Insights

The bottleneck in university commercialisation is not funding 

More capital has not fixed the leaking pipeline, in the UK or here. The most under-resourced stage is the pre-incorporation work that happens before a company exists.

For research leaders, technology transfer teams and early-stage founders.

We fund the discovery. We abandon the journey.

Australia's latest R&D review, read alongside Canada, the US, Germany and the UK: different bets on the same problem, and one common thread.

For funders, policy makers and research institutes.

We cannot govern what we cannot see 

Australia has 30,000+ publicly funded research projects and no central registry. Horizon Europe association may give us one, by association rather than design.

For boards, funders and anyone shaping the 10-year health and medical research strategy.

The missing layer in Australian research

Venture philanthropy is the most under-explored way to carry discoveries across the Valley of Death, and Australian first movers are already showing it works.

For Executive Directors and boards of medical research charities.