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Rail Innovation Australia is a new innovation partner for today’s rail industry.

The company can act as a partner in the management and utilisation of innovation and technologies for rail industry companies, including:

  • Identifying and licensing-in of valuable intellectual property and technologies matched to the strategic development needs of an organisation
  • Bringing together intellectual property, capital, resources and supply chain players to ensure market success for new products or technologies
  • Structuring projects, negotiating agreements and creating win-win situations for participants
  • Managing projects and monitoring commercialisation arrangements to ensure benefits are delivered to project participants

The competitive advantages a company will gain by using Rail Innovation Australia services include:

  • Cooperative network established with industry organisations and research providers
  • Access to resources, intellectual property and research expertise of network members
  • Access to intellectual property and technologies developed overseas
  • Expertise in:

- Cooperative and open innovative business models

- intellectual property arrangements and transactions

- technology valuation

- cooperative deals and agreements

- management of R&D and commercialisation projects

Customers and Benefits

RIA’s priority is its customers and the company can assist customers in:

  • Licensing-out and monetising the intellectual property developed but not used by an organisation
  • Converting ideas and intellectual property into products and technologies, assisting with resources and expertise
  • Improving chances for success of new products involving customers in the development activities
  • Building a company’s sustainable advantage leveraging internal intellectual property portfolio with external ideas and solutions
  • Shortening the development time and increasing return on R&D investment for organisations

Contacts

Dr Anna Thomas
General Manager
Rail Innovation Australia Pty Ltd

Voice: (07) 4923 2029
a.thomas@cqu.edu.au
Fax: (07) 4923 2161


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