Australian Business Number

Asian Development Bank

Australian Financial Services Licenceⁱ

Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology

Applied Materials Characterisation & Performance

Order of Australia (merit honour for services)

Australian Research Council

Association of South East Asian Nations

Ten member countries comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos PDR, Myanmar, and Cambodia

Australian Agency for International Development

The Australian Government agency responsible for managing Australia's overseas aid program

UQ Faculty of Business, Economics, Law & Tourism

Consulting & Research division

Climate Change Research Group

Cetacean Ecology & Acoustics Laboratory

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Financial Officer

ARCⁱ Centre of Excellence for Integrated Legume Research

Carbon Dioxide

AusIndustry 'Commercialising Emerging Technologies' fund

The pathway to deriving a financial return from intellectual property; not all innovations can be commercialised - some innovations have enormous intellectual or social value but no marketable value

Revelation of new intellectual property

Libyan Environment General Authority

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Disposing of an investment, generally the selling of shares in a company

UniQuest sources independent, academic experts with experience in legal and insurance cases for providing testimonies, reports, comment, peer reviews, investigations, and chemical and material analyses

Food and Drug Administration, United States of America

Fresh Produce Development Agency

Full Time Equivalent

Geriatric Anxiety Index

Humpback Acoustic Research Collaborations

To make changes or make novel: in the commercialisation context, innovation and technology are used interchangeably to describe an invention or research result that has commercial application

Property rights covering innovations, discoveries, creations or any other original products of a human’s intellect

Aid programs run by the governments of developed nations, non-government organisations, such as World Vision, and international government organisations, such as the World Bankⁱ. They are long-term, multi-disciplinary projects aimed at improving the quality of life in developing communities. In general, projects are designed to enable developing countries to create the capacity for sustainable solutions to their problems

a product of human ingenuity that is both new and of practical benefit

Intellectual Property

UQ Faculty of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering

James Cook University

A contract in which an IPⁱ owner grants a company permission to make, use or sell the IP. Generally there is a licensing fee charged by the owner of the IP and/or a right to a percentage of the profits (royalty stream)

Manager of Innovationⁱ & Commercial Development (UniQuest)

UniQuest Manager of Innovationⁱ and Commercial Development, who provides professional commercialisation services and provides an interface between researchers and the market

Mater Medical Research Institute

New Zealand Agency for International Development

The New Zealand Government’s international aid and development agency

A government granted right for the exclusive privilege to make or sell an invention for a limited period (it also prevents anyone else from doing so). When a patent is granted, the applicant becomes its owner and can sell, licence or mortgage the patent. For a patent to be granted, the applicant must disclose how the invention works. Patents are territorial rights only.

Doctorate of Philosophy

Public Limited Company in the United Kingdom & the Republic of Ireland

Papua New Guinea

A crucial experiment or study which validates the commercial potential of an innovation - for example comparative experiments, testing a hypothesis, constructing a prototype, ironing out technical issues, or engaging a consultant to provide expert industry advice

Prosperous & Sustainable Communities Research Group

Proprietary Limited

Queensland Audit Office

Queensland Brain Institute

A payment for the right to use IPⁱ; generally a negotiated percentage share of a revenue stream

UQ Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

A new, early-stage company formed to raise investment and take a technology to the market

Technology Commercialisationⁱ division

University of Wollongong

University of Queensland Materials Performance

United States of America

University of Tasmania

University of Technology, Sydney

High-risk private equity funding for new high-potential companies

UQ Working Group for Cleaner Production

A source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world, made up of two unique development institutions owned by 187 member countries: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)