The third Podcast in the Nanotechnology Victoria Series focuses on Nanotechnology investment and commercialisation and presents the views of six key stakeholders on the crucial issues around how Nanotechnology can be taken from the laboratory and translated into successful commercial outcomes.
This podcast describes the experiences of people at different stages of the investment cycle and demonstrates that a key element for success is a big market opportunity, effective execution and a passionate team.
It features interviews with;
Dr Peter Binks the Chief Executive of Nanotechnology Victoria, headquartred in Melbourne Australia. Nanotechnology Victoria was formed three years ago as a consortium between three of Victoria’s Nano Active Universities, Monash University, RMIT and Swinburne University of Technology. Peter is focused on the commercialisation process with several Nanotechnology projects that are now market ready.
Greg Smith of Sciventures is someone who is very much at the sharp end of the commercialisation process, he’s the guy who has to make the big call on whether a risky seed investment should be made into a university start up.
Dr. Paul McCormack, the CEO of Perth based Advanced Nanotechnology, who has taken Nanotech research from his laboratory at the University of Western Australia, all the way to a listing on the Australian Stock exchange.
Calum Drummond is the Chief of the Division of Materials Science and Engineering at the Australia Government laboratory CSIRO, and a federation Fellow on the Australian Research Council. Calum was also heavily involved with spinning out knowledge and IP from CSIRO into CAP-XX a world leading producer of Super Capacitors.
John Kapeleris the Deputy CEO of the Australian Institute of Commercialisation examines parallels with other technologies such as Biotech and comments on using a “template” commercialisation approach.
Tina Rankovic is at the Centre of Australian Nanotech commercialisation as the CEO of the Australian Nano Business Forum (ANBF).
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