ICT R&D Accelerator Program

From Discovery to Innovation

In the real world, innovation is how companies increase their market share and hold existing customers. Universities play a key role in such innovations. In the ICT R&D Accelerator Program, we recognise the power of combining the industry expertise with the research experience and the innovative ideas of students to solve difficult problems. Swinburne University of Technology and NICTA are offering our R&D capabilities to foster innovations in Victoria.

We are currently offering research expertise to industry partners for short term (three month) collaborations.

How will this happen?

Industry associations are working with Swinburne and NICTA in a trial supported by the Victorian Government Department of Business & Innovation. We will undertake trial projects with a team comprising a proven researcher and one or more students. Both the team and the trial projects will be assessed for suitability by a high level board that will include industry association representation.

The trials will take place during summer 2011/12 and are seen by Swinburne and NICTA as a vital part of road testing our business model, which is designed to provide affordable access to world class ICT researchers and students to companies of all sizes. As such, they will be offered at minimal cost plus a contribution of your time to be part of the team supervising the project.

What can we do for the ICT industry?

Many kinds of project could qualify as trial candidates, for instance:

Build a mobile app
Review and audit of work in progress (risk management)
Problem identification and elaboration (concept definition)
Prototyping (concept development)
Solution architectures.

We offer expertise from a range of ICT disciplines, for example:

Networking
Modelling
Languages
Software Engineering
Testing
AI and intelligent agents
Mathematics
HCI
Data mining
Cloud computing

You can access experts in these areas and who are practised in merging multiple disciplines to solve problems.

Benefits to you

Solve a real problem for your business
Potential tax benefits & reduce real cost
No need to hire expertise – use what you need
Access to high quality graduate students as potential future employees
Small investment for a quality result
Low risk sourcing of skilled resources.

Please Note: These trials and the preliminary work that precedes them are supported by a grant from the Victorian Government Department of Business and Innovation.

Information

Contact Us

Antony Tang - Swinburne University of Technology (atang@swin.edu.au)
Stuart Cole - Victoria Research Laboratory, NICTA (stuart.cole@nicta.com.au)