National survey of research commercialisation: years 2001 and 2002: selected measures of commercialisation activity in universities and publicly funded research agencies

This report provides a number of measures of the commercialisation activity carried out by publicly funded research organisations in 2001 and 2002.  It is based on information reported by them in surveys commissioned by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) and conducted on its behalf between October 2003 and February 2004 by the Australian Institute of Commercialisation.  The report presents information provided by all the organisations which responded in 2001 and 2002.  It also presents results for 2000, 2001 and 2002, relating to those 45 organisations which responded to the surveys for all three years, to provide an indication of changes in the level of commercialisation activity over time.  The report benchmarks the level of patenting, licensing and start-up company formation activity carried out by Australia’s universities against that of their counterparts in other countries, drawing on the results of similar surveys conducted overseas.  For the Year 2000, the comparisons related to the United States and Canada.  For 2001 and 2002, some comparisons are also provided with the United Kingdom.  The report also includes a number of commercialisation success stories to illustrate the impact of research commercialisation and to provide an insight into the people and processes associated with it.

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