Developing research into a marketable product or service can be complex but the returns are great if all the right systems are in place as Julie-anne Sprague and David Gibson report.
PROVIDING a big pool of in-house pre-seed funding is not the only path to commercialisation, according to The University of Western Australia Office of Industry and Innovation director, Andy Sierakowski.
WITH a State election imminent letterboxes will be increasingly stuffed with more unwelcome advertising bumph from parties to convince voters they and their candidates are working for their electorates.
THE University of Queensland made nearly four times more money from licence income in 2002 than the next best performing university and had more than $40 million equity in 34 spin-out companies.
PERTH was home to Australia's largest private equity transaction of 2004 when heavy equipment supplier Emeco International was sold to GS Private Equity and Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for a price believed to be about $450 million.
WESTFIELD'S purchase of a half-share in Whitford City Shopping Centre for $192.5 million ranks as the largest property sale in Western Australia for 2004.
THAT there's no shortage of things to do in the Margaret River region is news to no-one. What seems to be in short supply, however, is parking spots for the punters, and staff for the businesses they are visiting.
“WELL, here we are again” were the words former prime minister Paul Keating uttered when announcing the 1996 Federal election he would lose to John Howard.
THE $1.86 billion sale of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline has been judged by WA Business News to be the top business deal in Western Australia in 2004.
WE support the State Opposition's recent call for the Gallop Government to intervene in the strike by 140 construction workers who are attempting to cajole the employer of other c
THE boom conditions on the Australian stock market in 2003 laid a solid foundation for 2004, with most broking firms reporting improved totals in the WA Business News 2004 equity capital raising survey.
FOR the second year running, Alinta was one of the most active companies in Western Australia, completing a series of deals that added to the size and diversity of its operations.
CANADIAN engineering giant Hatch appears to have won the biggest share of major contracting work in Western Australia in a year that was dominated by oil and gas, resources and the Perth to Mandurah railway.
THE High Court has overturned a decision by Western Australia's Full Supreme Court in relation to statutory compensation for property affected by plann
IT has been some time since I've read anything on America's brutal Civil War, a conflict that so horrified Australia's colonial politicians that they responded by enacting the White Australia policy once the colonies had federated.
Neil Hamilton unexpectedly found himself at the centre of two of the biggest business crises of 2004. He spoke to Mark Beyer about the year that was and his plans for the future.
