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Good morning so today I will like to give you an overview it like a 30 second elevator
pitch on what the CSIRO does and how we are structured. I will also talk to you ah about
the SME engagement centre why its set up and what the aims of the centre are and some of
the research & funding programs that we use in SME engagement and there is a finally a
slide at the end on procurement programs and the avenues for CSIRO engagement.
So firstly what are we CSIRO’s Mission - We deliver innovative solutions for industry,
society and the environment through great science. Our Vision - Our science is used
to make a profound and positive impact for the future of Australia and humanity. So therefore
we have a commitment to the Australian people and to the government that supports us, to
provide innovative scientific and technological solutions to national challenges and opportunities
to benefit industry, the environment and community through scientific research and capability
development, services and advice the two words are solutions and advice we are committed
to provide solutions to industry we’re not purely a research institution were there to
help.
So how are we structured, how do we do this, CSIRO operates in a matrix, not the matrix
this is to ensure we have the flexibility that we need to provide the right mix of skills
and the talent for the project means getting people from all areas of the organisation
to form multi discipline teams. CSIRO understands often that the most successful science comes
from crossing boundaries and working in a matrix structure give us the ability to do
this. So what we are doing and what we have is basically a series of inputs and outputs
which in CSIRO terms is sometimes referred to as the right side or left side, essentially
we create capability and that capability is drawn together to provide research opportunities.
The Five major areas there are Agribusiness, Energy, Environment, ICT, Manufacture of Materials
& Minerals, critically ICT as you can see is one of most important ones. I will show
you how that operates.
On the other side, we have created national flagships, flagships are there essentially
to provide some answer to major complex large scale challenges, requiring intricate cross
boundary responses and we focused on areas of major national significance. So each of
the flagships is there to provide answers to what we consider significant national and
international challenges; of course ICT is integral to providing solutions to all of
these national solutions challenges.
So I will talk about the major ones rather than go through them all. Climate Adaptation
flagship – is to enable Australia to more effectively adapt to the impacts of climate
change variability before national planning and regulation investment decisions. Its goal
in Australia is to give practical adaptation options to climate change and variability
and in doing so to create 3 million dollars of value net effort by 2013. The energy transformation
flagship is to develop clean affordable energy and transport technologies for a sustainable
future and create the first steps towards a non carbon economy. The goal of that flagship
is to halve the national greenhouse emissions and double the efficiency of the nation’s
new energy generation supply and end use and position Australia for a future non carbon
economy.
Minerals Down under flagship which I am based at Pullenvale, and a lot of the next few slides
are focused on the Minerals Down Under flagship is there to help to transform the Australian
minerals industry with new technologies and ideas to solve technical challenges that will
be associated with the Australian mining operations in the future. The goal is to assist the Australian
minerals industry to exploit new resources with an institute value of A$1 trillion by
the year 2030, and more than double the associated services and technology sector to A$10 billion
per year by 2015. One of the goals is to double the number of SME’s, technology SME’s
involved in the mining industry.
So let me give you some examples, mining automation, this is probably one of the keys areas that
comes out of Q10, many of you I guess will have dealt with CSIRO previously so you will
know about it…………………………….. its work in communication, automation, sensing
and Telerobotics there are a number of of projects there Landmark Longwall Automation,
Nexsys – real time management of what goes on underground & Machine guidance systems.
Autonomous Systems Laboratory also at Qnet looks for better utilisation of natural resources-
Environmental health. Safety through removal of personnel from hazardous environments so
what we are trying to do the is remove people from dangerous places. Some of the photographs
there at the bottom you can see along the left the long ah drag lines ……. CSIRIO
coordinate the drag operation the cows there with the very attractive collars are virtual
fencing this allows farmers to mange their herds remotely and without the use of fences
so what they the collars around the neck release signals to stop the cows going from particular
areas and allow farmers to track where they are and the ah yellow truck there is an automatic
vehicle designed to carry hot molt.
Sensor Networks - CSIRO is developing sensor networks for environmental applications that
are capable of in-network decision making and actuation (PIC) That boat is on the Wivenhoe
dam and the Wivenhoe dam has a series of sensors which measure environmental variables such
as acidity and salinity, temperature and oxygen in the water. That boat is remote controlled
it is autonomous and it goes around and checks the sensor network each sensor downloads the
information to the centre.
The SME engagement centre we will talk about that next CSIRO has in the past done work
with very large organisations, but it recognises now that more and more of the Australian economy
is driven by the SME sector. At the last count the latest statistics there are 1.5 millon
SME’s obviously a lot of those are single person operations. CSIRO tend to deal with
SME’s with a turnover of 1 million to 100 million in turnover. We are here to solve
SME’s technical issues so if you are a SME and have a technical issue you can’t solve
internally or externally though your service provider and you can find anyone else to do
it. CSIRO is there to try and provide a technical solution. So my role is you to talk with you
as an SME identify what exactly your problem is through technical properties and try to
find a researcher from CSIRO to help you to solve the technical issue. I do that in a
number of ways mainly through putting SME’s in contact with researchers to find research
opportunity, if we can’t find the researcher in CSIRO then we will try to find a researcher
external to CSIRO, through our contact network.
We can also assist you with funding opportunities in principal is to support research and business.
Research and Business provides up to $50K in matched funds from enterprise connect and
ah it’s designed mainly to provide solutions to problems through knowledge transfer to
develop new products and new ideas for SME’s. Secondly is through Australian Growth Partnerships
that is federal money that we get CSIRO will invest and tale equity within the SME and
it provides research grants from $200K to $1Millon it is specifically designed to engage
you with research.
Ok so finally CSIRO Procurement is done centrally either through Canberra principally or done
through Melbourne, because we are a federal government organization it is all done through
AusTender and you can go to the site www.tenders.gov.au . There are a number of opportunities coming
up over the next 12 months if you go on the website you will be able to find them there
and you can also email your details to Enquiries@csiro.au enclose your contact details and any interests
directly to that contact email.
If you are an SME and have a technical gap please come come and talk to me, my details
are at the end of this slide I am more that happy to come out and discuss your issue and
Thank you