Capturing the Value of Australia's Research Potential
Speaker: Dr Rowan Gilmore, ITEE
When: 2003-09-11 15:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: A/Prof. Nicholas Shuley
Abstract:There is an enormous amount of potential wealth in the intellectual
property of Australia's research institutions. Governments
throughout Australia invest over $5billion annually in research and
development, over one-half of this at universities.
What are the returns from this investment? Public good and an
educated workforce are two of the traditional outcomes from a
university's research and teaching missions, but support for
industry is increasingly being seen as a third. A recent report
commissioned by the Australian Institute for Commercialisation
revealed that continuing to improve the commercialisation
performance of the nation's research institutions would add over
$15B in exports to the economy by 2020. This seminar explores some
of the current debate surrounding commercialisation, the barriers to
commercialisation that make it so difficult, and how they are being
tackled.
Biography:Rowan Gilmore is Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute
for Commercialization (AIC), a national, not for profit company that
delivers programs to improve commercialisation of Australia's
research investment.
Rowan graduated from the University of Queensland and later obtained
his D.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering at Washington University
in St Louis. His first commercialisation effort was to start a
US-based company to pioneer nonlinear computed aided design software
in the area of his doctoral research, wireless electronics. His most
recent effort was probably more work - and nowhere near as
commercially rewarding- publishing a two volume, graduate level
electronics text book.
He has spent much of his working life abroad, where he has worked at
senior levels in both small start-up companies and large
multinationals. He recently returned to Brisbane from Switzerland
and the UK where he was managing director of Network Services Europe
for SITA-Equant, the airline IT and telecommunications company.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:A/Prof. Nicholas Shuley, seminar host (shuley@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)