Assumptions vs Facts – the difference start-ups don’t often get

Jun 23, 2016 | commercialisation, Ideas, Innovation, investment readiness

I’m often asked ‘what is commercialisation?’ and my standard response is that it’s about replacing assumptions with facts. Then I often have to explain what I mean. Here’s what I say. When you have a new product or service concept, and you establish a...

Webinar: Love Your Guts – the Progel/Perkii story

Jun 21, 2016

Presenter: Cameron Turner Organisation: Progel & UniQuest Cameron has spent more than 20 years researching problems, developing solutions and executing innovation and commercialisation strategies to transform ideas into sustainable competitive advantage. He...

Webinar: Managing Innovation in the Food Technology Sector

Jun 16, 2016

Presenter: Ross Naidoo Organisation: Agri-Science Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Ross Naidoo is the Senior Food Science Liaison Officer with Innovative Food Technologies (IFT), a unit of the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. His...

Webinar: Collaboration v. Control

May 25, 2016

How to structure and negotiate mutually beneficial R&D and IP agreements Presenter: Rob McInnes Organisation: DibbsBarker Rob is a Partner of DibbsBarker, specialising in intellectual property transactions. He has over 25 years’ experience in the management,...

2016 Federal Budget: What’s In It for Australian Innovation?

May 4, 2016 | Uncategorized

Every state and federal budget promises tax cuts, incentives and other initiatives to stimulate jobs generation and economic growth. And then there are the usual belt-tightening and “pinch from Peter to pay for Paul” platitudes to fund them. I’ve...