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| Source: CSIRO. Judges question the teams at the ON Accelerator selection bootcamp held on April 6 and 7 2016. Featuring Dr Cathy Foley, chief of CSIRO's Materials Science and Engineering division, Andrew Stead, Director, Strategic Initiatives, IAG Customer Labs, Dean McEvoy, entrepreneur; Ralph Brayham, Senior Account Director, Consortium, and Phil Morle, co-founder, Pollenizer. © CSIRO, Karl Schwerdtfeger. |
Eleven teams of scientists and researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Australian universities have been selected to take part in the next round of CSIRO's ON Accelerator, a programme set out to boost Australia's innovation performance by accelerating big science and technology ideas into commercially viable opportunities.
The teams were selected on the potential of their ideas to have real positive impact on Australian industry, economy, environment and future, among other selection criteria. Some of the winning ideas include:
A GPS-free collision avoidance sensor allowing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drone devices to fly autonomously near infrastructure and in GPS-free environments, with the potential to rapidly advance the booming UAV and drone markets into new areas such as parcel delivery services
Facial-recognition technology that could provide accurate, real-time pain assessment for health patients that cannot verbally communicate.
For the first time CSIRO welcomed Australian university applications into the programme, recognising the importance of collaboration and engagement between research sectors in driving Australia's innovation agenda.
"CSIRO is focussed on helping Australia navigate the changes we face, from digital disruption to environmental impact. We need to translate more of our nation's excellent science into solutions that build a better future, and the ON Accelerator is the perfect way to teach researchers and teams how to do just that," said CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall.
Out of eight university applications Curtin University and a combined team from Macquarie University, University of Adelaide and Australian National University were successful in securing two wildcard spots in the next Accelerator.
"As a collaborative and industry-engaged university we are excited about continuing to build integration across CSIRO, industry and university sectors. The CSIRO ON Accelerator provides a framework through which we can extend previous collaborations," said Professor Sakkie Pretorius, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Macquarie University. "It also allows us to look to the future, to generating impact from new future-focused areas in which CSIRO and Macquarie have developed complementary strengths."
From July this year the ON Accelerator programme will be expanded nationally to include all other publicly-funded research organisations, as well as Australian universities, as part of the Federal Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda. Collaboration between research sectors is one of the key pillars of CSIRO's 2020 Strategy, and the ON Accelerator programme strongly supports CSIRO's mandate to use science for a purpose.
"With the ON Accelerator programme we can focus on finding viable opportunities that will not only create economic impact, but provide real social and environmental benefits for Australia," Liza Noonan, CSIRO Executive Manager Innovation, said.
The first round of ON Accelerator featured eight companies, including Anonalytix, a cloud-based technology providing a new approach to data anonymisation; Cardihab, a home-based, smartphone-enabled cardiac rehabilitation model of care that can be delivered by existing healthcare providers, and Graph Air, an environmentally-friendly graphene production process that uses a renewable biomass.
The next round of CSIRO's ON Accelerator programme kicks off on April 26 and takes three months to complete. The 11 winning teams were selected by industry mentors and a judging panel including Dr Cathy Foley, chief of CSIRO's Materials Science and Engineering division, from a group of 25 teams that participated in a challenging and competitive two-day selection Bootcamp held earlier in the month in Sydney.
Facial-recognition technology that could provide accurate, real-time pain assessment for health patients that cannot verbally communicate.
For the first time CSIRO welcomed Australian university applications into the programme, recognising the importance of collaboration and engagement between research sectors in driving Australia's innovation agenda.
"CSIRO is focussed on helping Australia navigate the changes we face, from digital disruption to environmental impact. We need to translate more of our nation's excellent science into solutions that build a better future, and the ON Accelerator is the perfect way to teach researchers and teams how to do just that," said CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall.
Out of eight university applications Curtin University and a combined team from Macquarie University, University of Adelaide and Australian National University were successful in securing two wildcard spots in the next Accelerator.
"As a collaborative and industry-engaged university we are excited about continuing to build integration across CSIRO, industry and university sectors. The CSIRO ON Accelerator provides a framework through which we can extend previous collaborations," said Professor Sakkie Pretorius, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Macquarie University. "It also allows us to look to the future, to generating impact from new future-focused areas in which CSIRO and Macquarie have developed complementary strengths."
From July this year the ON Accelerator programme will be expanded nationally to include all other publicly-funded research organisations, as well as Australian universities, as part of the Federal Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda. Collaboration between research sectors is one of the key pillars of CSIRO's 2020 Strategy, and the ON Accelerator programme strongly supports CSIRO's mandate to use science for a purpose.
"With the ON Accelerator programme we can focus on finding viable opportunities that will not only create economic impact, but provide real social and environmental benefits for Australia," Liza Noonan, CSIRO Executive Manager Innovation, said.
The first round of ON Accelerator featured eight companies, including Anonalytix, a cloud-based technology providing a new approach to data anonymisation; Cardihab, a home-based, smartphone-enabled cardiac rehabilitation model of care that can be delivered by existing healthcare providers, and Graph Air, an environmentally-friendly graphene production process that uses a renewable biomass.
The next round of CSIRO's ON Accelerator programme kicks off on April 26 and takes three months to complete. The 11 winning teams were selected by industry mentors and a judging panel including Dr Cathy Foley, chief of CSIRO's Materials Science and Engineering division, from a group of 25 teams that participated in a challenging and competitive two-day selection Bootcamp held earlier in the month in Sydney.
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