Part of the funding previous cut from CSIRO and NICTA/Data61 has been restored in the Government's
2016 Innovation Statsment. I suggest some of this should
go to training the researchers in innovation, entrepreneurship,
commercialization and communication. These organizations have been able
to carry out research, but have a poor track record in turning the
results of research into products and services. The reason for this poor
performance, I suggest, is in part because the researchers have seen it as
someone else's job to take their work and turn it into a commercial
venture. That attitude needs to change and the best way to do it is to
teach the researchers how commercialization works, with courses on
innovation and entrepreneurship, where they are required to practice
communicating with a non-technical audience. I am designing a course to be
delivered via mobile devices to help with this.
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