Managers of Innovation and Commercial Development are located in faculties and the University institutes, as well as the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre.

These people are able to assist their staff and students in the following areas:

• Commercialisation Education

  The Managers provide or organise workshops and seminars throughout the year. Topics include commercialisation pathways, intellectual property, negotiation, consulting, setting up a business and other topics requested by schools, centres and institutes. The Managers provide general information about commercialisation on each of their faculty's web pages, under 'Research' and have information leaflets available to help with common questions, such as the patenting process.

• Technology Assessment

  The Managers can facilitate confidential assessments of planned or ongoing research to assist researchers in determining if their work is of potential commercial value. If the work is commercially promising, the Managers help with strategies to identify possible industry partners for collaborative grant applications and research contracts or sources of pre-seed, seed and venture capital.

• Intellectual Property Rights

  The effective management of intellectual property rights underpins the commercial potential of UQ's technologies. Thus, core activities for the Managers are identifying patentable ideas with inventors, liaison with patent attorneys and management of patents.

• Marketing

  The Managers help UQ to establish and manage a network of industrial, government, media and tertiary sector contacts for potential collaborations, commercial deals and so on. They also carry out market research and develop marketing plans for specific business ideas and technologies in the faculties.

• Deal Negotiation

  UQ looks for commercialisation strategies that create the greatest value in the longer term. This usually involves identifying companies best able to take our product to market and for new technologies, it may mean starting up a company. When suitable business partners have been found for licensing technology, joint ventures, sponsorship of research programs, contractual use of the research expertise of the faculties, or investment, the Managers help in creating and negotiating deals to achieve the best possible arrangement for the parties.

• Monitoring

  Faculty technology commercialisation activities require ongoing monitoring to ensure technical milestones for research and payments for their achievement are made on schedule. In addition, the Managers monitor the global patent and commercial environment for alerts to new technologies that might impinge upon or complement research at UQ.

• Reward Sharing

  The Managers participate in ensuring that monies owing to researchers and schools/centres/institutes from contracts are paid according to agreed schedules and to the correct parties. They are likewise involved with the commercialisation income from patented inventions, which is distributed according to current UQ practice to inventors, schools/centres/institutes and UQ.

Managers: Innovation and Commercial Development

Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Faculty of Health Sciences

Faculty of Science

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)

The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute (UQ DI)

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Instiute for Social Science Research (ISSR)

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI)

Mater Medical Research Institute (MMRI)