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On 10 August 2021, Veena will speak at the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering's annual symposium, 'scaling up research commercialisation 2021'.
A Fellow of the Academy, Veena will be highlighting some of the UNSW SMaRT Centre commercialisation successes for sustainability innovations to help the symposium explore how can Australia’s science and engineering research achievements and capabilities contribute more to the nation’s prosperity, resilience and well-being.
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Date / time: Science and the Public Good is available via livestream 10 August 9.25am - 6pm (AEST).
ATSE says:
Australian expertise and experience in all facets of research translation and commercialisation are arguably not of sufficient scale and interconnectedness to meet the challenges we now face. Scaling up promising start-ups into sustainable businesses appears to be especially difficult.
Ongoing and new Commonwealth and State government initiatives are aimed at lifting the combined performance of the business and the research sectors. Improving research collaboration, translation and commercialisation is one of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering’s three strategic priorities.
This one-day Symposium has been organised by the NSW Division to contribute to this