World-first career framework for Technology Transfer Professionals published

9 September, 2016 Strategic thinking, business and commercial acumen plus the ability to communicate and influence are some of the identified skills required by Technology Transfer Professionals (TTPs) to...

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Celebrating Australian Success – Translating Knowledge & Research into Business

2 September, 2016 Release date: Friday, 2 September 2016 UNSW, Curtin University and UniSA are research commercialisation winners The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Curtin University (WA) and the...

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Academics do want to engage with business, but need more support

1 August, 2016 Drew Evans, University of South Australia and Carolin Plewa, University of Adelaide Universities today are under more pressure than ever to collaborate with industry. In the words of Prime...

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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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We’re walking in sunshine!  #KCA2016 is your ticket to get the ins and outs as to what the NISA means for TT practitioners here in Australia

30 June, 2016 There has never been a more exciting time to be in technology transfer.  There is no doubt that the Turnbull Government’s championing of innovation through the Ideas Boom has thrust...

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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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KCA takes 5 with TT young gun to talk #KCA2016

8 June, 2016 The countdown is on to the Innovation is a State of Mind themed 2016 KCA Annual Conference.  KCA sat down with technology transfer young gun Giulia Gizzi from LaTrobe University to hear...

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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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