Special Report: Innovation

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.

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.

A LACK of pre-seed funding is the most common complaint from those involved with the State’s innovation sector.

ISA Technologies, the company that invested $5 million in a supercomputer in 2003, is providing access to that infrastructure, free of charge, to what it calls a group of trusted participants.

THAT simple ideas can take significant amounts of money, time and research effort to bring to market readiness is not news to the team at Intierra.The idea was to gather a range of information importa

IT was the expertise of two Edith Cowan University researchers that prompted PanoramaFLAT to make Perth a major base for a planned global roll-out of its microphotonics products, currently under devel

TWO decades ago the staff at emerging technology company Poseidon Scientific Instruments were tinkering away on radio technology for cray fisherman.

FARMING electronics developer and electronic display sign manufacturer Computronics is a significant investor in research and development in Western Australia and, with a recent acquisition, is keen t