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Intellectual property (IP)
Information about Macquarie University's guiding principles
Download IP informationHelping you turn your ideas into reality
As one of Australia's leading research universities, we bring together the best minds in industry, research and academia.
With our team of experts, state-of-the-art facilities and ability to make influential connections, we can help you gain a competitive edge in the market.
What we do
Our team identify and commercialise new technologies developed by our researchers so that businesses, industry and the community can benefit.
Benefits of partnering with us
- Our researchers have been responsible for groundbreaking discoveries and solutions that have changed the world.
- New software, methods, inventions, discoveries and know-how are constantly being created at Macquarie.
- Macquarie University adheres to the National Principles of Intellectual Property Management for Publicly Funded Research.
Macquarie University startups and spinouts
Macquarie University has a strong record of innovation performance. See some examples below.
Modular Photonics
Modular Photonics – a spinout from Macquarie University – is a young, B2B company manufacturing glass-microchip devices that increase data transmission rates and reach in legacy public and enterprise multimode fibre networks.
Our award winning plug-and-play products install in one hour, enabling 1 to 40G data rates at less than 75% of the cost to re-cable to single mode fibre.
MicroBioGen
Established in 2001 as a spinoff from Macquarie University, MicroBioGen is a world-leading biotechnology company with global success in the development of industrial yeast biocatalysts.
MicroBioGen has developed a platform technology that enables us to upgrade the industrial capabilities of the world’s most utilised microorganism – Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This yeast underpins over US$1 trillion in products per year including biofuels, bread, wine, spirits, animal feed, biochemicals etc.
MicroBioGen is successfully partnered with the international biotech company Novozymes, and our yeast products – used for the Novozymes Innova series – are quickly becoming the global industry standard to produce a range of first-generation biofuels.
The Australian Federal Government awarded MicroBioGen with a $4 million grant through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to optimise a yeast for food and fuel production. MicroBioGen has won numerous awards, such as a Macquarie University Award for Commercial Innovation and an Australian Export Award.
HydGene Renewables
Established in 2001 as a spinoff from Macquarie University, MicroBioGen is a world-leading biotechnology company with global success in the development of industrial yeast biocatalysts.
HydGene Renewables is a deep-tech synthetic biology startup which spun out of Macquarie University in 2020. HydGene have engineered a biocatalyst material for converting waste biomass sources to green hydrogen on-site and on-demand.
HydGene license technology initially developed by the founding team with funding received from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).
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