Uni South Australia announces its “enterprise hub” which connects to “a range of services that can help you achieve your business goals”

“We’ll work with you to create solutions, explore ideas or build connections,” the site states, with connections for 13 industry categories.

It looks like an answer to the perennial complaint that entrepreneurs with a problem are never pointed towards an academic with an answer when they ask a university.

But it is also based on a research culture shift, set out by DVC Research and Enterprise Marnie Hughes-Warrington, in CMM this morning, there is “no point inventing something if there is not someone to engage with it”, she writes.

And she also deftly dismisses assumptions underpinning research funding models, suggesting the UniSA approach “ means unravelling some of the logic that places discovery before translation, research before education—or the other way around.

“Frankly, all of those linear technological readiness diagrams aren’t the world we live in.”