Presenter: Dr Tony Peacock
Organisation: Cooperative Research Centres Association

Tony is a passionate advocate for applied research and was the 2010 winner of the Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting the Public Understanding of Science.

Dr Peacock is also the recent recipient of the Monash University Churchill Fellowship to investigate how businesses and universities work together to create innovation – USA, UK, Singapore.

TOPIC

Australia as a country is not very good at industry-research collaborations, ranking just behind Mexico in the 2013 OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard.

Undertaking research can be a costly, risky and daunting exercise for SMEs and large companies. Participating in a Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) vastly reduces the barriers to entry for companies to undertake research.

CRCs assemble multidisciplinary teams from across research providers to address end-user-driven research. They collaborate across all sectors (industry, academia, state government, consumers and industry associations) and create a critical mass in their field.

Participating has become even more accessible with the recent introduction of CRC-Ps, a new initiative to support short term, industry-led research.

In this Innovate Queensland GRID webinar, Dr Tony Peacock, Chief Executive of Australia’s Cooperative Research Centres Association, will explain how your organisation can benefit from participating in a CRC program.