The Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC), a division of QMI Solutions, provides innovation and collaboration services that help organisations grow. Nationally, we work with entrepreneurs, businesses, research organisations and governments to identify opportunities to convert ideas or intellectual property into successful business outcomes. Using our networks and experience, we deliver services to achieve that by establishing partnerships, improving skills, and providing commercialisation advice.

We are also an advocate for commercialisation, and assist government with policy initiatives and thought leadership in the innovation space.

Our innovation and commercialisation services include:

• facilitation of collaboration along the value chain, for instance between research organisations and SMEs, or governments and industry (intermediary services)
• commercialisation project management services to achieve and manage technology transfer or brokerage of intellectual property.
• strategic advice around IP management and commercialisation
• market research and opportunity analysis
• professional development programs to increase commercialisation skills and successes.

Ph 1300 364 739
www.ausicom.com

Bayer is an international, research-based group with major businesses in health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Employing over 111,400 people worldwide, and 860 in Australia/New Zealand, the Bayer Group has a portfolio of over 5,000 products and operations in nearly all countries of the globe. Worldwide operations are managed from Group headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany.

Bayer aims for technological leadership in its core activities. Fundamental to our business is the acknowledgment that technical and commercial expertise involves a responsibility to work for the common good and contribute to sustainable development.

In 2010 the Bayer Group recorded sales of EUR 35.1 billion, and invested heavily in research and development. Bayer’s operations in Australia and New Zealand generated AU$784 million ($NZ999 million) in revenue in 2010.

Ph 02 9391 6259
www.bayer.com.au

CSIRO is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse R&D organisations in the world. For more than 80 years, CSIRO has been a trusted provider of breakthrough science for clients ranging from well-known multi-nationals to Australian SMEs.

With 6,500 staff working from sites across the nation and around the globe and an annual budget of over $900m, CSIRO is uniquely positioned to provide the multidisciplinary R&D expertise necessary to tackle today’s complex challenges. CSIRO research delivers solutions for agribusiness, energy and transport, environment and natural resources, health, information technology, telecommunications, manufacturing and mineral resources.

Ph 1300 363 400
www.csiro.au

ANSTO is the heart of Australia’s nuclear science and technology expertise and works with a wide range of range of industry groups.

• ANSTO was behind the development of CeramiSphere®, a groundbreaking nanotechnology application for the encapsulation, protection and controlled release of active molecules for healthcare and other industrial applications;
• ANSTO Minerals is one of the world’s leading process development consulting groups with a 30-year track record delivering substantial financial and environmental benefits to mining and minerals processing customers around the world; and
• Current medical trials in the USA on a new imaging technique developed by ANSTO could also open a window into new diagnostic options for patients with Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease.

Find out how ANSTO can assist your business by contacting our Business Development Team.

Ph (02) 02 9717 7000 or 1300 971 700 (toll free)
www.ansto.gov.au

Shelston IP is one of the leading intellectual property (IP) firms in Australia with specialist teams practicing in all areas of IP and across all technologies.

Our teams of specialist patent attorneys, trade marks attorneys and IP lawyers provide comprehensive and fully integrated IP services and advice. Our services encompass the protection, management, commercialisation and enforcement of IP, locally and internationally.

"Mind to market" reflects a crucial difference between Shelston IP and other firms.

We understand what it takes to convert your innovations into intellectual assets – and to exploit those assets for sustainable competitive advantage.

Ph 02 9777 1111
www.shelstonip.com

The Advanced Manufacturing CRC (AMCRC) aims to set the standard in innovation creation, practice and education. Through our industry and research collaborations we are working to foster the creation of intellectual property in next generation technologies, products and processes.

The AMCRC is part of the Cooperative Research Centres Program where, with funding from the Australian Government, researchers and industries are brought together to develop lasting innovative solutions. With an emphasis on delivering economic, environmental and social benefits, the CRC program combines leading research capabilities with invaluable industry knowledge and intellectual property.

The AMCRC plays a vital role in the development and delivery of cutting edge technologies and a highly skilled workforce to keep Australian manufacturing industries globally competitive and sustainable.

Ph 03 3214 4780
www.amcrc.com.au

Innovation is at the core of Business Acumen Magazine.

Business Acumen Magazine has been Queensland’s largest circulating business magazine since its inception in February 2004 and now Business Acumen is growing its readership nationally.  Business Acumen’s support for the Innovation Series has been a key part of the publication’s commitment and drive in encouraging innovation in business in Queensland and, now, throughout Australia.  We congratulate the Innovation Series on its timely – and vital-expansion to Sydney and Melbourne, where we believe it will continue to energise business innovation just as it has in Queensland for many years.

Business innovators and decision makers turn to Business Acumen’s print magazine and online information services – including the new enhanced digital Acumen Magazine – to seek better ways to do business and to avail new business opportunities. 

Many of Queensland and Australia’s world-class innovations in fields as diverse as nantechnology, computer software, engineering, green technology, bio-science, aerospace, design and sociology are explored and re-visited through Business Acumen’s iconic Innovation section.  It is this focus – which an eye for commercialisation opportunities – that sets Business Acumen magazine apart in its promotion of Australian business innovation.

Ph 07 3613 9611
www.businessacumen.biz