Organisation

Centre for Transformative Innovation

Report

Virtual design rights across the world

Formal design rights protection for virtual designs is available in many international jurisdictions. To date, however, Australian legislation has not provided fully-enforceable protection for these designs. This report provides an analysis of the likely Australian demand for such protections.
Report

The impact of design rights on Australian firms

IP Australia commissioned researchers at the Centre for Transformative Innovation to assess the impact of past policy changes and whether Australia’s design rights system is providing incentives for Australians to invest in design. This report outlines the research findings.
Working paper

Why do royalties reign in the market for technology?

It is unclear why royalties are the dominant mode of payment in contracts over the trade of pre-commercial technology. In this paper, the authors evaluate possible reasons for including royalties in a contract using a dataset of 645 contracts.
Report

State of the sector: medical technologies and pharmaceuticals 2017

Australia is one of the world’s leading locations for the development and manufacture of medical technologies, biotechnologies and pharmaceuticals. This report demonstrates that the sector’s economic impact is significant and positive.
Report

Beyond bushfires: final report 2010-2016

This study was conducted to examine the impacts of the Black Saturday and related bushfires of February 2009 on community members’ physical and mental health and wellbeing. The research also aimed to build understanding of the interplay between individual, social and community-level recovery.