Collaborations between the Public and Private Sectors: The Role of Intellectual Property

The Australian Government aims to double the level of collaboration between business and publicly-funded research organisations (including universities) over the next decade.

The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, requested that ACIP investigate how intellectual property (IP) acts to enable or disable collaborations between PFROs and private sector stakeholders.

The investigation includes collecting evidence of collaboration models between the private and public sectors and experiences that the parties to such collaborations have, including how matters involving IP arise and impact on collaborations.

As part of the investigation, ACIP independently seeks views from:

private sector stakeholders to identify which aspects of collaborations with Australian PFROs work well and which do not.
representatives of publicly-funded research organisations—including the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australian National Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australian Institute of Medical Scientists (AIMS), Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australian universities, medical research institutes and cooperative research centres—to identify which aspects of collaborations with private sector stakeholders work well and which do not.
funders of PFROs, including the Australian Research Council (ARC) and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and philanthropic organisations.

Please address any queries to:

Vera Lipton
Secretariat
Advisory Council on Intellectual Property
PO Box 200
WODEN ACT 2606

Email: mail.acip@ipaustralia.gov.au
Telephone: 02 6283 2830
Fax: 02 6285 1048