PD+ has been specifically developed to assist with the Professional Development of Researchers and Research Management/Services professional staff. The series of one-hour live webinars are tailored to assist University personnel achieve better industry engagement and commercialisation outcomes. The end goal is to help prepare staff to access and exploit additional sources of revenue for their institution.
PD+ works on an ‘all you can eat’ model. Your annual subscription gives you as many seats on each webinar as you like for your academic, professional staff and students across your entire institution. Let Campus Plus take care of your professional development obligations, and give your researchers and professional staff the awareness, knowledge and confidence to exploit the opportunities industry engagement and commercialisation can bring to your Institution.
Program Benefits
1 ‘Curiosity Index’ talent identification
2 Popular live lunchtime sessions
3 Fundamentals covered in a 1 hour session
4 All you can eat’ unlimited access
5Access to recordings of all webinars
6 Calendar of webinars scheduled in advance to help with your internal event planning
7 Use of marketing collateral to promote events within your institution
8 Weekly registration and attendance reporting
2024 Topics
IP & Research
- Basic principles of IP
- How to correctly define the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of your invention
- Piggybacking on existing IP - with case studies
- How to conduct a competitor analysis
How to…
- How to increase the impact from your Humanities and Social Science Research
- How to grow your R&D funding
- How to be Defence Ready
- Understanding Contracts
Engagement
- Linkedln for Researchers and Professional Staff
- Identifying Customers, Audiences and Stakeholders for your research and commercialisationHow to improve your Industry Engagement
- How to write a Business Case
- How to improve your Industry Engagement
- Targeted Pitching: how to create a pitch that speaks to your audience
- How to find and manage a successful collaboration
Commercialisation
- Introduction to Commercialisation -
- Identifying and building the commercial potential of your research
- A Marketing approach to research commercialisation (Value Proposition)
- Funding my spin-out - is investment the only option?
- The investor perspective - what are their expectations? + Term sheet info
- Protect your presence at the negotiation table
Understanding contracts
Thursday 12 September 12:00pm – 1:00pm NSW , VIC , ACT , TAS 12:00pm – 1:00pm QLD 11:30am – 12:30pm
Piggybacking on existing IP – some case studies
Thursday 5 September 12:00pm – 1:00pm NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS 12:00pm – 1:00pm QLD 11.30am – 12.30pm SA, NT 10:00am
PD+Health: How and when to engage with Industry – setting up for success
Wednesday 28 August 12:00pm-1:00pm NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS 12:00pm-1:00pm QLD 11.30am – 12.30pm SA, NT 10:00am – 11:00am WA In
If you are from one of the following universities, you have access to PD+. Contact your university to find out how to register for the webinars.

