‘Do the deals’ commercialisers told - KiwiNet

By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - 8 May 2012 ) The recent KiwiNet group hug in Wellington showed the value of having a dealmaker come salesman attitude when it comes to commercialisation.

KiwiNet is the collective commercialisation arms of eight CRIs and universities – combining knowhow and networks and providing an outward facing view for much of our tertiary smarts and ideas.

The May 2 forum was an opportunity to up the networks, and provide practical knowhow.

In this regard, Anthony Francis managing director of South Australia’s Flinders Partners http://www.flinderspartners.com/ (part of the same named university) reckoned there must’ve been a mistake when he was brought in the commercialisation scheme.

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