Innovation and Commercialisation at UNSW

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Innovation and Commercialisation at UNSW

• GSOE9400 FoE Research Induction
• 3 April 2009

Dr Steve Brodie Senior Business Development
Manager Physical Sciences and Engineering
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Todays presentation
Introduction
NewSouth Innovations
Research Innovation
Wrap-up
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About Steve

• Steve Brodie, PhD
• PhD in Materials Science and Engineering
• gt15 years experience in Corporate Research,
  Innovation and Commercialisation
• Experience in UK, Europe and Australia
• Senior Business Development Manager with NewSouth
  Innovations

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Todays presentation
Introduction
NewSouth Innovations
Research Innovation
Wrap-up
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Quotable Quote

• Prediction is very difficult,
• especially about the future.
• - Neils Bohr

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A broad research continuum
Pure Discovery Blue Sky Curiosity driven
Applied Industry Focussed Contract Research
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Innovation Steves View
A great idea
that creates value
at an appropriate moment in time.
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Entrepreneurship
PROBLEM/OPPORTUNITY
IDEA/SOLUTION
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Context
Say, what is a mountain goat doing in this cloud
bank?
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Source 99 More Unuseless Japanese Inventions,
Kenji Kawakami
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Todays presentation
Introduction
NewSouth Innovations
Research Innovation
Wrap-up
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About NewSouth Innovations

• NewSouth Innovations Pty Limited commercialises
  research and technologies developed at the
  University of New South Wales

Grants Management Office
Research Strategy Office
NewSouth Global
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IP Policy and student inventors obligations?

• Tell the University you have developed IP
• Using IP Notification Form (Send to NSi)
• Do not prematurely disclose invention to public
  (Patents need to be novel!)
• Assignment of Intellectual Property
• Re-assignment to staff members or students
• When decision made not to commercialise

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UNSW IP Policy - Students

• University asserts legal and beneficial
  ownership of Intellectual Property
• (b) created by students of the University where
• (i) generation of the Intellectual Property has
  required use of University resources or
• (ii) generation of the Intellectual Property has
  resulted from the use of pre-existing
  Intellectual Property owned by the University or
• (iii) the Intellectual Property belongs to a set
  of Intellectual Property generated by a team of
  which the student is a member or
• (iv) the Intellectual Property has been generated
  as a result of funding provided by or obtained by
  the University

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Technology Commercialisation

• NSi staff work in partnership with inventors to
• Assess the commercial potential
• Assess Intellectual Property (IP) space and
  protect where necessary
• Commercialise the technology
• Licenses, spin-off companies, sales etc

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Whats In It For Me? (as an inventor)

• Get to make the world a better place!
• Inventors share returns - personally!
• Good commercialisation experience
• Patenting, understanding customers, licence deals
  etc

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Whats In It For Me? (as an inventor)
90,000 (net return)
33.3
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30,000 Inventors
30,000 NSi
30,000 University
8.3
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22,500 Faculty
7,500 Research Initiatives
School, Centre, Research Group
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Recent successful examples

• Photovoltaics
• VR Mining iCinema
• Waste recycling - OneSteel
• Cancer Management - Covidien
• BT Imaging

BT Imaging Product design
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Todays presentation
Introduction
NewSouth Innovations
Research Innovation
Wrap-up
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Key Takeaways

• Always keep looking out for opportunities and
  ideas
• Remember that patentable inventions need to be
  novel
• Keep up to date lab books
• If in doubt ask for help
• GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

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NewSouth Innovations gtgt specialists in
taking research and innovation to the global
market
s.brodie_at_nsinnovations.com.au
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Patents - A word of wisdom

• To be granted a patent the invention needs to be
  novel
• So do not tell anyone!
• In some countries the priority date is based on
  First to invent rather than First to submit
• So laboratory notebooks are VERY IMPORTANT

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Lab Books

• VERY important
• Deals with the First to Invent versus First to
  Lodge issue
• Lab books should be
• Bound, have numbered pages, be signed and
  witnessed, written in ink, legible
• Lab books are the property of the University

www.ipaustralia.gov.au