Australia
Australia is one of the most exciting regions in the world for technology transfer at present. This isn’t due to a well-established system like those in Europe or the US, nor is it for mega companies coming out from the country. It’s more due to the fact that technology transfer in Australia, a country with six universities in the top 100 of Times Higher Education’s World Reputation Rankings, is only recently beginning to come into its own.
As Matt Barrie, the CEO of Australia-based startup Freelancer.com, put it in a GUV guest comment last year: “With our population of 22 million and labour force of 12 million, there’s no other industry that can deliver long-term productivity and wealth multipliers like technology. Today our economy is hailed by our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, as a “miracle”, but the reality is it’s in the Stone Age. Our gross domestic product (GDP)…
