$1.6bn research commercialisation program’s false start


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The federal government’s $1.6 billion research commercialisation program has stalled again, keeping universities and researchers on hold for the second time. But an administrative process has revealed the first recipients ahead of an official announcement.

Government documents published this month show at least eight universities will share in $2.5 million in the protracted pilot phase of Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) program.

The bipartisan research commercialisation push was announced 18 months …

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