An effective way for research organisations to get great ideas to market?

19 July, 2016 If innovation is the growth driver for Australian and New Zealand economies, what role can our research institutions play in developing and maintaining a healthy innovation system? Our...

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Are you adapting your marketing pitch for each business that you engage with?

10 July, 2016 With the FY16 year-end now behind us, it is time to take stock of our achievements, collect metrics and prepare reports for our stakeholders on our performance over the previous 12 months....

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Great science & great marketing make the perfect match

16 June, 2016 If you ask the question ‘What is marketing?’ you’ll receive a variety of answers and invariably one will be ‘getting someone to buy something that they don’t want or need’....

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Google gives student startups a boost at the KCA Accelerator Demo Day

23 May, 2016 The nation’s best recent graduates of university accelerator programs came together last Tuesday in Sydney to pitch to an audience of over 100 drawn from Australia’s innovation...

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Latest data shows university/industry engagement happens in many ways, most of them bigger and more effective than commercialisation

5 May, 2016 KCA welcomes the publication of the National Survey of Research Commercialisation by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. The National Survey of Research Commercialisation...

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics, and how I can’t escape my job even on holiday

18 April, 2016 I was lucky enough to recently find myself diving on the Great Barrier Reef, up around Lizard Island for my holidays. This was around the time that the press started talking about coral...

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Commercialisation: There are no Rules!

30 September, 2014 The 2014 KCA Annual Conference, themed “Commercialisation: There are no Rules,” was held 18-19 September in Brisbane. Day one kicked off with a lively, theatre style comical...

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Finalists announced for the Inaugural KCA Research Commercialisation Awards

18 August, 2014 Celebrating Australian Innovators translation of Knowledge & Research into business Australia punches above its weight in research with journal publications and patent applications....

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Investing in the Future – Post Conference Wrap Up 2013

25 November, 2013 Investing in the Future was the theme of the 2013 KCA Annual Conference, held 13-15 November at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.  Attendees were privy to insights from a diverse array of...

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May Innovation Policy Report

20 May, 2013 The May Innovation Policy Report is now available via the Department of Innovation’s website. This edition features: Big Data and the Public Sector Plan for Australian Jobs: the...

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