Advice, analysis and hands-on help on industry partnership, engagement, impact and commercialisation. We help people to identify potential partners, develop the relationship and build commitment.
We offer industry sector scoping and profiling. We show how to use techniques to clarify, engage and persuade. Our tools and frameworks build impact into every project from the start.
Our team includes researchers and industry insiders with real experience in industry partnership in various industry sectors, from health to energy and manufacturing, from agriculture and fishing to schooling, creative industries and social care.
We understand the challenges and possibilities of working within the university, in research centres and faculty and university research offices and in advancement, commercialisation and business development units. Support can be scaled from whole of institution to project level.
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For those starting out
Identify potential partners by using networks and being interested in organisations outside the university. Learn how to be open to new problems for which research expertise is important.
We can help researchers form new habits in information-seeking, networking, briefing themselves, becoming engaged and developing relationships that lead to collaboration and funding.
We help people to ask questions:
What does a potential partnership with a university look like from the other side of the desk?
What are the timelines, decision-making processes, budgetary and political considerations that researchers need to understand?
What connections do I have in the public sector, private sector, NGO and philanthropic trusts?
Who is doing research and analysis in these sectors and how could I learn from them?
What am I bringing to the table?
FOR THOSE LOOKING TO EXPAND
Scaling up research projects and partnerships into long-standing collaborations and programmatic funding requires strategic planning. We can help in identifying priorities, gaps, missed opportunities and new openings. Where teams are moving into new areas, we can provide briefings and environmental scans.
We can help research leaders to develop comprehensive impact pathway plans, working backwards from their vision and core purposes. To reach each stage, what resources, people and decisions need to be in place? Implementing the plan depends on consensus and clarity in the group, and our workshops can help to build this.
We can also provide specialist expertise in intellectual property, risk management and governance, as well as in financial and information management.
Communications
Our specialists in communication can help research leaders to clarify their message, to explain, clarify, engage and persuade. We offer training in radio and televion appearances and in uses of social media and knowledge platforms.
Planning for impact
Our tools and frameworks build impact into every project from the start.
Commercialisation
Our team includes people who have led successful research commercialisation initiatives in areas including biotechnology, sensing, creative industries and social services.
Industry areas of expertise
Administrative law, agriculture, advanced manufacturing, aged care, architecture, biotechnology, cancer, computer sciences, construction, creative industries, criminal justice, design, digital media, disability services, domestic violence services, education, energy, environmental management, film, finance, fishing, gambling, health and medicine, hospitality, housing, information and library services, media industries, mental health services, music, museums, performance, primary care health services, publishing, regenerative medicine, sensing, social care, tourism, retail, youth services, urban planning, veterinary services, public sector, water.
Environmental scanning and reporting
Environmental scanning is a critical step in industry partnerships and analysis. Environmental scans link planned changes to organizational structures and strategies with external issues, events and trends. Outside Opinion environmental scans weigh external opportunities and threats against internal strengths and weaknesses. The scans can be used be used to assess: the competitiveness of large-scale funding applications in the pipeline, the viability of established or planned research institutes, centres and precincts, and the effectiveness of internal research investment strategies.
Our industry and partnership expertise
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