Making your ideas fly - Event
Entrepreneurial insights from inventor Ric Richardson. Ric Richardson, technologist and independent inventor, will share with the UNSW community his insights and passion about invention and innovation.....

NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY FOR UNSW
The Vice-Chancellor has approved a new Intellectual Property (IP) Policy and associated Guidelines and Procedures at UNSW.

UNSW teams with Intellectual Ventures on new inventions
Invention and innovation company Intellectual Ventures has struck its first agreement with an Australian university-based commercialisation company to progress its goal of bringing more university-bas.....

Open innovation and global invention capital
Applying the world’s best ideas to our most pressing challenges The developed world has experienced an economic and standard of living boom since WW2. Such a period of steady growth is unparalleled .....

Suntech, Silex and UNSW win grant to boost solar conversion
Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, the University of New South Wales and Silex Solar have announced a joint research project to boost the power conversion efficiencies of crystalline silicon solar cells. .....

Firefly protects cyclists on busy roads
Cycling on busy roads at night could become much safer thanks to a new "Firefly" bike light that automatically illuminates a rider when traffic gets too close for comfort. Invented by Univ.....

Breakthrough nanotechnology wins federal funding
NewSouth Innovations has won federal funding to advance market opportunities for a revolutionary UNSW technology that could lead the next-generation of device manufacturing in the solar, electronics a.....

Research-industry alliance pays green dividends
An alliance between researchers, industry, and tech-transfer experts is fast tracking the commercialisation of clean technologies that improve energy efficiency and shrink carbon emissions.

Eye surgery – end in sight for surgical sutures
A slender film made from crab-shell extract could bring an end to the use of sutures for sealing surgical incisions and wounds associated with penetrating eye-injuries.

Funds put bionic eye in sight
Bionic Vision Australia has won $42 million in federal government funding to develop a bionic eye. The bionic eye under development is a small video camera fixed to a patient's glasses. It will capt.....