UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer innovation competition was developed to reward innovative ideas and early-stage research, which have the potential to benefit the community, industry or business as well as generate a financial return. Trailblazer rewards and stimulates innovative thinking with a prize pool of $80,000+ across five universities  from sponsors. 

In 2010 there will five individual competitions open to researchers and students at The University of Queensland, the University of Wollongong, James Cook University, and University of Tasmania, and the University of Technology, Sydney*. Entries from all research disciplines and across all Faculties and Institutes are encouraged, whether they relate to businesses, products, services or technologies. Your entry can be an original or novel:

• Idea
• Concept
• Theory
• Discovery
• Research outcome or
• Invention

The competition, which has been held for seven years, has helped UniQuest motivate and showcase the extraordinary talents of researchers and students. Many previous competition winners are working with UniQuest to turn their ideas into real-world commercial applications. Through Trailblazer, UniQuest hopes to assist university researchers make a significant impact on the world.