Research Commercialisation Workshops
Discover how your inventions, ideas and expertise could achieve real impact on a global level through commercialisation.
Learn how the parallel pathways of Intellectual Property protection and dissemination can advance your profile and objectives in both research commercialisation and publishing at UoW.
Attending a UniQuest research commercialisation workshop will:
- Expand your knowledge and networks
- Challenge your thinking about commercialisation opportunities
- Develop your comprehension of IP management
- Give you access to some of Australia’s leading commercial research funding experts
- Enhance your understanding of commercialisation options – consulting, strategic industry partnerships, licensing, start-up companies
- Stimulate new ideas about career opportunities
- Enrich the value of your university experience
UniQuest is Australia’s largest technology transfer organisation, collaborating with UoW to generate benefits for researchers, UoW and the wider community. Drawing on extensive expertise from within its ranks and associations, UniQuest’s workshops offer an intensive grounding in the processes, practices, pitfalls and potential rewards of commercialising research across a wide range of academic disciplines.
Informative and insightful speakers’ presentations are complemented by creative groupwork sessions, in preparation for teams to apply their new-found knowledge and pitch their innovative ideas to an experienced panel of commercialisation professionals.
Academic Researchers' Workshop: 1- 2 May 2008
All UoW academic staff active in research are invited to apply. A limited number of fully and partially subsidised places are available (applicants may be asked to identify matching funds). Applications close on Friday 4 April 2008.
HDR Postgraduate Student Workshop: 17 - 18 April 2008
Includes a special session on career development All HDR students from all UoW faculties are welcome to apply. Places are limited. Applications close on Friday 21 March 2008.
Workshop details (for both workshops)
Venue: Novotel Twin Waters Resort, Sunshine Coast
Cost: Workshop fees and materials, accommodation, meals, transport to and from the University are provided by UoW.
Application: Apply on-line today at www.uniquest.com.au/workshop
Successful applicants will be notified of their registration within three weeks of application.
For more information visit www.uniquest.com.au or contact:
Dr Scott Needham x4470 scottn@uow.edu.au
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