) are able to covert their tenders from facility. open boats to comfortable and protected runabouts, with the push of a button. It’s amazing to think that such a thriving enterprise started out as a sideline business, a story repeated in the stunning Stratapay examined the payment software systems success of Kanga Loaders. available to big business and came up with it’s own affordable system for small businesses. Engineers Alan Porter & Doug McIllwraith had started a business manufacturing heavy industrial hydraulic In Information Technology, the Health & Medical industry, machinery, when they began working on their original Manufacturing and Education, Gold Coast companies are concept for a motorized wheelbarrow ‘on the side’. leading the way and leading the world with inspired inventions and patented products, along with new What they developed, some 25 years ago, became known processes and unique improvements. as the Kanga – the world’s first mini-skid loader, which has since revolutionized construction sites and helped home handymen worldwide, to lift and dig their way through all sorts of jobs. “GOLD COAST COMPANIES ARE ALSO DEMONSTRATING THAT INNOVATION CAN COME FROM BORROWING GOOD IDEAS AND ADAPTING THEM IN NEW AND INNOVATIVE WAYS…EVEN IF THE ORIGINAL IDEA IS ALMOST 200 YEARS OLD” GOLD COAST CITY INNOVATION STORIES 1 r d i e innovationn v s e e l c w n u o t t v m i e e o r t n h a o r d y s GOLD COAST CITY INNOVATION STORIES 4 CONTENT’S INNOVATION STORIES 2004 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................1 Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University ...............................................................................................................7 Austmarine .......................................................................................................................................................................8 Mt Nathan Winery...........................................................................................................................................................10 Bustech ...........................................................................................................................................................................12 Kanga Loaders Australia.................................................................................................................................................14 Redmond Gary Australia.................................................................................................................................................16 Kencraft Marine ..............................................................................................................................................................18 Mustang Cruisers............................................................................................................................................................20 Gold Coast Marine Precinct............................................................................................................................................22 GlobalstarTM ...................................................................................................................................................................24 inQbator .........................................................................................................................................................................26 Stratapay ........................................................................................................................................................................28 Cloud 9...........................................................................................................................................................................30 Theyergfx........................................................................................................................................................................32 Caradata .........................................................................................................................................................................33 Myofunctional Research Co............................................................................................................................................34 Pimpama Coomera Water Futures Project .....................................................................................................................36 Future Innovation Stories...............................................................................................................................................38
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