Research commercialisation: from academia to industry

Описание: Scientist, educator and entrepreneur Dr Erol Harvey has made outstanding contributions to Australia through the world-leading microfluidic
engineering company MiniFAB. In this seminar, he will share insights and experiences from his academic career and consistent work in research
commercialisation and entrepreneurship.

Dr Erol Harvey gained a PhD in Plasma and Laser Physics from Monash University and worked as a researcher in Oxford, UK, before joining his first startup to commercialise laser micromachining.

He returned to Australia to become a Professor of Microtechnology at Swinburne University and co-founded MiniFAB in 2002 where he was CEO until 2018. In 2019 MiniFAB was acquired by Schott GmbH. In 2004 he co-founded the Small Technologies Cluster (STC) as a not-for-profit business incubator which ran the hugely successful Victorian Government Small Tech Voucher Program. STC has evolved to become The MedTech Actuator which he supports as mentor to several start-ups.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) and has served on the boards of Co-Operative Research Centre, university spin-out companies, ARC Centre of Excellence, the NCRIS-supported National Imaging Facility, and membership based Not-for-Profit entities. In 2018 he was the Clunies Ross award winner for Entrepreneurship and is currently CEO of the Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery (ACMD) and Head of Development and Translation at the Bionics Institute Australia.