Supporting researchers to develop the confidence, knowledge, skills, and ability to leverage future commercialisation opportunities.
Climate KickStarter is a commercialisation training program, run in collaboration with Australian higher learning institutes and CRCs, that supports researchers as individuals to develop the confidence, knowledge, skills, and ability to leverage future commercialisation opportunities.
We are currently open to delivering Climate KickStarter to new CRCs and research institutes.
Supporting researchers to develop the confidence, knowledge, skills, and ability to leverage future commercialisation opportunities.
Understanding the basics of IP, equity and patents as well as how research can influence policy and industry regulations.
Getting into the mind of the customer and understanding the problem they are trying to solve.
Understanding and communicating the value a researcher’s work can offer their first customer base.
The Climate KickStarter Program has been developed in alignment with the Australian Federal Government’s University Research Commercialisation Action Plan. Understanding that “research leads to the development of new technology and knowledge which, if commercialised and diffused through the broader economy, can raise returns on investment, lead to new industries being established and create jobs and economic growth,” Climate-KIC Australia, alongside the RACE for 2030 CRC and the Future Battery Industries CRC, saw an urgent need to build commercialisation capability in Australian research institutes, to build markets for clean technology research and diffuse clean technologies into the market in Australia.
The aim of the program is to quickly develop commercial thinking within proven learning-frameworks to allow participants to see, start to understand and act on maximising the real-world, commercial impact of research-based projects.
Australian universities and research institutions have a strong track record of discovery and innovation, but Australia trails behind other global innovation ecosystems in translating research outputs into long-term commercial opportunities.
Australia ranks last in the OECD for business collaboration on innovation with higher education or government institutions.
Through 5 years of delivering clean-tech innovation programs, we know that researchers have incredible insights and novel technologies that need support to get out of the lab into the market. The Climate KickStarter courses are capability-building opportunities for researchers to explore the basics of IP, equity, and patents and how research can influence policy and industry regulations or become a commercial success.
The Climate KickStarter Program has been developed in alignment with the Australian Federal Government’s University Research Commercialisation Action Plan. Understanding that “research leads to the development of new technology and knowledge which, if commercialised and diffused through the broader economy, can raise returns on investment, lead to new industries being established and create jobs and economic growth,” Climate-KIC Australia, alongside the RACE for 2030 CRC and the Future Battery Industries CRC, saw an urgent need to build commercialisation capability in Australian research institutes, to build markets for clean technology research and diffuse clean technologies into the market in Australia.
The aim of the program is to quickly develop commercial thinking within proven learning-frameworks to allow participants to see, start to understand and act on maximising the real-world, commercial impact of research-based projects.
We are currently accepting new CRCs and research institutes to partner with us to develop commercialisation capability in research students. If you are interested in finding out more about how we can work together, please reach out.
