Products of the Foundation:

• Members Club which brings together industry, research, financiers and investors to review business opportunities to commercialise products and services.

• Education - Workshops and industry events with topics focusing on trends, industry issues and opportunities around emerging technologies.

• Conferences and members conventions.

• International trade missions to major conferences and regions with the view of continuing to build on networks and foster business opportunities.

• Consulting services in commercialisation and offering solutions options to leverage off industry networks (incubator/accelerators), provide prospectus, IP trading etc.

• Market reports and surveys.

• Technology reports and reviews.

• Media releases and communications.

• Fostering funding for emerging technologies and products into business.

The AETF (Foundation) is a newly formed organization developed to take leadership role to introduce emerging technologies into Australian businesses. Our aim is to develop a conduit for businesses to identify opportunities and commercially driven solutions, using emerging technologies as the Foundation.

Our team brings together a very comprehensive skill set with over 120 years of combined experience trading across most local and overseas industry sectors. The Foundation charter is to provide practical solutions for advance manufacturing and small technology based businesses. Attributes which the Foundation believes will contribute effectively towards meeting the market needs and bringing commercialisation opportunities into a business reality across the sectors of advanced manufacturing, biotech, nanotechnology and cleantech.

The Foundation has demonstrated experience in pioneering methodologies to further enhance small technology capability and capacity of industries. Methodologies which improve global competitiveness and growth of Australian high technology based businesses.

• Uptake of small technologies across a wide range of Australian based industries.

• Further connect organizations with national and international collaborators.

• Further increase the diffusion and understanding of small technologies and its advantages at industry and organizational level.

• Accelerate the commercialization of emerging technologies from Australian based research organizations.

• Assist organizations to translate ideas into commercial products and/or service solutions with global market opportunities or sustainable partnerships.

• Connect businesses with research institutions with the view of developing practical outcomes for small technologies and uptake of leading edge processes and solutions.

The Foundations’ representatives have unique and applicable experiences across many industries such as: Aerospace, Automotive, Medical and Scientific Instrumentation, Medical Devices, Marine, Defence, Biotechnology, Packaging Technologies, Mining and Advanced Manufacturing to name few. Industry exposure which the Foundation believes would add significant value to the program’s objectives by encouraging the uptake of emerging and small technologies across industries.

The Foundations’ representatives have vast experience in international businesses involving emerging technologies and leading numerous international trade missions over a 20 year period. This experience combined with the running of domestic trade events provides the Foundation with a unique depth of experience, which would be of value to successfully manage this program.