Innovation ecosystems, partnerships and collaborations

Our students can help you identify and evaluate innovation partnership opportunities across start-ups, corporates, universities, and technology providers to access external capabilities and accelerate innovation.

Your project may focus on: 

• Innovation ecosystem mapping with collaboration opportunities, or
• Partnership evaluation framework for your priorities, or
• Analysis of potential innovation partners, or
• Collaboration model recommendations (e.g., investment, licensing, co-development), or
• Partnership governance and IP management guidelines 

The specific focus will be determined through initial discussions about your innovation strategy and partnership objectives. 

Ideal for:

• Companies seeking to access external innovation 
• Organisations building open innovation programmes 
• Businesses connecting with start-up ecosystems 
• Firms developing university-industry partnerships 
  

Students offer fresh perspectives informed by current academic knowledge. Projects are completed as part of their learning and provide exploratory insights rather than professional consulting advice. 

When you express interest, we will evaluate if your specific project is compatible with the academic knowledge and capabilities of our students and our course learning objectives. 

If your project is accepted, it will go into a queue to be allocated to a student or student team. 

Projects are completed during our academic semesters or quarters, with students spending 8-10 weeks working on the project.