ITEE seminar: Dr Rowan Gilmore, 03.00PM, Thu 11 Sep 2003

Capturing the Value of Australia's Research Potential

Speaker: Dr Rowan Gilmore, ITEE

When: 03.00PM, Thursday 11 Sep 2003

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.

Contact:

A/Prof. Nicholas Shuley, seminar host (shuley@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator) (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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