Industry Laureate Fellowships for funding commencing in 2025

Overview

The Industry Laureate Fellowships scheme creates a pathway to support academic researchers in establishing careers in industry, and industry-based researchers to work in university settings, with the aim of increased two-way mobility and skill-building in research collaboration, translation and commercialisation. The Industry Laureate Fellowships scheme objectives are to: increase the pipeline of researchers in Australia with capabilities in industry-focused and/or industry based research collaboration, translation and commercialisation; open up and maintain a diversity of career pathways traversing university and industry settings; increase strategic engagement and alignment between universities and industry; contribute to the solving of industry-identified challenges and opportunities; and  create commercial, economic and other benefits for Australia through enhanced translation and commercialisation, including the development of start-up companies. The intended outcomes of the Industry Laureate Fellowships scheme are attract and retain, within Australia, outstanding researchers and research leaders of international reputation with demonstrated capacity for industry-focused and industry-based collaboration, translation and commercialisation; deliver significant programs of research that create step-change across a variety of industry settings; provide leadership in the development of high quality and impactful collaborations between university and industry personnel; and provide an excellent research training environment and exemplary mentorship to nurture the development of industry-focused and industry-based collaboration, translation and/or commercialisation skills among ECRs and HDR students.