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Agenda

 
Day One: TUESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8.15
Registration and coffee
8.55
Chair’s opening remarks
9.00
Federal Address
The Hon Richard Marles MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry
9.30
Innovation: emerging thinking and new pathways
  • The new reality: should innovation develop and function along an extended value chain?
  • How do we break out of traditional proprietary boundaries and research silos to collaborate across sectors?
Evan Thornley, CEO, Better Place Australia
10.00
Universities’ research capacity and the national innovation outcome
  • What will ensure universities make a major contribution to the Australian innovation system?
  • Building a world class university system on the twin pillars of excellence and engagement
Professor Peter Hj, Vice Chancellor, University of South Australia
10.30
Morning tea
10.50
The national innovation system: new directions
Senior Representative, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
11:20
The players on the innovation continuum – rethinking how we work
  • Finding common ground among government, universities and business on the underpinnings of innovation
  • Areas of disconnect
  • A look at national and international examples of what works and what doesn’t
Professor Mary O’Kane, Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer, NSW
11.50
PANEL
Does increased global competition call for a recalibration of our research funding system?
  • Concentrating research investment in proven centres of excellence vs. broad spread of research dollars
  • Will current funding of research propel Australian Universities from the middle to the top of the global competition?
  • Hubs-and-spokes and compacts strategies – can this be leveraged to better use available funding?
Professor Peter Høj, Vice Chancellor, University of South Australia
Professor Mary O’Kane, Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer, NSW
Professor Daine Alcorn, Pro Vice Chancellor- Research and Innovation RMIT
12.30
Lunch
1.30
The (lack of a) research use exemption in Australian patent law
  • Current state of play with respect to the research use exemption in Australian patent law
  • An examination of the policy issues that support (or not) the introduction of a research use exemption in Australia
  • A consideration of the two sets of reforms proposed by the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property and IP Australia
Chris Dent, Senior Research Fellow, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia
2.00
PANEL Managing IP – ownership, commercialisation and returns pathways
  • How can universities and research centres’ best identify, exploit and protect IP
  • Strategies to broaden the skills of universities beyond early discovery to application in market
  • Managing expectations around IP – usage, protection and returns in collaborative projects
  • Changes to the patent system-what will this mean
Dr Bruce Whan, Director, Swinburne Knowledge
Lynne Peach, Partner, Minter Ellison
Dean Alle, CEO, BwiseIP
Dr Jim Henderson, Acting General Manager Commercialisation, New South innovations
2:40
Addressing articulated challenges in medium and long term collaborative efforts
  • Balancing commercial success with social and environmental impact
  • Building innovation and R & D capacity for end users
  • Pathways to effective deployment of end-user driven research
  • Global research and education engagement
Session moderator: Michael Hartmann, CEO, CRC Association
Dr Tony Press, CEO, CRC for Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems
Dr. Robert Cowan, CEO, Hearing CRC
Mick Gooda, CEO, CRC for Aboriginal Health
3.20
Afternoon tea
3:40
Capability through collaboration
  • Harnessing expertise and resources from industry and researchers
  • Managing diverse partnerships: implications for IP and commercialisation
  • Enhancing the skills of graduates and industry partners
Dr. Mark Hodge, CEO, Defence Materials Technology Centre
4:20
Innovation is always a collaboration
  • Why do we know more about the beginning of that sentence than the end of it?
  • What drives collaborations and better collaborative competencies?
Frank Wyatt, Managing Director, Enterprising Partnerships
5:00
Closing remarks from the Chair & close of day one
ADDITIONAL NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY

CONFERENCE DINNER

Delegates can register separately for a Conference Dinner hosted by the Business Higher Education Round Table
Date: 22nd September
Venue: L'Aqua, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour
Time: 7pm
Dress Code: Business Attire
Price: $150.00 (See back page for booking details)

 
Day Two: WEDNESDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8.15
Registration and coffee
8.55
Chair’s opening remarks
9.00
Connecting today’s research to tomorrow’s innovation
Robert Chalmers, CEO, Adelaide Research and Innovation
9.30
Innovation in a downturn
Michael Hitz, Principal, Boston Consulting Group
10.00
Morning tea
10.20
Open innovation in the pharmaceutical sector – the current model and future trends
  • Which R&D activities benefit most from open innovation
  • What changes in the business model will enable the culture for open innovation
  • How to connect external ideas with internal vision
Ashley Bates, Head of R&D Alliances, GlaxoSmithKline Australia
10.50
From needles in haystacks to bullseyes with arrows
  • Using the Innovation Academy to harness collaboration
  • From capturing ideas to delivering innovation outcomes
  • Innovation in Overalls – learning by action not by theory
Peter Williams, CEO, Deloitte Digital
11.30
The Australian Access Federation Project
12.00
Investing in higher education and university research for sustained economic growth
Professor Alan Robson, Vice Chancellor, University of Western Australia, Chair, Go8
12:40
Lunch
1:40
Structures and systems to support and enable all ends of the company innovation chain
Alexander Gosling, Director, Invetech
2:10
What's your company's strategy? Innovation or continuous improvement?
Dr. Avnesh Ratnanesan, Innovation Manager, Pfizer Australia
2:40
Universities as creators and direct contributors to new enterprise growth
  • How research is informed by and responsive to changing economic realities
  • Does the Australian innovation system enable such engagement?
  • Case Study: TropLinks
Professor Peter Andrews, Queensland Chief Scientist, Queensland Government
3:10
Afternoon tea
3:30
Funding innovation through venture capital
  • Typically investors wait until they can see the marketplace reality of a product or process innovation before fronting up with funds. A look at strategies to secure venture capital at an early stage in the commercialisation process. What are the strategies to enable such funding?
Dr Katherine Woodthorpe, CEO, Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL)
4:00
Leveraging r&d tax concession in a simplified and enhanced system
Kris Gale, Managing Director, Michael Johnson & Associates
4:40
Closing remarks from Chair & end of conference
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