Australian Venture Consultants was founded in 2002 in recognition of the fact that innovation has become a major, if not the only, source of sustainable competitive advantage in the global economy and that the ability to effectively manage innovation in different types of organisations is increasingly being identified as a distinct managerial skill set.
Since its establishment, Australian Venture Consultants has undertaken a wide range of assignments in the areas of commercialisation of R&D, innovation oriented organisational development, training and professional development and industry development for clients covering an extensive range of organisation types, including:
Multi-national corporations (MNC)
Small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
Venture capital fund managers and other professional technology investors
Universities and other applied and basic research institutions
Start-up and spin-out ventures
Government agencies
Industry research and development organisations
Public policy makers
Industry organisations
Australian Venture Consultants and its consultants have also either led or played key roles in client engagements in a wide range of medium and high technology sectors as demonstrated in the following table.
Process Engineering
Information & Communications Technologies
Life Sciences
Seawater desalination
Remotely operated vehicles
Human genetics
Potable water treatment
Remote sensing
Human drug discovery and development
Forestry equipment
Financial services systems
Human medical devices
Carbon capture and processing
Geophysical data acquisition and processing systems
Human diagnostics
Fabrication systems
GIS systems
Human tissue repair
Minerals processing systems
Robotics
Livestock vaccines
Mining systems
Distributed customer service systems
Livestock diagnostics
Advanced materials science
Networking systems
Livestock breeding technologies
RFID
Livestock genetics
Livestock parasite management
Livestock management systems
Bio-prospecting
Aquaculture systems
Australian Venture Consultants is committed to providing its clients with a consulting experience that is deeply integrated with the client's business, organisational structure and culture and which produces optimal, realistic and implementable commercial outcomes. This is achieved by:
Deploying a highly consultative client engagement process that ensures the consultant thoroughly understands the nature of the client's objectives and challenges.
A rigorous research and analysis process that ensures the issues associated with the engagement are deeply and comprehensively understood by the client and the consultant.
The application of world-best-practice innovation management frameworks to ensure that all options are identified and thoroughly investigated and that optimal, practical and implementable solutions are developed.
The application of world-best-practice project management systems to ensure that implementation achieves results.
