Supermarket chain Woolworths will invest about $1 million over three years for research into retail innovation.

More than 40 per cent of older Australians say the internet is too expensive, leaving them at risk of being shut off from health and other online services.

Australians are expected to spend $5.8 billion on computer and online games over the next four years however a lack of locally available skills available to the country's gaming industry could see it miss out on this boom.

The quest to improve Australian road systems received a boost this week with the opening of a research centre at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.

The Australian e-Health Research Centre has created an innovative new forecasting tool to ease backlogs in hospital emergency departments