Industry Engagement and Commercialisation Video Transcript

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Professor Rod Hill – Pro Vice-Chancellor Industry Engagement and Commercialisation

Rod Hill: The purpose of the Industry Engagement and Commercialisation group is to

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Rod Hill: deliver impact from the innovation that the university’s researchers deliver in the course of their normal work. It’s about capturing that benefit

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Rod Hill: and delivering it to industry and society.

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Rod Hill: Monash University has delivered a number of innovations

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Rod Hill: into society and industry in

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Rod Hill: Australia and overseas.  It has spun out over ten companies, as a result of its research work. It has been involved in a large number of the cooperative research centres in Australia

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Rod Hill: and it has delivered innovation in direct work with industry in contract research work

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Rod Hill: Recent examples of successful research transfer technologies involving Monash research inventions have been a

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Rod Hill: A license to a US company to develop an oral analgesic to treat the symptoms of cancer-related pain.

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Rod Hill: A license to a United Kingdom company to commercialise novel technologies for regenerating and modifying a patient’s immune system

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Rod Hill: A license to commercialise a diagnostic for rheumatoid arthritis

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Rod Hill: There are many areas where Monash is absolutely world class. For a start its located in an

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Rod Hill: but incorporating the largest science of the CSIRO

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Rod Hill: and the Australian Synchrotron

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Rod Hill: and the Monash Medical Centre

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Rod Hill: and it has some wonderful equipment within the university including the
electron microscopy centre as well as the

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Rod Hill: Australian Stem Cell Centre and a whole range of other things.

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Rod Hill: Each door you open at Monash, you come across another treasure.

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Rod Hill: So we’d like to think that industry understands what those advantages are, that we have critical strengths in certain areas that are of use to them,
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Rod Hill: and that we can capture those so that we can deliver benefit to industry.

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Rod Hill: If industry or government wants to contact the University about engaging with us in partnerships, short or long term, then I encourage them to access the Monash University website.

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Rod Hill: or to make an enquiry at the general number. The University is renowned for this sort of work for industry. For delivering impact from innovation.

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www.monash.edu/industryengagement

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