Today's guest is David Burt Executive Manager of the CSIRO ON Accelerator, Australia’s largest researcher accelerator ON is Australia's national science and technology accelerator program serving Australia’s 43 Universities, the CSIRO, and other publicly funded research institutes.
David is also on the NSW Committee for Economic Development (CEDA), is a Director at the not for profit environmental organisation Planet Ark and hosts the Good Starts podcast that explores how science is translated into new technology and products.
All of the partners at Main Sequence Ventures were involved in setting up the first few intakes of the ON program and we work pretty closely with the ON team with helping recruit and select researchers and some of the workshops, in the program seems to be going from strength to strength
Give us some background about CSIRO and ON
What has the ON Program achieved?
What are the top / most interesting research projects?
What are the common mistakes you see researchers make when they first join the program?
What is the main takeaway from the ON program if Im a researcher, why is that important?
What's the future for the ON program?
The original Federal Government Budget runs out in May next year and needs to be extended to allow the mission to continue. We will never get the chance again to build a pan Australian researcher program like the ON program.
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