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(David Bull) Presenting to NICTA

In recent years, the growth of Queensland’s economy has been nothing short of spectacular. Even during a time of global economic crisis, the Queensland economy is set to perform stronger than the Australian national average for the 13th year in a row.

By focusing on supporting industry and innovation through the Smart State initiative, the Queensland government has laid the foundation for a strong knowledge based economy to flourish in the sunshine state. 

As a result of this, Brisbane has been clearly identified as a centre for Biotech excellence in Australia. This was confirmed when the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented Peter Beatie, the ex-premier of Queensland with the inaugural Biotech leadership award at the Bio conference held in San Diego in 2008. Carrying the torch for the Smart State initiative, premier Anna Bligh has continued this legacy of excellence in state funded biotech programs.

BCS Innovations understands the important role that Queensland is playing in Australia’s biotech industry and therefore in June 2009 we established a Brisbane branch office. The purpose of this office is to provide better support to our Queensland customers  giving us a platform to engage with local industry more effectively.

As part of our ongoing commitment to engage with local industry, David Bull, the CEO of BCS, recently gave a talk on the product development process at the University of Queensland. In the talk, David encouraged researchers at the NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory to think about the commercial applications of their research at all stages of the R&D cycle. He also provided valuable advice on how to identify and mitigate the key risks which are commonly encountered during the commercialisation process.
  
In making the move into Queensland, BCS aims to further our partnership with innovators in the sunshine state and therefore encourage more R&D activities in the region. 

The BCS Brisbane office is located in the i.lab incubator in Toowong, one of Queensland’s most successful high-technology incubation centres. 

Contact Details:
Ganesh Shankar (Engineering Consultant, BCS Brisbane)
p 07 3166 9066
m 0412 495 556