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Creating and Sustaining Cross-Faculty
Collaboration
27 July 2010
A View from the IE&C Group
Rod Hill
Open Innovation Models of Collaboration
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“Open innovation is a
paradigm that assumes
that firms can and should
use external ideas as
well as internal ideas,
and internal and external
paths to market, as the
firms look to advance
their technology”
Henry Chesbrough, Center
for Open Innovation at UC
Berkeley, 2004
Partnering at Monash
Multidisciplinary research and "Open Innovation" are at
the heart of the major partnerships and alliances
developed at Monash
That is, the partnering of cross-Faculty capability and
know how from industry, other research partners and the
University in an open and collaborative way to tackle the
really big issues that confront business and society.
Obstacles to Engagement across
Organisational & Discipline Boundaries
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Discomfort with unfamiliar ‘vocabulary’ and culture for different discipline
areas, organisational entities and geography
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Personal “ownership” of particular relationships by individuals –
perceived dilution and loss of control
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Assumption that the “size of the cake” is constant – smaller share
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Lack of time to devote to developing the engagement relationship
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Lack of ability to develop and communicate a shared vision and value
proposition that delivers to joint needs
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Project initiation and management is more complex – leading to delays
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University reward structures not closely aligned with ‘Impact delivery’
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ERA has a focus on the individual researcher
Major IE&C Actions to Promote
Collaboration
• Independent ‘Broker/Facilitator’ of the initial dialog
between parties and, perhaps, project leadership
• Development of a framework for Strategic Alliances
• Implementation of a Key Account Management system,
UniSTAR to (i) log BDM activities, and (ii) provide a
platform for customer relationship management
• Organisation point for CRCs, CoEs, relationship with
CSIRO, Monash Business Breakfasts
• Lead for the SE Melbourne Innovation Precinct
Clayton Innovation Precinct
Key strengths provided
by the co-location of:
1.
Australia’s largest comprehensive
research intensive University (with
key international connections);
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Largest CSIRO site (700 staff 
1100 by 2012), with a focus on
materials science & eng, and
medical & health technologies;
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Australia’s only Synchrotron
($230M), with a strong focus on
materials characterisation and
medical imaging;
4.
Australia’s prestigious Teaching
Hospital – Monash Medical Centre –
and proposed new Hospital (700
beds);
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Victoria’s premier hub for light
manufacturing and business
incubation;
6.
The $45M NCRIS Nano-fabrication
Facility
Industry Partnerships:
Aid Research Translation & Technology Adoption  Greater Impact
Translational
research
Basic
Research
Contract
Research
Research
Collaborations
Alliance
Management
Major Partnership Models Take Time to Work
Strategic and
collaborative
research
across priority
R&D areas
Internships
Scholarships
Research
Chair
Chair
Education
Graduates
ARC
Linkage
Grants
Workforce
development
Guest lectures
Commercial
relationship
University
Procurement
Case Studies of Major Relationships
• CSIRO
• ISCRR
• IBM
• Agilent/Varian
• GE
• GSK
New Horizons, Green Chemistry Futures
Engineering + Science
TAC-Worksafe Victoria
Medicine + MUARC
Internships, professional development
IT + BusEco + eResearch
Imaging, Biospectroscopy, Manufacturing
Medicine + Engineering + Science
Medical imaging
Medicine + Science
Production facility, Drug discovery, Mftg
PPS + Engineering + Medicine
Case Study – CSIRO in 2000
Cammeray Waters,
near Woodend, VIC